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Chapter 7, Part 1: 'The Arkhangelsk Rock Club. The 1987 Rock Festival.' – 'Preparation'
By the beginning of 1987, the Arkhangelsk Rock Club had firmly established its existence. Songs approved by the literary director could now be performed at concerts that periodical...
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Chapter 7, Part 2: 'The Arkhangelsk Rock Club. The 1987 Rock Festival.' – 'The kick, the snare, and the voice – that's what matters!'
And so, the hour struck, and the action began. Literally from the very first minutes, the hall did not quiet down until the very end. It's hard to believe, of course, but Arkhangel...
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Chapter 8: 'The Booze Run'
Oleg Rautkin lived with his family in Ukraine and visited them periodically. Every time, we celebrated the occasion by throwing a proper farewell party. Upon his return, we would o...
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Chapter 6, Part 2: Stremya and the People. 'A double coffee for Kinchev and a handful of change for a beggar'.
The main task remained: to find our dear Oleg Yuryevich Rautkin, who, as usual, spent the summer drifting across the vast expanses of our country, and tracking him down was a real ...
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Chapter 6, Part 1: The Drive and the People. 'Shevchuk's Portwine, BG's Guitar, and Sologub's Bass'.
Chapter 6, Part 1: The Drive and the People. 'Shevchuk's Portwine, BG's Guitar, and Sologub's Bass'. - Photo 1As I had expected, the recording of “Ubluzhya Dolya” made an impressio...
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Chapter 5, Part 2: Andrei Tropillo Records the Band "Oblachny Kray". - "Ubluzhya Dolya".
Every day, the city of Leningrad continued to surprise me with its unusual people and new unforgettable impressions. Huberman took me under his cultural wing and, after the recordi...
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Chapter 5, Part 1: Andrey Tropillo records the band "Oblachny Kray". - "Two Liters of Cinzano".
…By the spring of 1984, the situation of our collective had become quite pitiful. We had visited every cultural institution in Arkhangelsk in search of a space for recording and re...
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Chapter 4: "The Chukcha from the Organs"
Итак, к моменту наступления 1983 года в творческом багаже нашего коллектива значилось три альбома самых первых: OK-1, OK-2 и Великая Гармония. За это время мы конечно несколько уже...
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Chapter 1, Part 2: The Oblachny Kray of the Konstantin Kinchev Era. "A Detailed History of the Famous St. Petersburg Vetka from a First-Person Perspective".
Part Two – "So, what have you guys got in your backpacks?"
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Chapter 1, Part 1 Insult on Duty.
This was back in the late 80s, around the winter of '88-'89. The band Alisa invited us to Leningrad for a return visit—a year prior, we had hosted them as guests of honor at a rock...
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Riding the waves of the Soviet press. OBLACHNY KRAY. SEVERNAYA LEGENDA. 1987
This is how the musicians of "Kray" classify their own work: for some reason, 7 "albums" circulated in Moscow instead of 5. Most likely, this is due to the fact that the first two ...
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Chapter 3: How "Oblachny Kray" Got Wasted with the Band "Aquarium".
In January 1982, a band from Leningrad came to visit us in Arkhangelsk. Until then, they were unknown to us—a certain group called "Aquarium". We were maximalists, and it seemed to...