About the book: 2024 / Anton Soya is a Russian writer, poet and rock producer. He was a producer of the groups “Brigadny Podrak”, “MultFilms”, “Kukryniksy”, “Bashakov BAND” and the solo album of Mikhail Gorshenev. Author of the cult satirical song “Pops”. In 2004–2005, he collected and published an anthology in 10 volumes, “Poets of Russian Rock.” The author of more than 30 books, the most famous of which is “EmoBoy.” “The collection of essays, articles and works of art under the general title “Leningrad Punk” is not an objective and full-fledged study of this multifaceted subcultural phenomenon of the 80s of the last century, which originated and died in cultural capital of the totalitarian USSR. This is just a subjective attempt to dig superficially into this almost untouched fertile layer, an attempt to tell and show you what I saw with my own eyes, to tell you about my comrades, Leningrad punks, who lived bright, scandalous, short lives and left us a legacy of their screaming , irrepressible and uncomfortable creativity. Of course, I couldn’t write about everyone. There were probably a number of other cult characters and interesting punk bands in Leningrad that I simply did not meet. I hope that someone will tell about them.” Anton SoyaThe essays “Lenpunk” and “Pig” were used to create the catalog for the exhibition “Punk Culture. The King and the Jester" commissioned by Planet Bureau9.