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The article examines the links between Russian Avant-garde poetry of the early 20th century and Italian Experimental poetry of the second half of the 20th century. Although the Avant-garde poetic trends in these literatures developed in parallel, the Cubo-Futurists laid the foundations for a linguistic experiment that had a significant influence on Italian experimental (and especially Neo-avant-garde) poetry. In addition, the theoretical works of the Formalists were of great importance to the Italian Neo-avant-garde. Among the main achievements of the Russian literary Avant-garde and the Formalism, which proved to be consonant with the reforms of the Italian Neo-avant-garde “Group 63” and the circle of poets close to it, are the principles of the revolutionization of language, the concepts of “word as such” and “zaum” (lit. “transrational language”), as well as “defamiliarization” and “deautomatization”. The article discusses in more detail Vladimir Mayakovsky’s key techniques and concepts related to the “making” of poetry, the increasing role of linguistic pragmatics and experiments with new media, which have been both theoretically understood and practically developed in articles, homage poems, video poems and other works by such Italian poets, as Elio Pagliarani, Alfredo Giuliani, Eduardo Sanguinetti, Adriano Spatola, Gianni Toti, etc.