Year of birth of Yuri Khoy. A hero of his time: we remember Yuri Khoy, his life and mysterious death

16 years ago, on July 4, 2000, Yuri Klinskikh (Khoy), the lead singer of the Gas Sector group and the author of all its songs, passed away.

“In my life I have met friends and enemies.

I've seen a lot of things in my life.

But I never learned the meaning of life, ah.

The sun burned my body, the wind ruffled my hair,

But I never learned the meaning of life.”

Yuri Klinskikh was born on July 27, 1964 in Voronezh into the family of Nikolai Mitrofanovich, an engineer and riveter at the Voronezh Aviation Plant, and Maria Kuzminichna Klinskikh. At school, Yuri studied satisfactorily, but he had an irresistible passion for music. A passion for poetry was instilled in him by his father, who wrote poetry and tried to publish. Yura learned early about the existence of Western rock culture, since rock and roll was often heard in the Klinsky family. Soon after, he decided to teach himself the guitar. His father's lessons were not in vain, so Yura began to compose poems, which later formed his first songs.

Upon graduation from school (Voronezh high school No. 30) (1981) studied at DOSAAF to become a ZIL-130 driver. Before the army, he met his future wife Galina. He served in the Far East (Blagoveshchensk) in tank forces as a driver mechanic. Resigned to the reserve in 1984. After serving in the army, Yuri worked for two years as a traffic police inspector and one year in private security, then as a milling machine operator, a CNC machine operator at the Voronezh Videophone, a loader, and wrote songs in his spare time. He perceived his creativity as a hobby, without even dreaming of a big stage. He recorded an acoustic album on tape in 1981 and partially re-recorded it in 1985. After the opening of a rock club in Voronezh, he became a regular. In the spring of 1987, a concert took place at the club, at which Yuri performed several songs of his own composition.

“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 went...

Yuri Klinskikh"

For six months he performed solo or with invited musicians. The first composition of the group, called the Gaza Strip, met on December 5, 1987 and subsequently changed frequently. The group received its name thanks to the nickname of a part of the Left Bank district of Voronezh, known for its tense environmental situation and crime situation. As for the pseudonym, it came from Yuri’s signature cry: “Hoy!”, which he often uttered during his performances and also used in his work.

At first, “Sektor Gaza” performed as an opening act for groups that came to Voronezh, such as “Zvuki Mu”, “ civil defense" and children". Due to the abundance of profanity in the lyrics, the Gaza Strip remained underground for a long time. In those years, Yuri Klinskikh worked first at a consumer electronics factory, then as a loader; music didn't bring in any income. The group did not give concerts outside of Voronezh; the Gaza Strip records were distributed throughout the country through the efforts of fans.

The group gained universal fame only in 1990 after the release of the albums “The Evil Dead” and “Yadrena Vosh”, which Yuri sent to Moscow with the help of his friend. In 1991, Sektor Gaza received the opportunity to record an album in Moscow at the Mir studio. Soon the group's recordings will be published by one of the first commercial ones in Russia. record companies"Gala Records", after which the group's popularity increased significantly and it was able to legally give concerts. The albums were officially released in Voronezh at the Black Box studio, and the Moscow studio Gala Records published them in 1994 and re-released them in 1997. The albums “Collective Farm Punk” and “Press the Gas” were released in 1991 and 1993, respectively, on records, disks and cassettes.

In June 1994, Yuri recorded the rock opera “Kashchei the Immortal” as a new album. Later, Yuri wanted to create a video version of this album, but his 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.”

Since 1996, Yuri Klinskikh has somewhat changed the style of the group, many texts become more serious and cleared of obscenities. The result of these experiments is the album “Gas Attack”, which later became the most commercially successful in the history of the group.

Since 1997, Yuri has radically changed his image - instead of a leather jacket, ripped jeans, old T-shirts and army boots, black expensive shoes, dark trousers and a shirt appear.

For my creative career big money Klinskikh never made money due to the prosperity of “piracy”, which affected the number of licensed discs sold, amounting to approximately 1% of the total number. However, the group and its leader became very famous in Russia and the CIS. Despite the fact that the group's later lyrics were more restrained, most fans and representatives music industry“Gaza Strip” was associated with obscene language and obscene songs. During creative activity the group toured many cities in Russia and abroad (Belarus, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia).

Why and how Yuri Khoy died.

July 02, 2000, Sunday. Yuri Khoy and Olga Samarina came to Voronezh from Moscow. In the evening, at the request of his wife Galina, Yuri takes his family to Usman.

July 03, 2000, Monday. In the evening, Khoy visits his half-brother Anatoly (“it was already getting dark, and he came to see me”), then to Igor Kushchev (he was away from home), to Vadim Glukhov (“on the eve of his death, he came to my house in the evening - they rented an apartment in next door"), rides around his hometown. He comes home and watches the entire video recording of his concert, although somehow he didn’t like to watch his recordings and go to bed.

July 04, 2000, Tuesday. The day promises to be hot, Yuri Khoy has a busy schedule planned: today the shooting of the video for the new album for the song “Night of Fear” should be completed at the Art-prize studio, and further work on the video should be discussed with cameraman Oleg Zolotarev. The shooting is scheduled for 16:00, Hoy himself and his girlfriend Olga Samarina are taking part in the shooting; before filming, they need to visit the make-up artist at the Theater Young Spectator. In the morning, Yuri feels unwell, he is pale, his forehead is covered with sweat, he cannot understand what is wrong with him: “the blood is running like boiling water through his veins,” but after taking an aspirin tablet, he decides to go anyway.

11:30 Yuri Khoy and Olga Samarina leave their rented apartment on Dorozhnaya Street, in the South-Western district, on the Right Bank. In a white Nexia car, they head to the make-up artist, whose meeting is scheduled for 12:00, the beginning of the first one.

11:40 On the road, Yuri feels worse and worse, very pale, “I’m like a dead man, I don’t even need to put on makeup.” And he decides to change the route halfway, turns onto Barnaulskaya Street, where an acquaintance of his named Andrei Ksenz lives in the private sector.

11:50 Hoy enters the house and immediately lies down on the sofa, unable to stand on his feet, he is tormented by severe pain in his left side and stomach, “everything burns with fire.” Olga is nearby, apparently believing that this is an attack that will soon pass.

11:55 Samarina goes into another room for cigarettes, and suddenly hears a crash - Yuri falls to the floor and loses consciousness.

12:00 Olga and the owner of the house unsuccessfully try to bring Khoy back to life by performing artificial respiration. They try to call an ambulance, however, they flatly refuse to write down the address with a dubious reputation as a drug den; Samarina still manages to hand over the address on the fifth try. Olga runs out into the street to meet the ambulance so that they “don’t get lost in the houses.” At this time, Yuri “is choking, his face is burgundy... And as he lay there, he died...”.

12:35 Arriving doctors confirm the death of Yuri Klinskikh. By chance, the ambulance doctor turns out to be an acquaintance of Galina Klinskikh, Khoy’s wife.

13:20 A criminal investigation team arrived at the scene and is drawing up a report on the discovery of the corpse. The police are conducting operational filming of the scene of the incident.

Entry from the police report:
07/04/2000 AT 13.20 ON STREET XXXXXXXXXXXX, X IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND,
NO EXTERNALLY VISIBLE TRACES OF VIOLENT DEATH DETECTED
CORPSE KLINSKY YU.N. 1964 G.R., PROJ. ST. XXXXXXXXXXXXX KVXXXX,
SOLOIST OF THE GAZ SECTOR GROUP.
Reported: ROVD 15:00 ATC 15:18 KUP 1563
Traveled to: EUR
Seized: no evidence found

What's wrong with the official version:

Yuri Khoy had to go to get his makeup done at the Theater for Young Spectators (Youth Theater), which is located at Dzerzhinsky St., 10a. (“When Yurka was running around like crazy, I wanted to call an ambulance, but he insisted: “We need to go to the Theater for Young Spectators, put on makeup for filming in the video!” “Express Newspaper”, “Go with them!” from 23.07. 2008)
Youth Theater on the Right Bank, from Khoya’s rented apartment on Dorozhnaya Street to the theater is very close - it’s a 10-minute drive, but to Barnaulskaya Street, on the Left Bank (where he eventually ended up) - twice as long.

Take the book “HOY! Epitaph of rock-gouging” and on page 118 we read “... we got into the car, drove off... And he said, a friend of mine lives here, let’s go see him...”

Then we look at the map and ask the question “Where was Hoy when he said that?” And did he even say this? Is it possible to believe what Olga says after this?

Route notes:
Point A - rented apartment from where Hoy moved out (starting point)
Point B - Theater of Young Spectators (destination)
Point C - Barnaulskaya street (place of death)

Good afternoon I’m like a local in a nutshell: Barnaulskaya Street is located on the left bank of Voronezh, in an area called “Peschanovka”. Many people believe that the area is called “Mashmet”, but it is further away. Of course, there is no way to get here “on the way” from Dorozhnaya Street to the Youth Theater, since the Youth Theater is located approximately in the middle between Dorozhnaya and Barnaulskaya. You counted everything correctly.

Now about the main thing: in the house on Barnaulskaya there is a “cookhouse” known throughout the district, or according to the protocol “drug den”. The owner of the house has a share of the “poison” from the visitors who come to him, for the “kitchen” provided. His name is Andrey Ksenz. He is still alive and lives at the same address. Of course, the cops confiscated all the certificates and evidence of death. The event itself took everyone by surprise, both friends and family, except those who were next to him at that moment. That's why everyone looked confused. Nobody knew what would happen next. All these people were together for only one reason - Yura, and after his death they no longer had anything in common. Only sharing. The cops gave instructions to talk about cardiac arrest. And so everyone came up with their own ideas for this. It was impossible to announce to the whole country that an artist known throughout the country had “fucked off.” Imagine what would happen to the head of the local police department! Hence the discrepancy in the readings. Moreover, every cop in the city knew Yura, and no one would want everyone to know how and where everything happened.

Regarding the drugs, it is believed that Olya got him hooked. Yes and no. He had smoked weed before, and he also knew first-hand what poppy was. She introduced him to other, harder drugs. Here in Voronezh, it’s a whole epidemic! The gypsies, protected by the cops, filled everything with their “poisons”. 50% of the generation of the 90s are now in their graves.

Participants in the popular mystical show “Battle of Psychics” were trying to find out the cause of the death of the lead singer of the Gaza Strip group, Yuri Khoy. On a program where people who supposedly have the gift of clairvoyance find explanations unusual phenomena, two daughters of Yuri Khoy, Irina and Lilia, and his son-in-law came. The musician’s relatives wanted to figure out who regularly breaks the tombstone at the grave of the punk rock legend and why the cause of his death is still unknown.

According to relatives and fans of Yuri Khoy, after his death they were given only a death certificate, and the results of the autopsy were allegedly lost. The circumstances of that tragedy are shrouded in mystery. The musician died on July 4, 2000 in one of the private houses on Barnaulskaya Street. On this day, he was going to go to the shooting of the video clip “Night of Fright” at the Voronezh Art-Prize studio. By official version, the musician died of a heart attack, although nothing was previously known about heart problems. According to the unofficial version, Yuri took drugs and suffered from hepatitis, which was the cause of death. Hoy missed his 36th birthday by 23 days.

Yuri Klinsky's relatives brought to the show's studio the last broken monument that stood at the musician's grave. The presenters covered the marble slab with a cloth and asked the participants of the “Battle” to guess what was under it. Various participants in the show expressed similar versions - “connected with death”, “mysterious death”, etc. Someone even said that the Gaza Strip group was under a curse.

However, some psychics surprised the musician’s daughters with almost one hundred percent guessing of some events in Khoy’s life. For example, they described the accidents he got into, talked about his experiences due to love triangle. Spectators were amazed by the precise hits of some clairvoyants. So, one of them even “saw” a white cat, Khoy’s favorite pet - the animal died literally six months ago. She also predicted that other members of the group would gradually follow the leader of the group. The hosts of the show associated her phrase “the chain has not yet closed” with the fact that shortly before the broadcast, the group’s keyboard player Igor Anikeev died.

Some participants in the show explained the death of the musician by his musical activity. Allegedly, he always played with death: he sang on behalf of the dead, collected a collection of horror films, and wrote poems about the afterlife. However, the proceedings were put to rest by a psychic who spoke about many moments in Klinsky’s biography when he managed to avoid death. The clairvoyant voiced a completely non-mystical version of the reasons for the musician’s death - alcohol and drugs. Relatives agreed with this conclusion.

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 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.

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

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-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 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. Because of the huge sales on cassettes, everyone knew his group, but most audio media were produced 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.

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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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“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 Liberal Democratic Party, but for money. Yura did not have his own political preferences, sending all politics “...to hell. With a gimlet!

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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 my 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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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, “made” even his 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.

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 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.

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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 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.

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

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.”

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.

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

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 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.

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 “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”.

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.

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.”

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 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.

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.

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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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“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 Liberal Democratic Party, but for money. Yura did not have his own political preferences, sending all politics “...to hell. With a gimlet!

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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.

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, 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.

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.”

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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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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.

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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.

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.

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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 on the “Night of Fright” video: “Already in June, he called me and said that we would urgently, urgently shoot the video. On June 22, they started filming for the first time. The last time the shooting was scheduled was precisely on 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.

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 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 her youngest daughter. Yuri had two daughters. Irina became a psychologist after graduating from the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. Lilia is currently studying. The eldest daughter Yuri gave birth to a son, Matvey, 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 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.

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

300 rebounds, 7 of them this month

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