Russian Rock. History. Photographs. Interviews. Documents

The author of the album book Joanna Stingray – an American singer, actress, music producer, and public figure, one of the significant figures and popularizers of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Joanna visited the USSR many times in the 1980s, lived in the country for long periods, and was acquainted with iconic Soviet rock musicians – Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoi, Konstantin Kinchev, Sergey Kuryokhin, Garik Sukachyov, Vyacheslav Butusov, collaborating with them. She meticulously documented everything that happened, taking thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of video footage: concerts, rehearsals, interviews with musicians, artists, producers, and journalists. Now this unique material is an invaluable testimony to the historical process of the formation and development of Russian rock and the Soviet art underground during its most fruitful golden period. All materials in the book are published for the first time.