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About the product “Each generation has its own Leningrad-Petersburg — it slowly and unswervingly falls into the swamps from which it grew. He still exists, and he is no longer there. » «Leningrad Time» is a story about the life of a musician, writer and sportsman in Soviet Leningrad. A firsthand story, very personal, but at the same time it is a sketch of an entire era. Vladimir Rekshan opens Leningrad to the reader, in which he happened to be born and spend his youth, having caught all the changes taking place in the city. Together with the author, you can walk along the authentic streets of Soviet Leningrad, meet Ringo Starr on Mayakovsky Street, learn how to sell your manuscript to a Soviet publisher, and how to get to an expensive restaurant without a queue. You will read the history of the legendary cafe «Saigon», where representatives of the Leningrad golden youth of the 1980s gathered, and you will discover for yourself, thanks to whom sound recording appeared in our country. Vladimir Rekshan is a musician, writer and journalist, the founder of one of the first rock bands in the Union: the Leningrad band «St. Petersburg». The book «Leningrad Time» written by him in 2015 is published by the publishing house «Bombora» with new chapters and an insert with photographs from the author’s personal archive. Annotation There are legends about Leningrad in the 1960s-1980s. It was a great time of the flourishing of underground culture, the time of communal apartments and the notorious shortage, the book boom and the cult of sports. Rapid changes swept the country, and it was Leningrad that became the center of these changes. The author of the Leningradskoe Vremya publication, rock musician and writer Vladimir Rekshan, recreates the former surroundings of his city, recalling with trepidation and subtle humor the most interesting details of Soviet youth and maturity. A whole epoch has fit into the pages of the book. In this Leningrad, Viktor Tsoi, not yet known to the world, walks the streets, and in the Saigon cafe you can meet Joseph Brodsky or Sergei Dovlatov. Here the merchants sell jeans and hard-to-find rock records, and in the Filatelist store they sell Chinese stamps for almost nothing. Vladimir Rekshan shares his memories of Leningrad, where he was born and raised. «He is, and he is no longer there.» This book is about a disappearing city that has become modern St. Petersburg; about its details, curiosities and heroes of their time. …
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