In the 1980s, Moslenta became aware of a way to live for free in the capital from an interview with the artist and author of the book “Punk Type” Misha Buster. He remembered the creative spaces in abandoned Moscow apartments.
“In the late 1980s, the center of Moscow was resettled, and it was possible to easily open someone’s huge empty mansions, stay in them and do something. There, even gas with electricity were not blocked in some. And so subcultural people got the hang of penetrating into such apartments and lived in the center for years. Nobody really drove them, it was quite easy to negotiate with the zheks and district police officers, ”said the hero of the interview.
According to Buster, squats appeared in such places – spaces arbitrarily seized by representatives of subcultures. The largest of them was located on Petrovsky Boulevard, where a courtyard of several houses was occupied.
Previously, the “punk” places in Moscow were named by the leader of the Bakhyt-Kompot group, musician Vadim Stepantsov. The most striking rock club of the end of the USSR, in his opinion, was the Sexton establishment in the Airport area.
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