Yuri Khoy is a real surname. What caused the death of Yuri Khoy, the lead singer of the Gaza Strip

The biography of Yuri Khoy is mirror-like the biography of every Soviet informal. Yuri Khoy (Klinskikh) was born in Voronezh, July 27, 1964, in the family of an ordinary one hundred and twenty ruble engineer.

Yura studied disgustingly at school, preferring unnecessary mathematics, and without school lessons yard guitar concerts for those who are very familiar with the Russian language.
Considerable importance in his later life learned other lessons - my own father, in love with Russian poetry, and who did not realize himself in rhyming, managed to pass on both his passion for it and knowledge to his own son.

After school, the biography of Yuri Khoy also followed the standard path for a C-grade student: the future singer, who barely received his diploma, went into the army, and when he returned, he first worked as a traffic police inspector, and then got a job at an ordinary factory, of which there were a great many in Voronezh at that time. Material wealth mattered little to him - then he would have remained a road guard. And he didn’t care about his career - they don’t build it in factories.

"" - the group he created - was born almost simultaneously with the Voronezh rock club. Its name has a secondary connection with Palestine. Then everyone heard this phrase, because the eastern conflict was talked about non-stop on television news, and local residents they named the Gaza Strip the Voronezh industrial zone, on the territory of which the rock club was located. The team's fame came in the dashing nineties, when the policy of glasnost aroused enormous interest in everything that had previously been forbidden. Informal Russian expressions became especially appropriate, becoming an integral part of the Russian folk rock anthems written by Hoy. Three-story obscenities and obscene themes were right at home. Music businessmen even signed a contract with the group, but never made any money from it. But the team achieved wide fame.

Contrary to the established popular image of a loner rebel, Yuri Khoy was firmly married to Galina Klinskikh, and their marriage gave birth to two daughters - Irina and Lilya.

Actually, this is where the biography of Yuri Khoy ends. People spread various rumors about him tragic death- as if he had been in an accident, or he had been brutally killed. Apparently, I wanted to focus attention on the premature death of my beloved idol. By official version he died of a heart attack. There is information that Hoy took drugs and fell ill with hepatitis, which became the real reason of death. In one of his songs, he prophetically sang: “The Gas sector - you won’t live to be forty here.” And he did not live 23 days before his thirty-sixth birthday.

Who is Yuri Klinskikh, how did the Gas Sector group appear, and what influenced the premature death of musician Khoy?

“Here you won’t live to see forty” - a line from Yuri Khoy’s song, which became a reality for him - the musician died at the age of 35. To love or not to love his work is everyone’s business, but the popularity of this author of obscene poems can easily be compared with the fame of Tsoi. On the birthday of the leader of the Gas Sector group, we remember how his fate turned out, how he became famous and why his life ended.

How did you live?

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Yuri Klinskikh (Khoy is a pseudonym) was born in Voronezh into an ordinary working-class family, his parents worked at a steel mill. During my childhood, I didn’t let go of the guitar, but I didn’t particularly like school; I paid much more attention to music than to my lessons. Later started write texts in which he raised different taboo topics, but still decided not to deviate from the social course customary for that time - he served in the army and went to work in the traffic police, and then at a factory. The first performances, solo by the way, began in the late 80s in the first city rock club, which was located in the local industrial zone. It was in honor of this urban area that he named his group “Gas Sector”. The group appeared in 1987, but was not popular - they performed only as an opening act for visiting musicians. Gradually, in an already collapsing country, Khoy’s obscene songs began to resonate in the hearts of listeners. And the band’s records began to appear in kiosks.

How did you become famous?

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After the tapes reached Moscow, the Gaza Strip began collaborating with the first commercial company in the USSR. record company"Gala Records". And in 1994, the team released the opera “Koschei the Immortal”. Music education Klinsky, like many rock musicians, did not have, and this did not stop the group from releasing 13 studio albums. The group performed a lot, went on tour, was listened to, but it did not bring significant money to the musicians. It's interesting to watch creative development Hoya. So, the leather jacket was replaced by a shirt and a suit, and there was less obscene language in the songs, but by that time the group was already so popular that the fans accepted it in any form.

Who did you meet?

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Yuri’s personal life, no matter what anyone said or hyped about it, was quite simple. Khoy had a wife and had mistresses. One of them, Olga Samarina, became the closest of all, and he spent time with her. most time - essentially nothing special. Why did he like this particular young lady so much - no one will say, but is it even possible to answer such a question? She is the one accused of drug addiction of the leader of the Gas Sector.

How did you die?

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The ambulance that came to the call could no longer help Yuri Khoy and only recorded death from a heart attack, and many people who knew the musician simply did not believe it - he did not have heart problems. There were suggestions that alcohol and drugs were slowly killing him, so some blame Samarina for the singer’s death, since she allegedly influenced his addiction. True, before his death, the singer told all his family and friends that he had given up drugs. The police did not conduct any investigation - law enforcement officers did not find any traces of crime.

Otherworldly forces are also blamed for death - Hoy mentioned vampires and witches in songs. Hoy dedicated his latest, 13th album “Hellraiser” to various evil spirits, and relatives say that he died trying to record last song for this record. But this explanation seems completely ridiculous.

“It’s probably better to live without having anything... You become free, like an animal, like a bird... The sky... A lot of time for creativity...” Yuri Klinskikh.

His mother Maria Kuzminichna was a housewife, and his father Nikolai Mitrofanovich Klinskikh was an engineer who worked at the Voronezh aircraft plant. Yuri was not the only son of the Klinsky couple; he had two older brothers. Since childhood, Yuri grew up as a smart and inquisitive boy, interested in everything he could see. At school, Yuri did not stand out for anything special, he studied with C grades and took home “failures” for his behavior. In his certificate of secondary education there was only one “B” in work. Yuri often did not go to his first lessons, but stayed at home late with books. He was honest and tried never to lie.

The older brothers introduced Yura to music from a young age; rock and roll could often be heard in the Klinsky house. All three brothers besides Soviet music listened The group Beatles and Deep Purple - first on records, then on reels. Father taught youngest son to poetry, the study of literature and the rules of versification. He himself wrote poetry all his life and published, but without much success. The lessons given by Nikolai Mitrofanovich later manifested themselves in the rollicking songs of his son, which, despite the “ugliness” in the opinion literary critics, the content had “impeccable style and style.”

If Yuri’s father helped with the syllable, then vacations in the village, where Yuri often went for the whole summer, helped with the content. Another source of inspiration for Yuri was horror films - first Soviet, such as "Viy", then - any that could be obtained on cassettes. Hoy learned to play the guitar in school and composed his first songs at the same time.

Its part was stationed in the Far East. Shortly before serving in the army, he met his future wife Galina. Without any incidents, Yuri served in Blagoveshchensk as a tank driver and was demobilized in 1984.

After the army, Yuri went to work in the traffic police, but did not fit in with the police. “To work in the police, you need bad person be. There are, of course, normal people there, but they don’t belong there,” Yuri later said. He himself always loved speed and cars, tried not to fine drivers who slightly exceeded the speed limit, and felt sorry for people from villages. At the same time, he did not like to fawn over his superiors. One day, Yuri stopped the mayor of Voronezh, who was driving through a red light. And to the question: “Do you know who I am?”, he answered that he didn’t want to know. Another time he stopped an important priest, and both times he got into trouble. In addition, Hoy could never fulfill the plan for fines assigned by the traffic police management. Three years of working in the police were real hard labor for him.

For the last few months of his service in the internal affairs bodies, Yuri served in private security, counting the days until his new demobilization. As Nikolai Mitrofanovich later recalled, Yuri barely worked his last day at the police station, came home, took off his uniform, threw it on the floor and began to trample it with his feet. Having finished what he considered to be a bad job, Yuri worked as a milling machine operator, a CNC machine operator at Videofon, and a loader. IN free time he wrote songs and played guitar. He bought a Volga and almost crashed it on a Moscow highway somewhere near Tula. Yuri sold the car restored after the accident, and after that he tried to stay away from domestic car brands. Among his next cars were a red diesel VolksWagen Golf III and a white Daewoo Nexia with power accessories and air conditioning.

In his free time from part-time jobs, Yuri watched mystical films or horror films, played billiards and studied music. In the period from 1981 to 1985, he recorded the acoustic album “Years Pass Like a Moment...” on a tape recorder. And when a rock club opened in Voronezh, Yuri became a regular. At a spring concert in 1987, he played for the first time several songs that he began writing at the same time - in February and March. As Yuri later said, he did not like the poverty of the themes of amateur groups and he decided to enrich the rock club with his participation. “I wrote my first poem at school, I remember something about spring. Then, before the army, I learned to play the guitar and tried to do something. But the songs were primitive, about love, all that little stuff. Then, when I returned from the army, I worked at a factory and didn’t think about anything. When the rock club opened, I looked at the amateur groups, I didn’t like their poor themes, I remember they sang something about peace, about love, about something incomprehensible. I decided to shake off the old days. And since I already had experience, I began to do quite well. Everyone liked it, and that’s how it all went…” Yuri later said.

Yuri sang solo at the club or invited someone. On December 5, 1987, he assembled the first lineup of his “Gaza Strip” and sang the songs “I am scum,” “Crazy Corpse,” “Drowned Man” and “Collective Farm Punk” on the stage of a rock club. “I never considered myself a punk...” Yuri said.

At first, “Gaza Strip” performed as an opening act for groups that came to Voronezh, such as “Zvuki Mu” and “Children”. The name “Gaza Strip” was a “mysterious combination” for Yura and, at the same time, its Voronezh reality. In his childhood, it was heard because of the Arab-Israeli confrontation, which was often talked about on the radio. And in Voronezh this was the name given to an industrial zone with a large number of factories and smoking chimneys, and a corresponding criminal atmosphere, where a rock club was located. In general, it was easy for Yuri to come up with a name for his team. According to him, it was "a local name for a band that had no intention of going beyond the urban rock club6a." Subsequently, the composition of the Gaza Strip underwent many changes throughout its existence, but the soloist and leader of the group always remained alone: Yuri Khoy selected people for himself.

Two years later, by 1989, the group recorded two “cassette” albums - “Plows-Woogies” and “Collective Farm Punk”. The quality of the recordings was terrible, and they were sold exclusively in Voronezh. The team's breakthrough was the album "The Evil Dead", released in 1990.

Many works, especially from the early songs, were autobiographical for Yuri. The songs “Java” and “Ment” were written after Yuri left the sobering center, and the songs “Yadrena Vosh” and “Took the Blame” were dedicated to his brother. At that time, Yuri himself tried to “seduce” himself and “ lyrical hero" - "a kind of monster in smelly socks, who suffered from all known sexually transmitted diseases and developed impotence." He said what to sing about human vices does not mean to approve of them. For Yura, such songs were, rather, some kind of in a special way fight them.

Hoy never considered himself a classic “punk”. “Perhaps at the beginning of creativity, pure “punk” was visible here and there,” he said in his interviews. Basically, Yuri did what he personally liked, without being attached to the style. And indeed - in musically his albums were quite varied. Yura himself defined the style of his team as “fusion”.

We were born with swear words, we live with swear words.
We learned with swear words, and with swear words we will die.
We ate the matershin with mother's milk.
With obscenities, my dad hit my mother with his fist.

Role models and favorite music for Hoy were Western groups- Rage Against The Machine, Biohazard, AC/DC and Alice Cooper. IN last years Yura was influenced by heavy rap with its blues, clear rhythms and rock guitars, and throughout his career he loved punk and death metal. In an interview, Yuri said: “Gaza Strip” is not even a group, but one of my projects. Even now I cannot say that “Sector” is a group. This is more of a live lineup, because I always work alone in the studio. And since 1992, I have been inviting Igor Zhirnov, guitarist of the Rondo group. I’m not at all a supporter of changing musicians, as, say, BG does. If someone left, it was only of their own free will. The main thing in a team is that the person is not a jerk. After all, sometimes a tour can drag on for several weeks or even more. And to be next to someone like that - no, sorry.”

The nickname “Khoy” clung to Yura immediately and quite firmly. In general, this exclamation was then used by many performers - from Venya D'rkin to Yegor Letov, borrowing either from Oi! British cockney music, or from BG’s philosophies, but only Yuri Klinskikh made it a pseudonym. “Hoy, the month is new! Hanging – nailed!” said Venya D’rkin. As Yuri himself said: “Hoy” is just an exclamation, I often say it during songs. The fact that it reminds someone of Tsoi (with whom Yura was personally, albeit occasionally, acquainted) is an accident.” However, in the last years of his life, Yuri began to use the pseudonym less “so that there would be no problems with traffic cops.” Otherwise, they’ll stop him, and he’ll say, “What are you guys talking about, I’m the lead singer in the Gaza Strip.” And they - “You’re lying! Hoy is singing there.”

After the success of the albums “The Evil Dead” and “Yadrena Vosh”, which Yuri sent to Moscow with the help of his friend, the group began performing at various parties, but Yuri quickly got tired of it. "When we reached big stage, then a person who had previously worked only with “pop” and who began to feel sick at the word “rock and roll” began to work with us,” Yuri Khoy said in an interview.

Yuri did not want to move to Moscow, “a depraved city of insolent youth,” although he took advantage of the opportunity to record at the Mir studio. His recordings were published by one of the first Russian labels - Gala Records. Yuri began to have legal concerts, and with him - concerts of fake "Khoys" in cities. Yuri himself did not like to “shine” and deliberately supported the growth of rumors and legends about his group. Due to the huge sales on cassettes, everyone knew his group, but most of the audio media were released by pirates. Hoy did not complain, he lived from the interest that Gala Records paid him after the sale of rights in Moscow, official releases at Black Box in Voronezh and numerous concerts. “I’m not ashamed of my city, I’ve lived in it all my life, and I’ll most likely die in it...”, said Yuri.

During creative activity The group toured many cities in Russia and abroad - in Belarus, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and Estonia. The albums were released in 1994, then were re-released by Gala Records in 1997.

“Press the Gas” and “Collective Farm Punk” were also published in 1991 and 1993 - already on CDs and the same cassettes. In 1991, at his concert in Moscow, Yuri met Olga Samarina, whom he subsequently met in the last years of his life, without hiding this from his wife Galina.

The popularity of the Gaza Strip group grew very quickly. It is known that Vladimir Zhirinovsky was delighted with the songs of the Gaza Strip, and the apolitical Khoy “reciprocated” the leader of the LDPR, but for money. Yura did not have his own political preferences, sending all politics “...to hell. With a gimlet!

Political system he was quite pleased because he had the opportunity to earn good money from his talent. “It makes no difference to us who we play for; we are far from politics. If Zhirinovsky pays, we play for Zhirinovsky; if another faction pays, we’ll play for them,” said Yuri Khoy. However, Hoy believed that if he had to get stuck as a loader, then, of course, he would be dissatisfied with the government.

Everyone says: everything is very good in the West.
Whoever says this to me like that, I will crush you into powder!
Everything that is Soviet is good - cars and pants,
Everything may be expensive, but it’s all ours, boys.

As their popularity grew, Hoy's songs became virtually folk music, music of demobilization, vocational school students, students and rural youth. Zhlobrokgroup - this is how the Gaza Strip was often ironically called - a group that Hoy himself compared to porn, and which was not accepted by either rock or pop music. Even Yuri Nikulin liked the group’s work. After Yuri Khoy played a concert at the Nikulin Circus, famous artist invited young man to your dressing room. Amid words of admiration and gratitude, Nikulin took out a bottle of cognac and invited Khoy to talk. The artist himself was so flattered by these compliments that he often told his friends and relatives about this incident.

Yuri Khoy's songs amazed listeners with their frankness. He opened the deepest hiding places with surgical precision human soul, which were not talked about in the USSR. His work aroused either deep interest or protest from the audience. The artistry of the group leader and only live performances were the opposite of the concerts of performers performing to a soundtrack. Yuri Khoy also caused a stir off stage: for example, during one of his last concerts in Voronezh, he rode around the city on a horse, portraying Koshchei the Immortal. Regarding his image, Yuri Khoy had a very interesting position– he tried to talk less about the group, believing that the absence complete information creates more excitement in the listener.

It is known that Yuri wanted to play in a concert with the groups DDT or Alisa, but he was not invited, and he did not ask for it. In 1994, he recorded the punk opera “Kashchei the Immortal,” which was a thrash mixture of Russian fairy tales and music in the spirit of AC/DC, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ace Of Base. It was planned to create a video for this “fairy tale,” but Yuri’s death prevented this. He managed to film only a few scenes, and now there are working video versions of the tracks on the Internet: “Aria of Ivan and the Frogs,” “Second Aria of Ivan” and “Third Aria of Ivan.”

Hoy shot a video for the song “Fog” - with black and white chronicle Russian wars. In total, “Gaza Strip” released 4 videos. The fifth video for the song “Fright Night” was not completed due to the singer’s death.

Since 1996, Yuri Khoy changed the style of the group several times, many of the texts became more serious and were cleared of obscenities. The result of these experiments was the album “Gas Attack”, which later became the most commercially successful in the history of the group. In 1999, Yuri Klinskikh became a character in the comic book “The Adventures of Yura Khoy in the Kingdom of Evil.” The comic consisted of fabulous adventures, the hero of which was the leader of the Gaza Strip himself, collecting his albums. The author of the comic was artist Dmitry Samborsky.

In the late 1990s, Sektor Gaza released a number of techno remixes featuring Voronezh DJ Krot. In the last years of his life, Yuri decided to change his image and sound. Instead of a leather jacket, ripped jeans, old T-shirts and army boots, expensive black shoes, dark trousers and a shirt appeared in his wardrobe. Instead of the rollicking “collective farm” punk, listeners were offered the “cool heavy stuff” of the latest album. “I always strived for a heavy sound,” said Yuri Khoy.

By the end of the 1990s, friends began to suspect he had a severe drug addiction. In addition, as friends believed, his companion Olga was a drug addict. “I’ve tried almost every drug, but I’m not used to anything and I’m not going to get used to it. I tried it and that’s enough,” said Yuri Khoy.

In 2000, Yuri was full of the most rosy plans. For three years he hatched the concept of a new album, which was originally supposed to be called “Poor Yurik”. In 1998, Yuri changed the name to “Hellraiser”, deciding to make a completely mystical rap album, which Yuri completed in June 2000. But I never saw its release.

On July 4, the shooting was scheduled for 16:00, Khoy himself and his girlfriend Olga Samarina were supposed to take part in it. Before filming, they had to visit the make-up artist at the Theater Young Spectator. In the morning, Yuri felt unwell, he was pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, he could not understand what was happening to him, but after taking an aspirin tablet, he decided to go anyway.

At 11:30, Yuri Khoy and Olga Samarina left their rented apartment on Dorozhnaya Street, in the South-Western district. By car they went to the make-up artist, a meeting with whom was scheduled for 12:00. At 11:40 on the road, Yuri felt worse and worse and decided to change the route. He turned onto Barnaulskaya Street, where his acquaintance Andrei Ksenz lived in the private sector. Hoy came into his house and immediately lay down on the sofa, unable to stand on his feet. He was tormented by severe pain in his left side and stomach. Olga was nearby. Soon she went into another room for cigarettes, and there she heard a crash - Yuri fell to the floor, losing consciousness.

Olga and the owner of the house unsuccessfully tried to bring Khoy back to life, giving him artificial respiration. They tried to call an ambulance, however, they flatly refused to write down the address with a dubious reputation as a drug den. On the fifth try, Samarina still managed to convey the address. She ran out into the street to meet the ambulance. At this time, Yuri died.

Later, in official medical documents it was written: “Sudden death.” As for the unofficial version, there were many of them. All we can say for sure is that Yuri was killed by his lifestyle, crazy tours, working hard - in the last 10 years at concerts, Hoy always gave his best and never looked after his health. The consequences could not but affect stormy youth: “Since I was 23, I don’t remember being sober for a day,” this is how Hoy described his youth.

I'm a very modest guy
I'm a very quiet guy.
In general, when I'm sober, I'm a pure standard.
But often I go wild, but often I go wild,
As soon as the chatter stops, I'll drop off the balloon.

He began to monitor his health only at the most Lately when it was already late. Moreover, while touring Far East in the fall of 1999, Yuri fell ill with hepatitis C.

Yuri Khoy, who adored heavy sound and heavy rap, speed, simple words and mystical horrors, even “made” his own death look like an unassuming “horror film”. The sum of the digits of her date was 13, his last album– “Hellraiser” - contained 13 songs, was the 13th album, released in the 13th year of the existence of “SG”, and two memorial day– 9 and 40 fell on the 13th.

Yuri Khoy was buried at the Left Bank cemetery in Voronezh.

In memory of Yuri Klinskikh, a documentary television program was created, shown on October 20, 2000 on the RTR television channel as part of the “Tower” project. And in June 2002, the Gas Attack Sector group released their debut album, which she dedicated to the memory of Yuri.

In 2004, the book “Gaza Strip through the eyes of loved ones” was published.” The book contained memories of Yuri Klinsky’s loved ones, articles, interviews, little known facts from the life of the Gaza Strip group and its leader, memories of fans, poems dedicated to Yuri Klinskikh. In 2005, the recording studio “Gala Records” released a tribute album to the group “Gaza Strip”, which included such groups and performers as “NAIV”, “Bricks”, Sergey Kagadeev (“NOM”), “Mongol Shuudan”, “ Bakhyt-Kompot”, Igor Kushchev (ex-“Gaza Strip”) and other groups. On June 30, 2006, on the DTV channel in the TV show “How the Idols Left,” a story about the work of Yuri Klinsky was aired.

On October 5, 2008, a short film was dedicated to the memory of Yuri Klinskikh, shown on the NTV channel in the TV show “The Main Hero”.

On December 6, 2012, a concert dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Gaza Strip group was held in St. Petersburg. On July 26, 2014, in the city of Samara, in the rock bar “Podval”, a concert was held entitled “I’m 50!”, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the leader of the legendary “Gaza Strip” Yuri Klinskikh, with the participation of Samara groups and performers.

Musician, poet, composer, founder and permanent leader of the Gaza Strip group.

“It’s probably better to live without having anything... You become free, like an animal, like a bird... The sky... A lot of time for creativity...” Yuri Klinskikh.

His mother Maria Kuzminichna was a housewife, and his father Nikolai Mitrofanovich Klinskikh was an engineer who worked at the Voronezh aircraft plant. Yuri was not the only son of the Klinsky couple; he had two older brothers. Since childhood, Yuri grew up as a smart and inquisitive boy, interested in everything he could see. At school, Yuri did not stand out in anything special, he studied with C grades and took home “failures” for his behavior. In his diploma of secondary education there was only one “B” in work. Yuri often did not go to his first lessons, but stayed at home late with books. He was honest and tried never to lie.

The older brothers introduced Yura to music from a young age; rock and roll could often be heard in the Klinsky house. All three brothers, in addition to Soviet music, listened to bands The Beatles and Deep Purple - first on records, then on reels. The father taught his youngest son to poetry, study literature and the rules of versification. He himself wrote poetry all his life and published, but without much success. The lessons given by Nikolai Mitrofanovich later manifested themselves in his son’s rollicking songs, which, despite the “ugly” content in the opinion of literary critics, had “impeccable syllable and style.”

After graduating from school and studying at DOSAAF, where Yuri received a driver's license, Yuri was drafted into the army in tank forces.

After the army, Yuri went to work in the traffic police, but did not fit in with the police. “To work in the police, you need to be a bad person. There are, of course, normal people there, but they don’t belong there,” Yuri later said. He himself always loved speed and cars, tried not to fine drivers who slightly exceeded the speed limit, and felt sorry for people from villages. At the same time, he did not like to fawn over his superiors. One day, Yuri stopped the mayor of Voronezh, who was driving through a red light. And to the question: “Do you know who I am?”, he answered that he didn’t want to know. Another time he stopped an important priest, and both times he got into trouble. In addition, Hoy could never fulfill the plan for fines assigned by the traffic police management. Three years of working in the police were real hard labor for him.

For the last few months of his service in the internal affairs bodies, Yuri served in private security, counting the days until his new demobilization. As Nikolai Mitrofanovich later recalled, Yuri barely worked his last day at the police station, came home, took off his uniform, threw it on the floor and began to trample it with his feet. Having finished what he considered to be a bad job, Yuri worked as a milling machine operator, a CNC machine operator at Videofon, and a loader. In his free time, he wrote songs and played the guitar. He bought a Volga-31 and almost crashed it on a Moscow highway somewhere near Tula. Yuri sold the car restored after the accident, and after that he tried to stay away from domestic car brands. Among his next cars were a red diesel VolksWagen Golf III and a white Daewoo Nexia with power accessories and air conditioning.

In his free time from part-time jobs, Yuri watched mystical or horror films, played billiards and studied music. In the period from 1981 to 1985, he recorded the acoustic album “Years Pass Like a Moment...” on a tape recorder. And when a rock club opened in Voronezh, Yuri became a regular. At a spring concert in 1987, he played for the first time several songs that he began writing at the same time - in February and March. As Yuri later said, he did not like the poverty of the themes of amateur groups and he decided to enrich the rock club with his participation. “I wrote my first poem at school, I remember something about spring. Then, before the army, I learned to play the guitar and tried to do something. But the songs were primitive, about love, all that little stuff. Then, when I returned from the army, I worked at a factory and didn’t think about anything. When the rock club opened, I looked at the amateur groups, I didn’t like their poor themes, I remember they sang something about peace, about love, about something incomprehensible. I decided to shake off the old days. And since I already had experience, I began to do quite well. Everyone liked it, and that’s how it all went…” Yuri later said.

Many works, especially from the early songs, were autobiographical for Yuri. The songs “Java” and “Ment” were written after Yuri left the sobering center, and the songs “Yadrena Vosh” and “Took the Blame” were dedicated to his brother. At that time, Yuri himself tried to “separate” himself and the “lyrical hero” - “a kind of monster in smelly socks, who suffered from all known sexually transmitted diseases and gained impotence.” He said that singing about human vices does not mean endorsing them. For Yura, such songs were, rather, some special way of dealing with them.

Hoy never considered himself a classic “punk”. “Perhaps at the beginning of creativity, pure “punk” was visible here and there,” he said in his interviews. Basically, Yuri did what he personally liked, without being attached to the style. And indeed, musically his albums were quite diverse. Yura himself defined the style of his team as “fusion”.

Hoy's role models and favorite music were Western bands - Rage Against The Machine, Biohazard, AC/DC and Alice Cooper. In recent years, Yura has been influenced by heavy rap with its blues, clear rhythms and rock guitars, and throughout his career he has loved punk and death metal. In an interview, Yuri said: “Gaza Strip” is not even a group, but one of my projects. Even now I cannot say that “Sector” is a group. This is more of a live lineup, because I always work alone in the studio. And since 1992, I have been inviting Igor Zhirnov, guitarist of the Rondo group. I’m not at all a supporter of changing musicians, as, say, BG does. If someone left, it was only of their own free will. The main thing in a team is that the person is not a jerk. After all, sometimes a tour can drag on for several weeks or even more. And to be next to someone like that - no, sorry.”

After the success of the albums “The Evil Dead” and “Yadrena Vosh”, which Yuri sent to Moscow with the help of his friend, the group began performing at various parties, but Yuri quickly got tired of it. “When we entered the big stage, a person who had previously worked only with “pop” and who began to feel sick at the word “rock and roll” began to take care of us,” Yuri Khoy said in an interview.

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During their creative activity, the group toured many cities in Russia and abroad - in Belarus, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and Estonia. The albums were released in 1994, then were re-released by Gala Records in 1997.

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He was quite happy with the political system, because he had the opportunity to earn good money from his talent. “It makes no difference to us who we play for; we are far from politics. If Zhirinovsky pays, we play for Zhirinovsky; if another faction pays, we’ll play for them,” said Yuri Khoy. However, Hoy believed that if he had to get stuck as a loader, then, of course, he would be dissatisfied with the government.

As their popularity grew, Khoy’s songs became de facto folk music, the music of demobilization workers, vocational school students, students and rural youth. Zhlobrokgroup - this is how the Gaza Strip was often ironically called - a group that Hoy himself compared to porn, and which was not accepted by either rock or pop music. Even Yuri Nikulin liked the group’s work. After Yuri Khoy played a concert at the Nikulin Circus, the famous artist invited the young man to his dressing room. Amid words of admiration and gratitude, Nikulin took out a bottle of cognac and invited Khoy to talk. The artist himself was so flattered by these compliments that he often told his friends and relatives about this incident.

Yuri Khoy's songs amazed listeners with their frankness. With surgical precision, he revealed the deepest recesses of the human soul, which were not talked about in the USSR. His work aroused either deep interest or protest from the audience. The artistry of the group leader and only live performances were the opposite of the concerts of performers performing to a soundtrack. Yuri Khoy also caused a stir off stage: for example, during one of his last concerts in Voronezh, he rode around the city on a horse, portraying Koshchei the Immortal. Regarding his image, Yuri Khoy had a very interesting position - he tried to talk less about the group, believing that the lack of complete information causes more excitement in the listener.

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Hoy shot a video for the song “Fog” - with a black and white chronicle of Russian wars. In total, “Gaza Strip” released 4 videos. The fifth video for the song “Fright Night” was not completed due to the singer’s death.

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In the late 1990s, Sektor Gaza released a number of techno remixes featuring Voronezh DJ Krot. In the last years of his life, Yuri decided to change his image and sound. Instead of a biker jacket, torn jeans, old T-shirts and army boots, expensive black shoes, dark trousers and a shirt appeared in his wardrobe. Instead of the rollicking “collective farm” punk, listeners were offered the “cool heavy stuff” of the latest album. “I always strived for a heavy sound,” said Yuri Khoy.

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For the release of this thirteenth album, Hoy planned to shoot a video clip. He now has sponsors who are willing to invest significant resources in advertising. On July 4, 2000, he was going to go to the shooting of the video clip “Night of Fright” at the Voronezh Art-Prize studio. Operator Oleg Zolotarev, on the air of the “Tower” program on RTR in the fall of 2000, recalled working together over the “Fright Night” video: “Already in June, he called me and said that we would urgently, urgently shoot a video. On June 22, they started filming for the first time. Last time The shooting was scheduled just for the day of his death. We agreed on four hours a day. I sat waiting for him. He waited, waited, waited... Andrei Deltsov called instead and said that Yura was no more.”

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On July 4, the shooting was scheduled for 16:00, Khoy himself and his girlfriend Olga Samarina were supposed to take part in it. Before filming, they had to visit the make-up artist at the Theater for Young Spectators. In the morning, Yuri felt unwell, he was pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, he could not understand what was happening to him, but after taking an aspirin tablet, he decided to go anyway.

Later, in official medical documents it was written: “Sudden death.” As for the unofficial version, there were many of them. All that can be said for sure is that Yuri was killed by his lifestyle, frantic touring, working hard - in the last 10 years, at concerts, Hoy always gave his best and never looked after his health. The consequences of his turbulent youth could not help but affect him: “Since I was 23, I don’t remember being sober for a day,” this is how Hoy described his youth.

I'm a very modest guy
I'm a very quiet guy.
In general, when I'm sober, I'm a pure standard.
But often I go wild, but often I go wild,
As soon as the chatter stops, I'll drop off the balloon.

He began to monitor his health only recently, when it was already too late. In addition, during a tour of the Far East in the fall of 1999, Yuri fell ill with hepatitis C.

Yuri Khoy, who adored heavy sound and heavy rap, speed, simple words and mystical horrors, “made” even his death look like an unassuming “horror film”. The sum of the numbers of its date was 13, his last album - “Hellraiser” - contained 13 songs, was the 13th album, released in the 13th year of the existence of “SG”, and two memorial days - 9 and 40 - fell on the 13th.

Yuri Khoy was buried at the Left Bank cemetery in Voronezh.

Yuri's wife Galina never married after his death and lived with youngest daughter. Yuri had two daughters. Irina became a psychologist after graduating from the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. Lily in this moment studies. U eldest daughter Yuri's son Matvey was born in 2011.

In memory of Yuri Klinskikh, a documentary television program was created, shown on October 20, 2000 on the RTR television channel as part of the “Tower” project. And in June 2002, the group “Gas Attack Sector” released its debut album, which it dedicated to the memory of Yuri.

In 2004, the book “Gaza Strip through the eyes of loved ones” was published.” The book contained memories of Yuri Klinskikh's loved ones, articles, interviews, little-known facts from the life of the Gaza Strip group and its leader, memories of fans, poems dedicated to Yuri Klinskikh. In 2005, the recording studio “Gala Records” released a tribute album to the group “Gaza Strip”, which included such groups and performers as “NAIV”, “Bricks”, Sergey Kagadeev (“NOM”), “Mongol Shuudan”, “ Bakhyt-Kompot”, Igor Kushchev (ex-“Gaza Strip”) and other groups. On June 30, 2006, on the DTV channel in the TV show “How the Idols Left,” a story about the work of Yuri Klinsky was aired.

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On October 5, 2008, a short film was dedicated to the memory of Yuri Klinskikh, shown on the NTV channel in the TV show “The Main Hero”.

On July 27, 2014, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Yuri Klinskikh, a monument in the form of a full-length sculpture was erected, and a festival in memory of Yuri Khoy was held.

Text prepared by Andrey Goncharov

Used materials:

Materials from the site www.bestpeopleofrussia.ru
Text of the article by Vyacheslav Chesh
Materials from the site www.hoy-sektor.ru
Materials from the site www.sektorgaza.net
Materials from the Wikipedia site

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Biography

"Gaza Strip" rock band created by Yuri Klinskikh in 1987 in Voronezh.

“Gaza Strip” is named after the area in Voronezh where Yuri Khoy lived. Explanation - there were many factories in the area, which is why it was nicknamed the “Gas Sector”. The group joins a local rock club and at a fast pace is gaining popularity not only in hometown, but also beyond. The Klinsky songs, describing the life and everyday life of ordinary representatives of working youth, found a response in the hearts of those same youth. The hits of the Gaza Strip are sung in gateways and basements throughout the country, while the group is completely ignored by the USSR mass media. Klinskikh himself works at the plant as an ordinary worker. All-Union fame does not bring Yuri any financial resources. For the habit, taken from Yegor Letov, of shouting from the stage: “Hoy!”, fans give him the nickname “Yura Hoy.”

At the same time, the promotion of the team is carried out by one of the first recording companies of the post-perestroika USSR, Gala Records. The group's albums come out one after another. According to unofficial data, “Gaza Strip” is the leader in music box office, Hoy and the company are touring the CIS. With the participation of the group, an episode of the famous “Program A” is even aired on television.

Essentially, “Gaza Strip” is Yuri Klinskikh + a constantly changing line-up of musicians. At one time, Tatyana Fateeva worked in the group, successfully complementing Khoy as a backup singer.

Throughout the 90s, the “Gaza Strip”, which was virtually ignored not only by the mass media, but also by fellow rock members ( best example This is due to the lack of information about S.G. in the rock encyclopedia "Who's Who in Soviet Rock" 1991). She enjoyed enormous popularity among the “lower classes” of society, the so-called “Gopniks”. At the same time, Khoy’s peppery creativity had enough admirers in more intellectual circles. The group also performed in foreign countries: Germany, Israel.

On July 4, 2000, his body could not stand it, his liver failed, and Klinskikh died of a heart attack at a friend’s apartment in Voronezh. Soon the band's last album, Hellraiser, was released.

Then a wave of Klinsky followers began. Former musicians S.G. or simply Yuri’s acquaintances create groups using themes developed by Khoy and the name “Gaza Strip”. Many consider such “inheritance” a violation of moral rights. Moreover, Yuri’s epigones were unable to fill the niche that arose after the death of the Klinskys.

This is not surprising - the popularity of the Gaza Strip was largely a consequence of the era in which the group developed. People former USSR that round has already passed cultural development, which sparked the band's popularity. “Painful” emotions were released and did not need to be repeated. However, there is a simpler explanation: the group’s epigones never reached the level of the Klinskys, either in terms of text or music, and even more so in terms of popularity.

Although the groups “ex-Gaza Sector” (founded by Igor Kushchev) and “Gas Attack Sector” (founded by Sergei Guznin (Kim) and Tatyana Fateeva) became quite popular. Last group collaborated with Red Mold to create the punk musical Little Red Riding Hood (2001).

Yuri Klinskikh came from the typical environment of Soviet working-class neighborhoods. He was bad student and after graduating from school and the army, he did not stay long in any workplace. Klinskikh was not in prison, but his closest relatives went through this school of life. Klinskikh was not only a witness, but also a participant in brawls and group fights, typical of residential areas. At the same time, Yuri was fond of music since childhood, played the guitar and was quite intelligent, thinking person. Having absorbed specific culture his surroundings, he poured out his acquired experience into songs. Preserving the jargon and following the concepts of the lumpen milo, which was close to him, Hoy brilliantly recreated reality, rhyming it into poetry. The heroes of his songs are simple guys “next door”, workers (sometimes on the contrary - they are village residents, “collective farmers”), alcoholics, homeless people, people of a criminal or semi-criminal persuasion. They are interested in everyday problems - who to drink with, who to sleep with, what to do next. It was this unpretentiousness and obviousness of the characters that appealed so much to the very people about whom Klinsky wrote his songs.

In addition, a large layer of the Klinskys’ creativity is devoted to the theme of the afterlife. The plots of these songs usually develop in rural areas. The heroes of the songs are still the same “collective farmers” or “hard workers”.

However, Yuri did not stand in one place, developing as a musician and poet. He willingly experimented with the theme and form of songs, musically elegantly parodying famous motifs. A striking example is his rock fairy tale (punk opera) “Kashchei the Immortal”. Klinskikh was fond of various musical trends from hard rock to black rap, which was reflected in his songs. Khoy’s best imperishable songs include not only the early hits of the “Gaza Strip” stuffed with obscenities, but also such serious songs as “Fog”, “Home”, “Life”, “30 Years”.

Yuri Klinskikh revered the work of Vladimir Vysotsky and often drew parallels between himself and the legendary bard. The song “On the Night Before Christmas” was written by Yura, clearly under the influence of Vysotsky’s song “Pursuit”.

It was mistakenly believed that Gaza Strip was a punk band. Klinskikh indeed initially used punk paraphernalia on stage, thereby creating a precedent for such an opinion. However, the arrangements of S.G.’s songs are not related to punk rock: “dead” drums on studio recordings, the dominance of synthesizers and “heavy” guitar solos gave the group’s sound a rather “pop” flavor. Nihilism in the lyrics is also not enough to qualify Sektor as a punk band, since there is virtually no shocking or open protest in the songs. Klinskikh himself later expressed dissatisfaction with the overall studio sound, musical style The group, in turn, was characterized as “fusion”. Considering that the Klinskys’ lyrics gradually became more and more in-depth, the efforts of Khoy’s so-called friends, allegedly resuscitating the “Gaza Strip” after the death of the Klinskys, look especially pale against its background.

In the last years of his life, Yuri, who abused not only alcohol, but also heroin, suffered from hepatitis C. However, the death of the Klinskys came as a surprise to many fans. Yuri was not a rich man; his family was left virtually without Money, as a result of which a large-scale campaign took place on the Internet to raise money for the Klinsky monument.

Compound
Founder of the group, vocals, author of music and songs, acoustic guitar, guitar, keyboards: Klinskikh Yuri Nikolaevich (Khoy), July 27, 1964 - July 4, 2000. Until 1989 he worked solo, sometimes at rock club festivals with session musicians. The first recordings of Yuri Klinsky are dated 1981.

First lineup: (1989 - 1991)

Semyon Vsevolodovich Titievsky, January 20, 1968 - bass guitar
Kryuchkov Oleg "Hook" - drums
Kushchev Igor Gennadievich "Kushch", July 23, 1959 - lead guitar
Yakushev Alexander Vasilievich, June 21, 1965 - drums
Deltsov Andrey Kimovich (gr. Phaeton), February 23, 1963 - sound engineer (sometimes guitar at concerts)
There is mention of a certain guitarist Max, who performed 7 performances in 1989 and disappeared in an unknown direction.

Tupikin Sergey Ivanovich, January 23, 1965 - leader guitar
Ushakov Alexey Alekseevich (gr. Phaeton), May 12, 1963 - keyboards
Sukochev (or Suchkov?) Vitaly Vasilievich "Python", February 15, 1965 - bass guitar
Fateeva Tatyana Evgenievna (gr. School), September 14, 1968 - vocals

Second lineup: (1991-1993)

Lobanov Vladimir Mikhailovich, September 8, 1964 - leader guitar
Tupikin Sergey Ivanovich - bass guitar

Fateeva Tatyana - vocals
Popov Albert Mikhailovich "Red Cucumber" - Voronezh punk bard. It works while warming up.

Session musicians from this period:

Third line-up: (1993-1995)

Glukhov Vadim Alekseevich, August 25, 1965 - leader guitar
Ushakov Alexey Alekseevich - keyboards
Yakushev Alexander Vasilievich - drums
Deltsov Andrey Kimovich - sound engineer

Fourth lineup: (1995-1997)

Chernykh Vasily Ivanovich "Samodelkin", December 3, 1965 - April 8, 2008, died tragically after being hit by a car - guitar
Anikeev Igor Alekseevich "Cat" - keyboards
Yakushev Alexander Vasilievich - drums
Deltsov Andrey Kimovich - sound engineer

Session musicians from this period:

Podzorov Valery Viktorovich, August 23, 1964 - bass guitar
Ushakov Alexey Alekseevich - keyboards (sometimes replaces Igor Anikeev)

Final lineup: (1997-2000)

Glukhov Vadim Alekseevich - lead guitar
Anikeev Igor Alekseevich "Cat" - keys, rhythm section
Deltsov Andrey Kimovich - sound engineer

Studio cast:

Titievsky Semyon Vsevolodovich - bass guitar (Plows-Woogie, Collective Farm Punk-1989, Evil Dead, Yadrena Louse)
Kryukov Oleg "Hook" - drums (Plows-Woogie, Collective Farm Punk-1989)
Yakushev Alexander Vasilievich - drums (Plows-Woogie, Kolkhoz punk-1989)
Kushchev Igor Gennadievich "Kushch" - lead guitar (Plows-Woogie, Collective Farm Punk-1989, Evil Dead, Yadrena Vlosh, The Night Before Christmas)
Ushakov Alexey Alekseevich - keyboards (Yadryona Losh, The Evil Dead, The Night Before Christmas, Press on the Gas, Fairy Tale, Dancing after the Gang), voice (Fairy Tale)
Fateeva Tatyana Evgenievna - vocals (Evil Dead, Yadryona Losh, Gulyai Muzhik)
Zhirnov Igor Mikhailovich "Egor" (group Joker, Black Obelisk, Rondo), September 21, 1964 in Tomsk - lead guitar (all albums starting with Gulyai Muzhik)
Tupikin Sergey Ivanovich - bass guitar (Walk, man, Press on the gas, Kolkhoz Punk-92), lead guitar (Plows Woogie, Kolkhoz Punk-89)
Cherkezov Elbrus Dzhahangirovich "Bruce" (gr. Blade), September 7, 1968 - bass guitar (N.U.M)
Dronov Vasily (Mongol Shuudan) - bass guitar (Hellraiser)
Pukhonina Irina "Bukharina" - vocals (CCI, Skazka)
Nikiforova Veronika Vsevolodovna (DJ of Russian Radio-Voronezh), August 29, 1976 - vocals in the songs “Give-Give” and “Evening on the Bench” in the remix album.
Bryantsev Alexander (or Alexey?) Ivanovich "DJ Mole", March 13, 1973
- remix producer
Anikeev Igor Alekseevich "Cat" - keyboards (based on the song in N.U.M and Hellraiser)
Glukhov Vadim Alekseevich - guitar ("Fog" - Gas Attack)

Koltakov Andrey "Boniface" - recording and mixing
Tamanov Valery - recording and mixing
Bogdanov Yuri - recording and mixing
Deltsov Andrey Kimovich - sound engineer

Samborsky Dmitry Yaroslavovich, May 30, 1970 - artist, design
Pokrovsky Dmitry O. - album design Collective Farm Punk, Yadryona Louse, The Night Before Christmas, Walk, Man, Dancing after the Gang
Radimov Sergey - album design Narcological University of Millions
Pavlov Sergey - design
Zhuravlev Sergey - design
Lipatov Alexander - design "Collection"
Zolotarev Oleg (NTV-Voronezh) - operator of "Fairy Tales"
Velikanov Dmitry - cameraman of the video Fog
Larionov Denis - director of the video Fog
Belilovskaya Ekaterina - photographer
Guznin Alexander - photographer
Ukhin Alexey - photographer

Group management:

Kocherga Alexander Ivanovich "Ukhvat", September 2, 1961 - organized concerts for the group in 1989-1990. Founder of the Voronezh rock club.
Simonov Fidel - director of the group in 1991, creator of the "left" Sectors.
Savin Sergey Nikolaevich - group director (1992-1995)
Lyakhov Konstantin - director of the group (1995-2000)
Kabanov Alexey Valerievich - administrator (1995-2000)
Privalov Alexey Vladimirovich, born on May 23, 1972 in Moscow. Collaborated with Yura from 1996 to 2000. First he was a director concert department company "Gala", with which "Sector" had a concert contract. Privalov organized concerts around the country and traveled with the group as a tour manager. But after some time he left Gala, but continued to collaborate with Yurts.
Kurbanov Aslan is the administrator of the group’s official website - www.klinskih.da.ru (www.sektorgaza.net) from 1998 to the present).

All of the group's albums, except Plowie-Woogie (1989), Kolkhoz Punk (1989) and Gaza Strip (1993), were released on the S.B.A/Gala Records label. Albums were also recorded at the studios "Blackbox" (Voronezh), "Mir" (Moscow), Gala Records (Moscow).

Discography
Original albums

* 1989 Plow-woogie
* 1989 Collective farm punk [ original version]
* 1990 Evil Dead
* 1990 Yadrena louse
* 1991 The Night Before Christmas
* 1991 Collective Farm Punk [main version]
* 1992 Walk, man!
* 1993 Step on the gas
* 1993 Gaza Strip
* 1994 Dancing after fucking
* 1994 Kashchei the Immortal
* 1996 Gas attack
* 1997 Drug Abuse University of Millions
* 1997 Gaza Strip [re-recording]
* 2000 Hellraiser

Collections, remixes
* 1996 Favorites
* 1997 Favorites 2
* 1998 Ballads
* 1999 Extasy (remixes by Alexey Bryantsev (DJ Mole))
* 1999 Steb-house (remixes by Alexey Bryantsev (DJ Mole))
* 2001 Favorites 3