How it was №1 25.04.1998 (1998)

Video chronicle: "Kvartirnik": Yuri Vizbor sings to the guitar.

Nikita Mikhalkov is among the audience.

On March 20, 1967, the city of Petushki turned into the center of the cultural dissident movement opposing the existing regime - the first conference on the problems of amateur song, organized by the KSP (amateur song club), was held in the Vladimir region.

Video chronicle: The generation of the sixties.

Performances of bards at the Polytechnic, "kvartirniks": Ada Yakusheva, Yuri Kukin, Yuli Kim.

Igor Karimov talks about the history of the origin of the abbreviation KSP, explains why Petushki was chosen as the place for the first KSP conference.

Answers a question about the origin of the "devyatnashki".

Vladimir Turiyansky and Igor Karimov recall the first KSP conference and its participants.

They talk about the provocative content of the songs that were performed there.

Video chronicle: Novosibirsk.

March 8, 1968. Song Festival at the House of Scientists.

Performance by Anatoly Burshtein.

Performance by Alexander Galich.

Alexander Gorodnitsky talks about the consequences of Galich's first public performance, which became resonant in the playwright's career.

About Galich's influence on the KSP and the authorities' attitude towards the Club.

About the politicization of the KSP songs.

Video chronicle: Vladimir Vysotsky performs a song with a guitar.

Audio recording of the song performed by Yuri Vizbor (the video sequence contains photographs of the bard).

Sergei Nikitin talks about the generation of the 60s.

About the author's desire to put his attitude to the phenomena that had a deep impression on the poet into the content of the song.

Sings in the studio with his own accompaniment.

The program participants recall absurd stories when denunciations were written against bards performing songs based on poems by famous poets such as Shakespeare, Lermontov, etc.

Vitaly Medyantsev (from the audience), a participant in the KSP meetings, tells how the authorities closed the Moscow club.

Vladimir Turiyansky performs a song accompanied by a guitar.

Igor Karimov shows off a windbreaker trimmed with the emblems of the KSP meetings.

Vadim Egorov and Sergei Nikitin perform the song "I Love You, My Rains".

Viktor Berkovsky and Sergei Nikitin talk about the difference between the genre of author's song and the amateur song club movement.

Video clip: Grushinsky Festival 1997 (from the archive of the program "Vzglyad").

Viktor Berkovsky performs a song dedicated to the participants of the Great Patriotic War.

Alexander Gorodnitsky, Sergei Nikitin discuss the role of modern author's song, its legacy, and the KSP movement abroad.

Video chronicle: Bulat Okudzhava performs the song "Hopes' little orchestra".

The participants of the program, together with the audience, perform the song.