The entire concert by Oblachny Krai at the "Podolsk - 87" festival is included in the special gift CD-DVD box sets featuring the festival's recording. "Podolsk - 87", which earned the unofficial title of the "Soviet Woodstock," was organized and hosted by the staff of the illegal samizdat publications "Zombie" and "Urlight" under the cover of the magazine "Yunost" on September 11-13, 1987. This unique event featured bands from fifteen cities across the USSR, from Riga to Novosibirsk, including DDT, Nautilus Pompilius, Zoopark, Kalinov Most, Brigada S, Televizor, Veselye Kartinki, Oblachny Krai, Khronop, Tsement, Obekt Nashmehk and other iconic groups. Most of the participating bands were at their creative peak, and many delivered the best performances of their careers. The eight-disc audio release features performances by seventeen rock bands.
For a long time, it was believed that video and audio recordings of those events were either lost or in a condition unfit for release. Some footage was available online, but it was incomplete and varied drastically in quality. However, after five years of meticulous work gathering and restoring the material, one of the leading Russian independent labels, Geometria, has released special gift CD-DVD box sets of the festival. The "Podolsk-87" release is timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the event and will be issued in a limited edition of 999 copies. For many, this will be the first opportunity to see the historic performances of Televizor and Nautilus, discover talented bands of that era who never achieved widespread fame, or simply watch Egor Letov dancing with unconcealed pleasure to the performance of the Estonian punk band J.M.K.E.
Each of the five discs in the video release presents a video chronicle of the respective festival concerts. For the DVD release, frame-by-frame synchronization of the analog video with the soundboard audio was carried out.
The materials for these releases were gathered piece by piece over five years, underwent careful restoration, and have finally been presented in a worthy design.
The tracklist for the audio version of the Podolsk rock festival differs from the video version released on DVD, as some songs captured on the soundboard recording were not preserved on video.
Only 999 numbered copies of each box set went on sale.
Below is a short excerpt from this box set: