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