Viktor Tsoi is a cult figure for lovers of rock music, the leader of the Kino group, author and performer of songs, has played in several films. Despite the fact that the singer died more than twenty years ago, for many fans, Choi is still alive. And on June 21, Russia celebrated Viktor's fiftieth birthday.
Of course, the main events were organized in St. Petersburg. It was here that the musician was born, lived and was buried. Tsoi's grave is always a place of pilgrimage for admirers of his talent, and on the singer's anniversary hundreds of people gathered here, holding candles in their hands and bringing flowers.
The Kamchatka Club on Blokhin Street was created from the former boiler house where Viktor Tsoi worked in the eighties. On June 22, a day after the anniversary of the former fireman, this rock club hosted a performance where popular bands and little-known singers performed the compositions of the deceased star.
The State Hermitage Symphony Orchestra and ex-Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan also performed the band's favorite songs at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg. This musical program was created by them two years ago and was performed on the twentieth anniversary of the car accident in which Viktor Tsoi died.
In early June, the photo exhibition "A Star Called Tsoi" opened on Malaya Sadovaya Street. All exhibits were made by the photographer Sergei Bermeniev at one of the last concerts given by the Kino group. The works were done in black and white and filmed with a primitive camera. On June 21, the State Russian Museum received one of Viktor Tsoi's photographs as a gift from the author.
The celebration of the singer's anniversary was not without incidents. Near the Kamchatka club in the midst of the holiday, unknown people scattered leaflets to the crowd of fans who at first decided that the action was planned by the organizers and began to catch the flying booklets, and then hung out a banner with the inscription “Tsoi is dead”. According to the signature on the leaflet, the action was carried out by the anarchist party “Narodnaya Dolya”. Police officers on duty near the rock club rushed in pursuit of the hooligans, but they were never caught.
