Literary almanac "Metropol"

A collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers (Bella Akhmadulina, Andrey Voznesensky, Evgeny Rein, Vladimir Vysotsky, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Genrikh Sapgir, Yuri Karabchievsky, Yuri Kublanovsky and others) and authors who were not allowed to the official press.

Published in 12 copies in Moscow in 1979 by samizdat. Design of the almanac - Boris Messerer, David Borovsky.

One of the copies of the almanac was illegally exported to the USA and published by Ardis Publishing, first in a reprint way, and later in a new set. The fictionalized history of the Metropol almanac is contained in Vasily Aksenov's novel Say Raisins.

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