Сектор Газа
The name of the group comes from the industrial Levoberezhny district of Voronezh, which the people jokingly called the "Gaza Strip" because of the abundance of smoking factories. Yuri Klinskikh lived in this area, as well as the Voronezh rock club. The name "Gaza Strip" was also inspired by the popularity of the eponymous Palestinian region, which became a "hot spot" and a frequent topic of the Soviet media of that era.
At first, the "Gaza Strip" actually consisted of one Klinsky, who sometimes performed with the bass player of another Voronezh group "Decree on Peace" Mikhail Fink. The first permanent line-up was formed not on December 27, 1989, as many sources indicate, but in June 1988, when drummer Oleg Kryuchkov and bass player Semyon Titievsky joined Yuri Klinsky. Sergey Tupikin also joins the group as a guitarist. The band performs at a local rock club and quickly becomes its "star". In 1989 the group recorded the magnetic albums "Plows-Woogie" and "Collective Farm Punk". In the midst of the recording, Sergei Tupikin on the guitar is replaced by Igor Kushchev.
In 1990, the group recorded the Evil Dead and Yadryona Louse albums at the Black Box professional studio in Voronezh, which subsequently quickly spread throughout the country. In order to rent a studio, Yuri had to sell his own motorcycle "Java".
Songs by Yura Khoy, which are stylized descriptions of the life of the lower classes and the Russian provinces, containing colloquial and profanity, were popular with many. At the same time, the group did not have the opportunity to perform outside Voronezh for a long time, its members were little known.
In 1991 the group got the opportunity to record the album "The Night Before Christmas" in Moscow at the Mir studio. Producer Fidel Simonov takes the group under his wing. Soon the group begins an active tour. Not long before this, the team left Oleg Kryuchkov, who was replaced by Alexander Yakushev, who had helped the group earlier, replacing Kryuchkov at concerts. Immediately after the recording of the album "The Night Before Christmas" bass-guitarist Semyon Titievsky was fired from the group, and the already famous Sergei Tupikin was invited to take his place. Also in the summer, due to creative disagreements, Igor Kushchev leaves the group, in whose place the Moscow guitarist Vladimir Lobanov (ex-Legion) is invited to the concert line-up. The place of the keyboardist is occupied by Alexey Ushakov, who, like Alexander Yakushev, has been working with the group in session since 1989. In the same year the group entered Gala Records, the first private record company in the Soviet Union. At the studio "Gala Records" in August 1991 the album "Kolkhozny punk" was re-recorded, which is also published on vinyl (at the "Melodiya" recording company) with a circulation of 100,000 copies. (without the song "Walpurgis Night"). For the first time, session guitarist Igor Zhirnov was involved in the recording of this album, who subsequently participated in the recording of all the other albums. The clip ("Kolkhozny Punk"), shot in 1992 for the title song from the album, shown on the Central Television (in the "50x50" program), makes the group famous throughout the country. In 1994, all the albums of the group that existed at that time were reissued by Gala Records on CD (the discs were printed in Austria).
Since 1996, Klinskikh has somewhat changed the style of the group, many of the lyrics become more serious and are cleared of mat. The result of these experiments is the album Gas Attack, which later became commercially successful for the first time in the entire history of the group. Songs from the album “30 Years”, “Life”, “Your Call”, “Fog” become hits, and the video for the last song gets into the rotation of many Russian TV channels. Despite all this, the representatives of the music industry and the public continue to associate Sector with bawdy songs.
In 1997, the group released the album "Narcological University of Millions", in which they slightly returned to banter and everyday topics, but there were very few obscene expressions. The main hit of the album was the song that continued the "military theme" of the group - "Time to go home", which later became "folk". The group performed this song at such large events as the Sound Track festival in Luzhniki (1998) and a group concert on Red Square, timed to coincide with Victory Day (1999).
The August 1998 crisis hit the team seriously. Hoy reduced the band to guitarist and keyboardist, and the remix collection Extasy, recorded in the summer of 1998, was only released a year later, in November 1999. The last album "Hellraiser" was recorded in 2000 and was released after the death of Yuri Klinskikh, who died on July 4, 2000 from a heart attack.
June 25, 2000 Yuri Klinskikh goes on stage for the last time. This is happening in Moscow, at the small sports arena in Luzhniki, as part of the Sound Track concert at the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper festival. He comes out alone, just like at the very beginning of his career, begins to sing "Demobilization", after the first verse the phonogram suddenly breaks off, after the second attempt the same thing happens, Yuri was never able to finish the performance. It was essentially a farewell to the stage, ten days later Yuri Klinsky was gone.
