Bob Dylan in the USSR: People, Places, Events

A unique perspective on the figure of the legendary musician through the context of Soviet times. The publication is especially enriched by the memories and stories of direct participants of those events—thanks to that, the book becomes a valuable find for fans of Bob Dylan and for everyone interested in the history of music and cultural diplomacy.

Kirill Razumov is a journalist, blogger, and researcher of popular music. He gained recognition for interviews with representatives of the modern music scene and the entertainment industry: among his interviewees are singer and writer Joanna Stingray, author and biographer of ABBA Carl Magnus Palm, Queen’s tour manager Peter Hince, as well as the founder of Uriah Heep Ken Hensley. He runs the “Sea. Music. Tourism” channel on YouTube and on Yandex.Zen, and is part of the YJA Association of Yacht Journalists.

Kirill Razumov’s book “Bob Dylan in the USSR: People, Places, Events” is devoted to Bob Dylan’s visit—a key artist of our time, musician, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature—to the Evening of World Poetry at the “Luzhniki” in Moscow in 1985, as well as his trip around the Soviet Union. The author describes Dylan’s stay in Moscow and Tbilisi in detail, weaving this story into a picture of late Soviet life before perestroika, and tells about notable representatives of the cultural and political elite who crossed paths with the musician.

Most of the information collected in the book was obtained by the author through independent research and was previously published nowhere.