Born on December 24, 1972 in Izhevsk
Pedagogical education, geographer
He began his career in 1993.
Has been in business since 1995. He was the director of a garment factory, the director of a management company in the housing and communal services sector, the owner and head of a wholesale and retail trade enterprise.
He has been participating in the socio-political activities of the city of Izhevsk since the mid-1990s. In 2002, he ran for the City Duma of Izhevsk, in 2003 for the State Council of the Udmurt Republic.
In 2005, he won the regional elections to the City Duma of Izhevsk.
In the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, he successfully works as the head of the electoral headquarters of the “Rodina” Electoral Bloc in the city of Izhevsk.
From 2003 to 2009 – head of the Regional Branch of the Political Party ROS – Russian People’s Union (leader – Baburin Sergey Nikolaevich)
From 2003 to 2008 – assistant to a deputy of the State Duma from the “Rodina” bloc.
He was a member of the Political Council and head of the regional branch for SD of the all-Russian public organization RONS (Russian National Union), recognized in 2011 as an extremist organization, whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vremya Izhevskoe, which had a circulation of 10,000 copies.
He was elected a member of the Council – the governing collective body of the All-Russian Association of Fans.
He dealt with the problems of the historical heritage of the region and the functioning of the housing and communal services of the city of Izhevsk.
He became the only politician in Udmurtia who announced the genocide of the Udmurts in the Russian Federation.
For the first time in the history of Izhevsk, in 2007, he achieved the adoption of the Municipal Program for the 90th anniversary of the Izhevsk-Votkinsk anti-Bolshevik uprising – a legendary example of Russian resistance to the red terrorist dictatorship. On the initiative of V. Kryukov in Izhevsk, the “Public organization for perpetuating the memory of the Izhevsk-Votkinsk uprising “Izhevsk Zavod” was created. On her account – the installation of monuments, memorial plaques, the publication of books, work with youth.
Since 2006, he has been subjected to pressure from the authorities for his political and social activities. Criminal case against V. Kryukov under Art. 318-319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation lasted 900 days from 2006 to 2009, and was terminated in the Court of First Instance. But the Prosecutor’s Office of the UR appealed against the termination of the Criminal Case in the Supreme Court of the UR. The decision of the First Instance was upheld by the Supreme Court of the UR without change.
The presentation of the book “From the Kama region to Primorye” was disrupted by the FSB three times.
In 2010, the Electoral Committee refused to register V. Kryukov as a candidate in the elections.
Since 2011, he has been prosecuted under Art. 282, for organizing a picket by V. Kryukov on 12/14/2010 on the Central Square of Izhevsk.
On April 25, 2011, he was put on the federal wanted list, after which he was forced to illegally leave the territory of Russia.
In November 2011, he applied for political asylum in Germany, which was granted in November 2014, after a personal appeal by V. Kryukov to the Federal Chancellor of Germany A. Merkel,
In 2012, V. Kryukov was included in the Federal List of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.
While in Germany, he continues active information work. From 2011 to 2018 he was the sole editor of the RONS website.
On the issue of Russia’s war against Ukraine, he takes an active anti-war position. At the very beginning of March, he proposed to declare the creation of an analogue of the Russian Liberation Army.
Has three children (daughter Irina, sons Ivan and Nikita).
Hobbies are football and hockey.