Graffiti with Yegor Letov was painted over in Omsk

Graffiti with the leader of the cult Siberian punk group "Civil Defense" Yegor Letov was destroyed in Omsk. The portrait of the musician with a cytese signature from his song “Great and Eternal”, which was recently painted on the support of the anniversary bridge, was painted over the workers of the municipal institution.

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On July 29, the “New Omsk”, the paint was applied not to the entire area of ​​the support of the anniversary bridge, but only to the area where Graffiti with Yegor Letov was located. Why they painted a portrait of the musician, the publication does not specify.

One of the novels of the film “Omsk, I love you” is dedicated to Letov, for which graffiti was created. “Which of us did not sing in the courtyard, entrance, basement, this song of the“ Civil Defense ”group, but then we did not go into the meaning of the text and subtext, and working on one of the short stories, we discovered the personality of a cult musician again.”

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"New Omsk" director of the painting by Dima Galdin.

Later, journalists found out that the drawing painted the worker of the municipal institution of Omsk. “I saw graffiti. This is an unauthorized drawing, ”said Galina Zurnadzhan, director of the BU“ Operation of external improvement facilities ”. - Nobody agreed with us, especially since obscene expressions were already signed next to him. And everyone comes and prescribes something, adds. I [workers] sent them to eliminate unauthorized inscriptions. ”

In 2014, the wife of Letov Natalya Chumakova presented in Novosibirsk the documentary “Great and Eternal”, dedicated to the dead to the musician and “Civil Defense” in 2008.