Viktor Tsoi. In His Own Words. A Book of Interviews. 1983-1990

The book collects both well-known and lesser-known interviews of Viktor Tsoi with Soviet mass media — television, radio, newspapers, and magazines — as well as underground publications Roksi and RIO from the period of 1983 to 1990. The book also includes transcribed video interviews and press conferences, conversations of Viktor with the audience, responses to notes after concerts, and some archival photographs. The interviews are accompanied by comments from the author and compiler. This year marks a jubilee. Tsoi would have turned 60 years old. Tsoi is no longer with us, but Tsoi lives on, and KINO has confidently stepped into 2022 with us... And now, more than ever, it is necessary to remind what Viktor thought and said about various issues and to introduce a new generation to the wide range of topics and problems that concerned the leader of the band 'KINO' in that already distant, yet still so close time. Vitaly Kalgin, author and compiler. Vitaly Kalgin is a Russian journalist, musician, writer, and music critic, a researcher of Viktor Tsoi's work and the band KINO. From 2010 to 2022, Kalgin authored a dozen books about Viktor Tsoi and the KINO band, thus earning, in the opinion of journalist Evgeny Yu. Dodolev, the title of the country's leading Tsoi expert. In addition to writing books, Kalgin served as a consultant for the documentary film by Evgeny Lisovsky and Alexander Tsoi — Tsoi — KINO, Channel One, 2012, and was the author and compiler of the text for the anniversary digibook Tsoi-50, released by Moroz Recordz. Fragments of Kalgin's book The Last Hero of Modern Myth laid the foundation for the screenplay of Kirill Serebrennikov's film Summer. In 2020, Vitaly Kalgin took part in preparing two documentary projects: the film by Alena Yegorina and Nikolai Rogozhin Tsoi-2020 and the film High Star in the Sky Channel One. Since 2019, he has been the host of the largest author channel dedicated to the KINO band on the Yandex Zen platform. In 2022, at the request of Alexander Karmaev, Agniya Sterligova, and the Planet9 bureau, Vitaly Kalgin served as the chief consultant for