Poet, critic, translator. Born in 1896 in the territory of the Don Host. In 1912, he moved to Vladivostok, where he graduated from gymnasium and entered the university. He published in local newspapers. In 1922, he left the university and went to Prague. He took an active part in the activities of the Czech avant-garde: Konstantin Biebl, Karel Teige, Jaroslav Seifert. In 1926, they published Skachkov’s only collection, Music of Motors. In the same year, Skachkov left for the USSR, where he became a professional critic and translator, executive secretary of the Moscow City Committee of Writers, and political editor at Glavlit. In 1932, he was arrested and exiled to Solovki, and in 1937 he was executed in Sandarmokh.