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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.

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TaMtAm Rock Club documentary for German television (1993)

This German television documentary captured one of Russia's first Western-style punk clubs, TaMtAm, founded in 1991 by Akvarium's Vsevolod Gakkel (1953-) after his visit to New York's CBGB.

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The meaning of pluralism on “Vzgliad”

A conversation about pluralism between Evgeny Dodolev (1957-) and Alexander Liubimov (1962-), after an expose on chemistry lecturer and anti-glasnost activist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020).

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Homosexuality in Soviet Prisons and Camps

An article published across two consecutive 1993 issues of the weekly magazine Novoe vremia (New Times, in print 1943-2017), in which Russian LGBTQ activist Slava Mogutin and American LGBTQ activist Sonja Franeta detail the history of homosexuality in the Soviet penal system.

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You Can't Teach the Left-handed to Be Right-handed

A 1990 article from the weekly newspaper Argumenty i fakty (Arguments and Facts, in print since 1978) in which journalists seek comment from sociologist and psychologist Igor Kon (1928-2011) on the topic of homosexuality.

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Valery Pereleshin

A 1992 piece on the gay Russian émigré poet Valery Pereleshin (1913-1992), with excerpts from his verse cycle Ariel.

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