Novosibirsk authorities did not allow Diaghileva's fans to make a memorial plaque

The rector of the Novosibirsk Conservatory and the Novosibirsk City Hall Commission refused to erect a memorial plaque in honor of the poetess and rock musician Yanka Diaghileva.

The commission’s decision states that Diaghileva was “a talented aspiring poetess, but her activities were of a local generational nature and were known in a certain social environment,” reports Sib.fm.

“Firstly, I knew the rock environment of that time quite well. And there is just an unfortunate child, very gifted, I don’t argue with that, but he hasn’t really managed to do anything yet,” explained rector Konstantin Kurlenya. “Secondly, to me It’s very strange that the protest rock movement has degenerated to such an extent that it is beginning to ask the authorities for official perpetuation. Why then wasn’t there a plaque for Yegor Letov or one of the other guys who passed away one after another? Imagine if Yanka was alive? and they told her that they wanted to put up a board for her. I think she would have sent everyone to hell.” In addition, the wooden house on Yadrintsevskaya is destined for demolition, he added.

Fans of Diaghileva wrote an appeal to the Commission for Naming and Placing Objects of Monumental and Decorative Art at City Hall. They asked to install a memorial plaque on a residential wooden two-apartment building at Yadrintsevskaya, 61. Members of the initiative group promised to pay for this. Later it turned out that the house chosen by fans would soon be demolished.

Rock singer, poetess and member of the Civil Defense group was born in Novosibirsk in 1966, drowned in the Inya River under unclear circumstances in 1991.