Explore: Year » 1993

Ivan Maximov’s logo for the video game console “Dendy,” 1992

The logo of a young, anthropomorphic elephant giving the victory sign with his left hand announced Russia’s first game console, Dendy, which became enormously popular between 1992 and 1996. 

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A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times

A piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Мальчишник

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Philosophy at the Margins

A series of philosophical and theoretical texts from Russian and international authors published by Ad Marginem, meant to bring the latest in global thought into newly opened post-Soviet minds.

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An Online Babylon: Vavilon.ru

Vavilon, or Babylon, began as a loose group of young poets brought together by Dmitry Kuzmin in 1988. In the post-Soviet years, the group's almanac, and then website, became a driving force behind some of the most innovative poetry of the 1990s.

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