Leningrad Rock Club

On March 8, 1981, the Leningrad Rock Club was founded in the "house of folk art ." It was the first such club in the Soviet Union and became the cradle of Russian-speaking rock music.

The Rock Club had a room with about 200 seats and was not a venue in the Western sense, but rather a mixture of culture and house musicians union. The club in the Rubinstein -Straße 13 had a " Soviet " and special rooms for the employees of the KGB, the Soviet Communist Party and the Komsomol.

In 1983 the Leningrad Rock Club organized an annual festival, the first program denied the groups cinema, Alissa, telescreen, Pop Mechanika and other groups that are now counted among the classics of the " Russki Rock".

Later, it was officially announced that in the early years of the KGB club has controlled. The state wanted to create a place where he could control the youth culture. But the nomenklatura unintentionally created the headquarters of the approaching democratic revolution. In the rock - club young, talented musicians came from all over Russia, the stars are like Yuri Shevchuk, Vyacheslav Butusow and many others today. The Leningrad Rock Club became the most important, because only official Auftrittssort today popular groups such as DDT, Akwarium or Auktyon.

The " Russki Rock" as received its decisive impetus not in Moscow but in Leningrad. In contrast to Moscow, which had strict monitored and censored the civil liberties as capital (eg Bulldozer Exhibition, cleansing for the Olympic Games in 1980 ), the Arts in Leningrad could develop freely. In the later 1980s here first played international bands like the Scorpions.

In the early 1990s joined the Leningrad Rock Club its doors because he could not stand against the emerging competition in the form of commercial rock clubs on the Western model.