50 years since the birth of Egor Letov

Marks exactly half a century since the birth of the poet and musician Egor Letov - he was born in 1964 in Omsk, in the 80s created the "Civil Defense", originally consisted of a single, but then turned into one of the fundamental groups of the "Siberian punk." In the 90's doing solo projects, and disbanded again going to "GO"; wrote more than a thousand songs for their musical projects - and it is with them and their special, nothing on similar poetics remains a major contemporary Russian poets. Without the "rock" - write it only in figures of the music scene means to neutralize the enormous impact that has had on the national culture, this man, who died in 2008 at the age of only 43 years.

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