From rockers to bikers: photos Moscow late 80s Petra Gall

"Motorcycle tours of a lifetime" - is preparing to release a book and an exhibition that will be revealed in the Night of Museums on 17 May. All photos taken German journalist Petra Gall at the turn of 1980-1990's.
Presenting your attention the photos of the project "Motorcycle tours of a lifetime" - is preparing to release a book and an exhibition that will be revealed in the Night of Museums on 17 May. All photos taken German journalist Petra Gall at the turn of 1980-1990's, commented on their project supervisor Mike Buster.




1. Dancing near the cafe "Margarita" at the Patriarch, in a strange way still works. Patrika in 1980 and so were advanced enough place, but since I moved to Valery Lysenko (hedgehog) from "Mister Twister" has become associated with rockabilly-party. Many have done for this printed on the photo Mauritius Slepnyov - papanintsev grandson and son of a ballerina, famously danced at concerts, "Mr.". And then he got sick and maketh motorcycle caper already driving around Pushkin Square underpass. We called this shift "pipe».



2. By the end of the 1980s, when it died down a clash between rockers and Lubero - they even wrote New York Times, - on the Arbat street who just does not povylazili. Including Hare Krishna appeared that his awkward appearance and bubnezhkoy bother others as much motorokerskie gang.



3. Typical Arbat picture perestroika era, preserved to this day. These tables chiefs-dolls and other kitchuhoy the end of the 1980 nesting near a crowd of street artists. And it was like a facade, because there was a brisk trade deficit: foreign things, magazines, vinyl.



4. Sheremuha aka Bulb: Sheremetyevo-2 was a traditional place of pilgrimage for the night rocker columns, which was launched with a backyard Theater, or to Luzhniki. The purpose of the visits was to show themselves, and foreigners scare. Plus, be sure to visit there the cafe. The route to the airport is often passed through Badaevsky brewery in the morning and ended at the exit of the restaurant of the hotel "Moscow". There, paying 1 p. 50 kopecks., Motorcyclists carried from a buffet helmets, brim full of food.



5. Prior to the advent of special units for catching rockers traffic cops on motorcycles hooligans caused in a frank laugh. They could not keep up with the motorcycle, drove embarrassing, well, look, let's say, far less fashionable than motogaishniki helmets and leggings 1960. Aesthetics slack in the years on many fronts.



6. Backyard Moscow Art Theater. Gorky - a place that has become popular in 1987, when the local fashion guys sat on the motorcycle and created an isolated party. In contrast to the concert-rocker associations to cultivate heavy metal, it is as if contrasting, favored style of rockabilly and inspired the movie "Streets of Fire».



7. In 1987, Peter Gall met in Moscow with surgery (Alexander Zaldastanov - founder of the motorcycle club "Night Wolves"), Ed (Edward Ratnikov - President of the concert agency TCI, on the left), Roos (Ruslan Tyurin - the founder of the motorcycle club Black Aces, on photo) and Garik (Assa, Oleg Kolomiychuk - the character of the Moscow underground, died in 2012). She immediately got into the epicenter of the biker movement. In this picture you can see that outfit and Ed Roos combines the aesthetics of street racing in London 1960 and the submission of motobandah uryvochnye America 1950. Guys want to look the coolest, like in the movies and on the covers of foreign magazines.



8. The Night Ratnikov dumplings. This unforgettable places, which together with the kebabs and the sandwich passed under the generic term "risers." At night there we boarded rockers and taxi drivers, day - employees and visitors.



9. Another photo of the "stanchions". In one of these, on Herzen Street, trainees got Arbat Lyuber Bumblebee, who was looking for the mythical fascists, but instead they found us, punks, and fed the free dumplings. After the collapse of the USSR was renamed the Bumblebee Dumplings and not finding the Nazis, he became himself, adhered to some Black Hundreds in the early 1990s.



10. Night center Moscow at the end of the 1980s, shot during some regular Motorcycle tours with a stop at Gorky Street for hot, just brought from a factory in Filippovskiy bread bakery. Now this deserted Moscow plunged into darkness with winding streets remained extremely locally. Together with the mixed smell of wet asphalt, and poplar pulp, with strange passers-by, because it's not strange to chop off another feat of labor, it can safely be called "Moscow that».



11. Near the monument to the Kaluga area skaters were first introduced in the early 1980s - at the Riga "rulah" and suburban boards. After 10 years of strong rock wave of restructuring theme is back, but in a different fashion. Wide trousers - pipes and pyramids, heavy boots and overalls swept against the background of the Soviet frozen in stone idols.



12. Sasha surgeon morally humiliates Lubero met by chance on the gun. A turning to rock movement when sharply increased persecution of all non-formal and appeared Lubero. It was a collective movement under the auspices of the Moscow Region Bodybuilding Lyubertsy. Bodybuilders went to Moscow before, but frankly do not engage in social pressure. But those who are mowed at Lubero, practiced small gop-stop full swing, for which there were otovaritsya. Sasha in this process played an important role, but despite the fact that the collision and Lubero rockers overgrown with legends such meetings often ended in sparring and comic numbers.



13. Night motohuliganov leaving the spring of 1989. These gangs in the spirit of the movie "Mad Max" They rushed through the deserted streets of the city, after removing the silencers from their "YaV", "chezetov" and sometimes "Dnepr" to "Ural". The weight of his Moscow rockers were ordinary guys who are more advanced called "telogreechnikami." By 1988, the movement has become so popular and noisy, that the Soviet Union began to shoot them kinostrashilki like "Crash - the daughter ment».



14. In contrast to the previous Gothic: here the exaltation of "Luzhniki" in 1989 - the Festival of Peace. Despite a subsequent large-scale festival "Monsters of Rock" 1991 World Festival remembered as the peak of the 1980s. This atmosphere was not even on the first local Uriah Heep concert and Pink Floyd. In Moscow, brought top stars, including Ozzy Osbourne, and for some reason put on a stage with them from the pool of the Moscow nyuveyverov Stas Namin.



15. This is probably the 1992 th. Difficult to establish, since the 1990s rocker biker theme completely replaced with heavy motorcycles, fork length and the first Russian bike clubs. The photo - Tanya (Eremeeva. - Approx. Ed.), A friend of the founder of one of the first motoobedineny "Sossacs" Oleg, who is also President Kim Il Sung (Oleg Goc. - Approx. Ed.). In the early 1990s he was able to travel abroad and bring a more or less modern "Harley».



16. The end of the 1980s, the gallery - as they called Dvor hang out there dudes. Dilapidated, graffiti scribbled Gothic-decadent piece of Moscow Empire, filled with legends of the cellars of the KGB. In those years, absolutely deserted area of ​​Moscow, where the ominous silence was destroyed only some dull rhythmic sound from the unit, who worked in the yard gostinka.

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