Yuriy Klinskikh

Soviet and Russian musician, singer, songwriter, founder and permanent leader of the "Sektor Gaza" group. He was born in the family of engineer of the Voronezh Aviation Plant Nikolay Mitrofanovich Klinskikh and his wife Maria Kuzminichna Klinskikh. At school, Yuriy did not stand out anything special. He studied satisfactorily, but he had an irresistible passion for music.

His father instilled a passion for versification, he wrote poetry and tried to publish it. Yura learned early about the existence of Western rock culture, as rock and roll often sounded in the Klinskikh family. Soon after, he decided to master the guitar on his own. At the end of Voronezh secondary school 30, located in the VAI microdistrict, he worked at a factory and at the same time studied at DOSAAF as a ZIL-130 driver.

Before the army, he met his future wife Galina. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Far East (in Blagoveshchensk) in the tank troops (in the battalion of the educational process of the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School) as a driver. Retired in 1984. After serving in the army, Yuri worked for about three years as an inspector of the State Traffic Inspectorate, and in the last months of the contract he served in private security, then worked as a milling machine operator at the plant.

He recorded an acoustic album on a tape recorder in 1981 and partially re-recorded it in 1985. On December 5, a concert was held at the Voronezh Rock Club, at which Yuri performed several songs of his own composition. For six months, he performed solo under the name "Sektor gaza", obtained thanks to the nickname of the part of the Left Bank region of Voronezh, known for the tense environmental situation and the criminal situation.

The first electrical composition of the team was formed only in June 1988 and subsequently changed frequently. The group of Yuri Klinskikh received universal fame in 1990 after the release of the albums "Zloveshchii mertvetsy" and "Yadryona Vosh." The success of a simple Voronezh guy was made possible thanks to Gorbachev's perestroika, hungry for forbidden topics.

There was no censorship for him; he sang about everything and everything. Due to the abundance of profanity in the lyrics, the Gaza Strip remained in the underground for a long time. Yuri Klinsky in those years worked first in a consumer electronics factory, then as a loader; music did not bring money. Until 1991, the group did not give concerts outside Voronezh (with the exception of the only performance in Cherepovets in 1989).

Records of the "Sektor Gaza" were distributed throughout the country by fans. The whole USSR knew Yuriy's songs, and for the first time the fans didn't imagine how their idol looks.