Yanka Dyagileva was born
September 4, 1966
Yanka Dyagileva, a poet and member of the punk band "Civil Defense," was born in Novosibirsk.
From a great mind there is only a bag and prison, From a rash head there are only ditches and trenches, From a beautiful soul there are only scabs and lice, From universal love there are only bloody faces
She was born into a family of engineers. She studied at a music school for a year, but piano didn't work out for her, so she dropped out. She wanted to play the guitar and attended classes at the club at the Fat Factory. At school, she disliked the sciences, but she respected literature. She devoured Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, and Gumilev. She was an excellent essay writer.
The first rank of declassed elements, They must be given everything first class. Their first year in the school of life will be prison, And by the eighth grade they will be posthumously accepted into the Komsomol.
In 1984, she entered the Institute of Water Transport Engineers. She dropped out in her second year. In 1986, her mother died of cancer.
I repeat ten times and again: Nobody knows how dick I am And the TV is hanging from the ceiling, And nobody knows how dick I am
In 1987, she met Yegor Letov. A few months later, she recorded her first album, "Not Allowed." In the summer of 1988, she performed on a major stage for the first time, at a punk festival in Tyumen.
If we succeed, we won't return to the cage until nightfall. We must be able to burrow into the ground in two seconds, so that we can remain lying there when the gray cars drive over us, taking with them those who couldn't and didn't want to wallow in the mud.
From 1988 to 1990, she toured extensively with "Civil Defense." In Leningrad, Alexander Bashlachev's producer, Sergei Firsov, helped them with recordings and organizing concerts. Yanka's last performances took place in the fall of 1990.
To die commercially and publicly, To break a photogenic face against stones, To ask for a human look into the eyes of kind passersby, Oh, my death is sold
On May 9, 1991, she left her dacha and never returned. A week later, her body was found in the Inya River. The cause of death—accident, murder, or suicide—remains unknown.
You will be a ray of light,
Born in the shadows,
Or a shadow that gave birth to a ray?