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Vitaly
Menshikov
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The great part of Vitaly Menshikov's
conscious life is dedicated to
the arts. From 1986 to 1993, Vitaly
was the columnist of the column
"Music, Literature, & Art" in
the "Uzbekistan's Youth" newspaper.
In the middle of the 1990s, he
worked on UZ-TV, being the author
and presenter of "Rock Prophet",
the program, which was for the
most part dedicated to Progressive
Rock. Vitaly is the author of
two books, "Rock Music" and "Progressive
Rock". Both of them were published
(in 1992 & 1997 respectively)
and distributed all over the CIS.
Since 1998, Vitaly is the editor
of ProgressoR - Uzbekistan Progressive
Rock Pages: an online progressive
music review database. Before
X Religion was formed (in 1997),
Vitaly was a permanent member
of the Progressive Rock band Edgar
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>Vitaly's favorite Rock bands (click!)
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Vitaly's
Top-10 Movies: |
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"Kin Dza Dza" (USSR, director George Dahneliya)
2. "The Stalker" (USSR, Andrey Tarkovsky)
3. "The Irony of Fate" (USSR, Eldar Ryazanov)
4. "One Million Years B. C." (UK, John Duffy)
5. "Solaris" (USSR, A. Tarkovsky)
6. "Oh Lucky Man" (UK, Lindsey Anderson)
7. "The Offering" (Sweden / USSR, A. Tarkovsky)
8. "Mirror For a Hero" (USSR, Vladimir Khotinenko)
9. "Patriotic Comedy" (USSR, V. Khotinenko)
10."A Clockwork Orange" (UK, Stanley Kubrick)
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Top-10 Books: |
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1.
"The Novels of Hodja Nasreddin"
(by Leonid Soloviev, USSR/Uzbekistan)
2. "Solaris" (Stanislaw Lem, Poland)
3. "The Damned Kings" (Maurice Druone, France)
4. "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco, Italy)
5. "Hard-Boiled Wonderland..." (Haruki Murakami, Japan)
7. "Cryptonomikon" (Neal Stephenson, USA)
6. "The Doomed City" (Arcady & Boris Strugatsky, USSR),
8. "Chapaev & The Emptiness" (Victor Pelevin, Russia)
9. "Master And Margarita" (Mikhail Bulghakov, Russia)
10."Separate Reality" (Carlos Castaneda, USA)
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Top-10 Sc-Fi Writers: |
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1. Arcady & Boris Strugatsky (Russia)
2. Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
3. Philip Dick (USA)
4. Victor Pelevin (Russia)
5. Evgeny Filenko (Russia)
6. Patrick O'Leary (UK)
7. Jeff Noon (UK)
8. Neal Stephenson (USA)
9. William Gibson (USA)
10.Robert Sheckley (USA)
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Top-10 Artists: |
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Salvador Dali (Spain)
2. Hieronimus Bosch (Holland)
3. Albrecht Durer (Germany)
4. Leonardo Da Vinci (Italy)
5. Roger Dean (UK)
6. Vladimir Finkilstein (Uzbekistan)
7. Rembrandt Van Rein
(Holland)
8. Peter Paul Rubens (Holland)
9. Boris Kustodiyev (Russia)
10. Raphael Santi (Italy)
Vitaly's Lyrics
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