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Tusovka Music Journal (Samizdat) (Draft)
A central zine of the Siberian underground music community. One of Tusovka's central feats was duping the KGB into allowing the continuation of its publication and dissemination. Before the first issue went to print, the journal's founder Valerii Murzin took the bold step of delivering the pre-print manuscript of the journal to his local KGB office, in this way guaranteeing the publication's survival.
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An “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club
This official “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club was completed by Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) of the band Pop Mekhanika sometime in the 1980s.
Leningrad Rock Club at 13 Rubinshteyna Street, Leningrad/ St Petersburg.
This St. Petersburg graffiti wall, which commemorated the Leningrad Rock Club, survived for two decades until its 2010 erasure by the building’s new owners.
The World Made of Plastic Has Won
Yegor Letov (1964-2008) performs his song “Moia oborona” (My defense), during his “concert in the hero city Leningrad,” part of Grazhdanskaia oborona’s 1994 tour Russkii proryv (Russian breakthrough).