Translated by Stepan M. Pechkin

Main idea of translation was to help a foreigner coming to unknown city to find the place he'll be most likely met by good people, in a least spans of time and difficulty.

Attention, disclamer!

Neither I, nor other compilers and correspondents of this document are not and cannot be (notwithstanding their personal will, if any) in charge for any changes caused to this list by inner and foreign affairs of Russia and neighbouring states.

Information for the main part of the given List was received from ANTON KROTOV (Moscow).
He also bears no responsibility for the reliability of given lodgings (vpiska)!

Copying and broadcasting of the List is allowed and greeted.

Everybody who has additional information on given places of tusovkas and on other tusovkas is asked to convey it to Aleksandr Netuzhilov (voice phone (7) (812) 273-8111, FIDO 2:5030/497.57), or Anton Krotov (voice phone (7) (095) 457-8949),

or also straight to me, Stepan M. Pechkin: e-mail s.pechkin@gmail.com, Fido 2:405/333.21, 2:5020/644.51.

We thank all the people who helped to gather this List

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CITY COUNTRY Tusovka's place PHONE CODE FidoNet
ASTRAKHAN' Russia "Sovremennik" shop, Sovetskaya st, (7) 8510 2:50/33?.*
BAKHCHISARAY Ukraina kooperativ "Restid", Lenina st., 42
BOBRUYSK Belorussia Rock-Club: Gorodskoi Dom Kul'tury (=Municipal Culture House) – Komsomolskaya st., 26, phone 76609
TCHITA "Arbat" - a square opposite Teatr Dramy (=Drama Theatre) near the central Lenin square
KHABAROVSK OKDOR (Okruzhnoj Dom Ofitserov Rossiyskoy Armii = Regional Russian Army Officers' House) Park, near Tsentralny Park Kul'tury i Otdykha (=the Central Recreation and Culture park), at the head of Muravyov-Amursky str.
VILNIUS Punk-Tusovka: Domashkiavichus 7,
construction area; apt. 1, Tomas "Gavrosh"		 (370) 2 2:471/*.*
DNEPROPETROVSK Ukraina Central Gastronom (380) 562 2:464/*.*
DONETSK Ukraina caffee "Bashnia" near hotel "Donbass" (Center, Lenina st.) (380) 622 2:465/*.*
YEKATERINBURG Russia restaurant "Uralmash", Kul'tury blvd, from the square opposite the restaurant;
"Plita" (Deviatsot Piatovo Goda sq; Lenina st., 50);
Student hostel of UrGU (Bolshakova st.)		 (7) 343 2:5080/*.*
KAZAN' Russia University, monument of Lenin (7) 8432 2:5049/*.*
KIYEV Ukraina Kreschatik;
Maidan Nezalezhnisti (Ruletka)		 (380) 44 2:463/*.*
MINSK Belorussia "Oktiabr'skaya" subway station (375) 172 2:450/*.*
NIZHNY NOVGOROD Russia Bolshaya Pokrovskaya st. (7) 831 2:5015/*.*
OMSK Russia Lenina sq. (7) 3812 2:5004/*.*
PETROZAVODSK Karelia fountain on Lenina sq.,
University		 (7) 81422 2:5038/*.*
PSKOV Russia corner of Pushkina and Lenina st. – "Beirut" (7) 8112 2:5033/*.*
RYAZAN' Russia in Kremlin area, on evenings (7) 0912 2:5029/*.*
SARATOV Russia "Stoilo" – Kirova pr., cinema "Pioner" (7) 8452 2:5053/*.*
TALLINN Estonia Ratushnaya sq., caffee "Moskva" (372) 6 2:490/*.*
TULA Russia cinema "Kosmos" (7) 0872 2:5022/*.*
UFA Bashkortostan Lenina sq. (7) 3472 2:5011/*.*
CHELYABINSK Russia trolleybus stop "Aloye Pole" (7) 3512 2:5010/*.*
YAROSLAVL' Russia caffee "Bristol'", Center

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From : LLeo 2:5020/313.8 Tue 04 Feb 97 03:36
To : Sasha Pyriaev Thu 06 Feb 97 00:48
Subj : tusovka places (Moscow)
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Sasha!
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SP> Moscow – Arbat (Old),

- middle part, near "Bubliki". Arbat is a long thing. In the beginning goes "redneck" part, there they play jailhouse music, and there stand rednecks, next –unidentified tusovkas, Bubliki and surrounding – clearly hippy places, well sometimes some nirvanists gathering there, opposite the theatre gather rather hi-lifers, and forward to the end – hi-life area.

SP> Kropa (monument of Elvis);

very rarely, especially in winter, but then you must climb up to the roof, in summer there is somebody up there almost always.

SP> Novosibirsk – near Opera Theatre,

In Moscow there is also tusovka near Bolshoy Theatre. Gays are gathering there ;)

LLeo LLeo@aha.ru
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From : Sasha Pyriaev 2:5030/262 Tue 11 Feb 97 12:16
To : Boris V. Faddeev Wed 12 Feb 97 12:08
Subj : tusovka places (St.Petersburg, Crimea)
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Hello Boris!

Tue Feb 11 1997 13:56, Boris V. Faddeev wrote to Sasha Pyriaev:

BVF> Caffee "Koshka" (Belinskovo st.)

"Rim", "El'f", "Saigon",... :(

"Rim" – caffee that was situated opposite Lensoveta Culture Palace on Kamennoostrovsky pr., "Petrogradskaya" subway station. Functioned up to 1997; tusovka ceased much earlier, some in 1988.

"El'f" – garden near the caffee "El'f", corner of Dmitrovsky per. and Stremyannaya st. Tusovka ceased about 1990.

"Saigon" – caffee on the corner of Nevsky and Vladimirsky prospects. Functioned since 1969 up to 1989. Now they sell Russian and other music there, which is much better than lavatory and bathroom equipment, as in 1993-1996. Though this also doesn't fit to the place that for 20 years was a center, a Mecca, is glorified in numerous songs and innumerous poems; I don't know what do they do in Greenwich Village, though...

BVF> "Abbey-Road" (Liteiny and Nekrasova corner),
BVF> stairs of Inzhenerny Castle (have you forgot? :-)

Well, then add "Klimat" – subway exit to Griboyedova Channel from station "Gostiny Dvor"

BVF> Feodosia (summer) – on the embankment, near Aivazovsky's museum

Koktebel' (summer) – "Piatak" (on Broadway) – not far from Voloshin's house (in the evenings they have jam-sessions there),

Green zone – right turn after all beaches (after nudist beach) when face to the sea (it is a tent camp),

Lisya Bay (Liska) – ~8 km to the left (past Karadag) near village Shebetovka.

Simeiz (summer) – central (IMHO) hippy place in Crimea, left from the town past the mountain Koshka (=Cat Mountain), near Goluboi Zaliv (=Blue Bay) ("Volchya Past'" (=Wolf's Gorge), rocks, below the lower road) and the forest above it (camps, which are also tusovkas).

Foros (summer) – jam-sessions in the town near gastronom (close to the market), and the camps are commonly left from the town, past border guard watchtower, and higher in the mountain, for the grey uniforms are in lots below.

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Subject: tusovki in Vladivostok
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 12:20:44 -1000
From: Walter Moreblack <erofeev@phys.dvgu.ru>
Organization: Hippy-tusovka
To: s.pechkin@gmail.com

1 Plakha near White house,Swetlanskaya st

2 Tucha near dvorca kultury railroadman,sunday

From: NC2 
To: s.pechkin@gmail.com
Subject: http://../../../x/hip/travel/tusovki.htm

In Odessa fair people is being-in at the following points of space.

  1. "Taverna" – drinking-feeding house. Relatively cheep and more or less consolating. !Opens about dinner time (when the personnel revives after yesterday's)! Easy to find: Petra Velikogo st. (now Dvoryanskaya), in the block between Sadovaya and Pastera sts. Two steps from Deribasovskaya and City Garden.
  2. "Lyapun" – Lyapunovski Sad (=Lyapunov Garden). In winter few are gathering there, though :) Situated near "Taverna", Pastera st., in the Odessa State University yard..
  3. City Garden (Deribasovskaya st.), and especially "Podkova" situated there. Kind of open ring equipped with seats, with grand tree in the center. City Garden is an interesting place itself (kind of Arbat).
  4. "Tolkodrom" – naturally, for tolkienauts. Big flat ground dug with shoes and noses of elves and nazguls. You find it a bit above Langeron beach (above beach road) and a bit below Shevchenko Park. 
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