Taras Kulakov

Taras Vladimirovich Kulakov (Russian: Тара́с Влади́мирович Кулако́в [tɐˈras kʊlɐˈkof]; Ukrainian: Тара́с Володи́мирович Кулако́в, Tarás Volodýmyroyč Kulakóv), better known as CrazyRussianHacker, is a Russian-American youtuber of Ukrainian descent. He produces videos on "life hacks", scientific experiments (or in other terms: science experiment demonstration, science demonstrations), testing, with the catchphrase "Safety is number one priority." His YouTube channel, "CrazyRussianHacker", created in 2012, has over 2.79 billion views and 11.4 million subscribers (as of April 2020) and is one of the platform's top 500 channels. He also has a second YouTube channel, "Taras Kul", with over 3.7 million subscribers (as of April 2020). His third YouTube channel, "Kul Farm" has 368,000 subscribers (as of April 2020).

Kulakov was born in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) to a Ukrainian father and Russian mother. He has been a swimmer since 1996 and joined the Ukrainian Olympic team as a professional swimmer.

In 2006, he moved from the city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine to Asheville, North Carolina with his family, where he worked at Walmart until 2012 while developing his early YouTube channels.

In a Q&A video, he clarified that the last place he lived before moving to the United States was the city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine where Russian is the majority language. As he grew up speaking Russian and not knowing much Ukrainian, he considers himself Russian.

He has two brothers and three sisters as stated in his September 2016 Q&A video. He also claims to have a half brother and a half sister as well.

He is currently living with his wife Katherine and his pets: two Siberian Huskies named Luke and Hugo, an Alaskan Malamute named Gus, a Dalmatian puppy named George, two Nigerian dwarf goats named Jeff and Joe, a white umbrella cockatoo named Gamma, and a blue iguana named Albus. He also is a beekeeper and has cows and chickens as well.

On December 25th 2019, he and his wife welcomed a baby girl, Alice, into the world. With Katherine posting on her instagram (@epicsquared) a photo with baby Alice and a caption that reads "I always said that baby would come on New Years but Baby Alice chose Christmas Day instead. Is it possible to love your baby too much? I never want to put her down and I just want to kiss her all day. Taras held her and kissed her today and I got so jealous."

Kulakov is a very active YouTuber, releasing a video per 1–3 days. As of May 2020, he has over 11 million subscribers for his CrazyRussianHacker channel. His videos range from life hacks to chemiluminescence in action. He is known for his sense of humour and Russian accent. He created his first channel, "origami768", on October 14, 2009, for origami tutorial videos. Later, he renamed this channel to "Taras Kul", which he uses as a second channel, and currently has over 3 million subscribers. His second attempt at YouTube fame came with "SlomoLaboratory"later renamed "Slow Mo Lab", alongside his brother Dima. His popularity skyrocketed with his third channel, CrazyRussianHacker, in 2012. In 2014 he started another YouTube channel, where he posted gun videos.With the new YouTube community guidelines starting mid-2017, he saw himself forced to delete the gun content. He renamed this channel to "Kul Farm" and has regularly been posting videos about his pets for his 371 thousand subscribers on this channel.

In one of the experiments on his CrazyRussianHacker channel, Kulakov demonstrated the unique properties of ferrofluid by interacting it with oil infused nano-scale iron oxide particles. The video also highlighted the magnetic fields created by the neodymium magnet.

He is in a television program called The Laboratory With CRH; it airs on TBD. The Laboratory With CRH first aired in July 18, 2018. Many of his videos feature product demonstrations under the auspices of scientific experimentation.

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