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Cultural layer: VKontakte
Book, movie, cartoon, songs and videos about the largest social network on the Runet and its creator
Book, movie, cartoon, songs and videos about the largest social network on the Runet and its creator.
Songs
In 2010, the online publication VKurse held a competition to create a “VKontakte anthem,” inspired by a recording of the “Mail.ru anthem.” The songs of the four finalists became popular among social network users for some time, but never made it beyond the social network.
"VKontakte", Max MC
"Pasha, add", Yura Kolodyn
"Destination Contact", Kakhaber
“Anthem VKontakte”, group “Heroes”
Promo video
In 2011, the St. Petersburg studio Fruktoza, on its own initiative, shot a video about VKontakte for the song Melancholy Astronautic Man by singer Allie Moss.
The performance
In 2013, young Perm director Alexander Yugov staged the play “Contact” about the virtual life of young people on social networks. The play was written by Yugov himself, based on authentic interviews with real teenagers aged 14-16 years.
A book
In 2013, Nikolai Kononov’s book “The Durov Code” was also published. The real story of VKontakte and its creator." There was an ambiguous attitude towards it in the RuNet, but the rights to the film adaptation were promptly purchased by Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Films.
Later, the director of the film about the Odnoklassniki social network, Pavel Khudyakov, made a statement that he would also direct the film about VKontakte. Meanwhile, amateur trailers began to appear on the Internet - for example, the work made for a book trailer competition on booktrailers.ru was widely distributed.
Cartoon
A little of the fame of the founder of VKontakte went to the symbolic “Durov’s Dog”, which not only appeared on the cover of Kononov’s book, but also received its own fans and its own history.
Art project
A series of videos “A Man Like Durov” was released in support of the founder of VKontakte after the incident with the white Mercedes.
A game
Teaser for a non-existent game about Pavel Durov and VKontakte.
Clip
In March 2014, the video “Pasha Durov” by the group Gvozdi was released. Within five days of its publication on YouTube, the video collected 20 thousand views.
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