Born in 1960. Served in the army. He worked as a turner, a locksmith - a repairman, a digger, an operator of CNC machines, a dryer at a paper factory, a chief editor of a book publishing house, a bookseller. Debut publication - short story "Labyrinth" (almanac "Yenisei", 1984). In 1990 he published the author’s collection “The Road of the Worlds”. Principal in the work of Kudryavtsev is the collection "Black Wall" (1995), which included the best stories of the author and became classics of domestic fiction stories "Black Wall" and "Labyrinth of dreams".