Musician, poet, composer, founder and permanent leader of the Gaza Strip group.
“It’s probably better to live without having anything... You become free, like an animal, like a bird... The sky... A lot of time for creativity...” Yuri Klinskikh.
His mother Maria Kuzminichna was a housewife, and his father Nikolai Mitrofanovich Klinskikh was an engineer who worked at the Voronezh aircraft plant. Yuri was not the only son of the Klinsky couple; he had two older brothers. Since childhood, Yuri grew up as a smart and inquisitive boy, interested in everything he could see. At school, Yuri did not stand out in anything special, he studied with C grades and took home “failures” for his behavior. In his diploma of secondary education there was only one “B” in work. Yuri often did not go to his first lessons, but stayed at home late with books. He was honest and tried never to lie.
The older brothers introduced Yura to music from a young age; rock and roll could often be heard in the Klinsky house. All three brothers besides Soviet music listened The group Beatles and Deep Purple - first on records, then on reels. Father taught youngest son to poetry, the study of literature and the rules of versification. He himself wrote poetry all his life, published, but without special success. The lessons given by Nikolai Mitrofanovich later manifested themselves in the rollicking songs of his son, which, despite the “ugliness” in the opinion literary critics, the content had “impeccable style and style.”
If Yuri’s father helped with the syllable, then vacations in the village, where Yuri often went for the whole summer, helped with the content. Another source of inspiration for Yuri was horror films - first Soviet, such as "Viy", then - any that could be obtained on cassettes. Hoy learned to play the guitar in school and composed his first songs at the same time.
After graduating from school and studying at DOSAAF, where Yuri received a driver's license, Yuri was drafted into the army in tank forces.
His unit was stationed at Far East. Shortly before serving in the army, he met his future wife Galina. Without any incidents, Yuri served in Blagoveshchensk as a tank driver and was demobilized in 1984.
After the army, Yuri went to work in the traffic police, but did not fit in with the police. “To work in the police, you need bad person be. There are, of course, normal people there, but they don’t belong there,” Yuri later said. He himself always loved speed and cars, tried not to fine drivers who slightly exceeded the speed limit, and felt sorry for people from villages. At the same time, he did not like to fawn over his superiors. One day, Yuri stopped the mayor of Voronezh, who was driving through a red light. And to the question: “Do you know who I am?”, he answered that he didn’t want to know. Another time he stopped an important priest, and both times he got into trouble. In addition, Hoy could never fulfill the plan for fines assigned by the traffic police management. Three years of working in the police were real hard labor for him.
For the last few months of his service in the internal affairs bodies, Yuri served in private security, counting the days until his new demobilization. As Nikolai Mitrofanovich later recalled, Yuri barely worked his last day at the police station, came home, took off his uniform, threw it on the floor and began to trample it with his feet. Having finished what he considered to be a bad job, Yuri worked as a milling machine operator, a CNC machine operator at Videofon, and a loader. IN free time he wrote songs and played guitar. He bought a Volga-31 and almost crashed it on a Moscow highway somewhere near Tula. Yuri sold the car restored after the accident, and after that he tried to stay away from domestic car brands. Among his next cars were a red diesel VolksWagen Golf III and a white Daewoo Nexia with power accessories and air conditioning.
In his free time from part-time jobs, Yuri watched mystical or horror films, played billiards and studied music. In the period from 1981 to 1985, he recorded the acoustic album “Years Pass Like a Moment...” on a tape recorder. And when a rock club opened in Voronezh, Yuri became a regular. At a spring concert in 1987, he played for the first time several songs that he began writing at the same time - in February and March. As Yuri later said, he did not like the poverty of the themes of amateur groups and he decided to enrich the rock club with his participation. “I wrote my first poem at school, I remember something about spring. Then, before the army, I learned to play the guitar and tried to do something. But the songs were primitive, about love, all that little stuff. Then, when I returned from the army, I worked at a factory and didn’t think about anything. When the rock club opened I looked at amateur groups, I didn’t like their poor themes, I remember they sang something about peace, about love, about something so incomprehensible. I decided to shake off the old days. And since I already had experience, I began to do quite well. Everyone liked it, and that’s how it all went…” Yuri later said.
Yuri sang solo at the club or invited someone. On December 5, 1987, he assembled the first lineup of his “Gaza Strip” and sang the songs “I am scum,” “Crazy Corpse,” “Drowned Man” and “Collective Farm Punk” on the stage of a rock club. “I never considered myself a punk...” Yuri said.
At first, “Sektor Gaza” performed as an opening act for groups that came to Voronezh, such as “Zvuki Mu” and “Children”. The name “Gaza Strip” was a “mysterious combination” for Yura and, at the same time, its Voronezh reality. In his childhood, it was heard because of the Arab-Israeli confrontation, which was often talked about on the radio. And in Voronezh this was the name given to an industrial zone with a large number of factories and smoking chimneys, and a corresponding criminal atmosphere, where a rock club was located. In general, it was easy for Yuri to come up with a name for his team. According to him, it was "a local name for a band that had no intention of going beyond the urban rock club6a." Subsequently, the composition of the Gaza Strip underwent many changes throughout its existence, but the soloist and leader of the group always remained alone: Yuri Khoy selected people for himself.
Two years later, by 1989, the group recorded two “cassette” albums - “Plows-Woogies” and “Collective Farm Punk”. The quality of the recordings was terrible, and they were sold exclusively in Voronezh. The team's breakthrough was the album "The Evil Dead", released in 1990.
Many works, especially from the early songs, were autobiographical for Yuri. The songs “Java” and “Ment” were written after Yuri left the sobering center, and the songs “Yadrena Vosh” and “Took the Blame” were dedicated to his brother. At that time, Yuri himself tried to “seduce” himself and “ lyrical hero" - "a kind of monster in smelly socks, who suffered from all known sexually transmitted diseases and developed impotence." He said that singing about human vices does not mean endorsing them. For Yura, such songs were, rather, some special way of dealing with them.
Hoy never considered himself a classic “punk”. “Perhaps at the beginning of creativity, pure “punk” was visible here and there,” he said in his interviews. Basically, Yuri did what he personally liked, without being attached to the style. And indeed - in musically his albums were quite varied. Yura himself defined the style of his team as “fusion”.
We were born with swear words, we live with swear words.
We learned with swear words, and with swear words we will die.
We ate the matershin with mother's milk.
With obscenities, my dad hit my mother with his fist.
Role models and favorite music for Hoy were Western groups- Rage Against The Machine, Biohazard, AC/DC and Alice Cooper. IN last years Yura was influenced by heavy rap with its blues, clear rhythms and rock guitars, and throughout his career he loved punk and death metal. In an interview, Yuri said: “Gaza Strip” is not even a group, but one of my projects. Even now I cannot say that “Sector” is a group. This is more of a live lineup, because I always work alone in the studio. And since 1992 I have been inviting Igor Zhirnov, guitarist of the group “Rondo”. I’m not at all a supporter of changing musicians, as, say, BG does. If someone left, it was only of their own free will. The main thing in a team is that the person is not a jerk. After all, sometimes a tour can drag on for several weeks or even more. And to be next to someone like that - no, sorry.”
The nickname “Khoy” clung to Yura immediately and quite firmly. In general, this exclamation was then used by many performers - from Venya D'rkin to Yegor Letov, borrowing either from Oi! British cockney music, or from BG’s philosophies, but only Yuri Klinskikh made it a pseudonym. “Hoy, the month is new! Hanging – nailed!” said Venya D’rkin. As Yuri himself said: “Hoy” is just an exclamation, I often say it during songs. The fact that it reminds someone of Tsoi (with whom Yura was personally, albeit occasionally, acquainted) is an accident.” However, in the last years of his life, Yuri began to use the pseudonym less “so that there would be no problems with traffic cops.” Otherwise, they’ll stop him, and he’ll say, “What are you guys talking about, I’m the lead singer in the Gaza Strip.” And they - “You’re lying! Hoy is singing there.”
After the success of the albums “The Evil Dead” and “Yadrena Vosh”, which Yuri sent to Moscow with the help of his friend, the group began performing at various parties, but Yuri quickly got tired of it. "When we reached big stage, then a person who had previously worked only with “pop” and who began to feel sick at the word “rock and roll” began to work with us,” Yuri Khoy said in an interview.
Yuri did not want to move to Moscow, “the depraved city of insolent youth,” although he took advantage of the opportunity to record at the Mir studio. His recordings were published by one of the first Russian labels - Gala Records. Yuri began to have legal concerts, and with him - concerts of fake "Khoys" in cities. Yuri himself did not like to “shine” and deliberately supported the growth of rumors and legends about his group. Due to the huge sales on cassettes, everyone knew his group, but most of the audio media were released by pirates. Hoy did not complain, he lived from the interest that Gala Records paid him after the sale of rights in Moscow, official releases at Black Box in Voronezh and numerous concerts. “I’m not ashamed of my city, I’ve lived in it all my life, and I’ll most likely die in it...”, said Yuri.
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During creative activity The group toured many cities in Russia and abroad - in Belarus, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and Estonia. The albums were released in 1994, then were re-released by Gala Records in 1997.
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“Press the Gas” and “Collective Farm Punk” were also published in 1991 and 1993 - already on CDs and the same cassettes. In 1991, at his concert in Moscow, Yuri met Olga Samarina, whom he subsequently met in the last years of his life, without hiding this from his wife Galina.
The popularity of the Gaza Strip group grew very quickly. It is known that Vladimir Zhirinovsky was delighted with the songs of the Gaza Strip, and the apolitical Khoy “reciprocated” the leader of the LDPR, but for money. Yura did not have his own political preferences, sending all politics “...to hell. With a gimlet!
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Political system he was quite pleased because he had the opportunity to earn good money from his talent. “It makes no difference to us who we play for; we are far from politics. If Zhirinovsky pays, we play for Zhirinovsky; if another faction pays, we’ll play for them,” said Yuri Khoy. However, Hoy believed that if he had to get stuck as a loader, then, of course, he would be dissatisfied with the government.
Everyone says: everything is very good in the West.
Whoever says this to me like that, I will crush you into powder!
Everything that is Soviet is good - cars and pants,
Everything may be expensive, but it’s all ours, boys.
As their popularity grew, Hoy's songs became virtually folk music, music of demobilization, vocational school students, students and rural youth. Zhlobrokgroup - this is how the Gaza Strip was often ironically called - a group that Hoy himself compared to porn, and which was not accepted by either rock or pop music. Even Yuri Nikulin liked the group’s work. After Yuri Khoy played a concert at the Nikulin Circus, famous artist invited young man to your dressing room. Amid words of admiration and gratitude, Nikulin took out a bottle of cognac and invited Khoy to talk. The artist himself was so flattered by these compliments that he often told his friends and relatives about this incident.
Yuri Khoy's songs amazed listeners with their frankness. He opened the deepest hiding places with surgical precision human soul, which were not talked about in the USSR. His work aroused either deep interest or protest from the audience. The artistry of the group leader and only live performances were the opposite of the concerts of performers performing to a soundtrack. Yuri Khoy also caused a stir off stage: for example, during one of his last concerts in Voronezh, he rode around the city on a horse, portraying Koshchei the Immortal. Regarding his image, Yuri Khoy had a very interesting position - he tried to talk less about the group, believing that the absence complete information creates more excitement in the listener.
It is known that Yuri wanted to play in a concert with the groups DDT or “Alice”, but he was not invited, and he did not ask for it. In 1994, he recorded the punk opera “Kashchei the Immortal,” which was a thrash mixture of Russian fairy tales and music in the spirit of AC/DC, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ace Of Base. It was planned to create a video for this “fairy tale,” but Yuri’s death prevented this. He managed to film only a few scenes, and now there are working video versions of the tracks on the Internet: “Aria of Ivan and the Frogs,” “Second Aria of Ivan” and “Third Aria of Ivan.”
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Hoy shot a video for the song “Fog” - with black and white chronicle Russian wars. In total, “Gaza Strip” released 4 videos. The fifth video for the song “Fright Night” was not completed due to the singer’s death.
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Since 1996, Yuri Khoy changed the style of the group several times, many of the texts became more serious and were cleared of obscenities. The result of these experiments was the album “Gas Attack”, which later became the most commercially successful in the history of the group. In 1999, Yuri Klinskikh became a character in the comic book “The Adventures of Yura Khoy in the Kingdom of Evil.” The comic consisted of fabulous adventures, the hero of which was the leader of the Gaza Strip himself, collecting his albums. The author of the comic was artist Dmitry Samborsky.
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In the late 1990s, Sektor Gaza released a number of techno remixes featuring Voronezh DJ Krot. In the last years of his life, Yuri decided to change his image and sound. Instead of a biker jacket, torn jeans, old T-shirts and army boots, expensive black shoes, dark trousers and a shirt appeared in his wardrobe. Instead of the rollicking “collective farm” punk, listeners were offered the “cool heavy stuff” of the latest album. “I always strived for a heavy sound,” said Yuri Khoy.
By the end of the 1990s, friends began to suspect he had a severe drug addiction. In addition, as friends believed, his companion Olga was a drug addict. “I’ve tried almost every drug, but I’m not used to anything and I’m not going to get used to it. I tried it and that’s enough,” said Yuri Khoy.
In 2000, Yuri was full of the most rosy plans. For three years he hatched the concept of a new album, which was originally supposed to be called “Poor Yurik”. In 1998, Yuri changed the name to “Hellraiser”, deciding to make a completely mystical rap album, which Yuri completed in June 2000. But I never saw its release.
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For the release of this thirteenth album, Hoy planned to shoot a video clip. He now has sponsors who are willing to invest significant resources in advertising. On July 4, 2000, he was going to go to the shooting of the video clip “Night of Fright” at the Voronezh Art-Prize studio. Operator Oleg Zolotarev, on the air of the “Tower” program on RTR in the fall of 2000, recalled working together over the “Fright Night” video: “Already in June, he called me and said that we would urgently, urgently shoot a video. On June 22, they started filming for the first time. Last time The shooting was scheduled just for the day of his death. We agreed on four hours a day. I sat waiting for him. He waited, waited, waited... Andrei Deltsov called instead and said that Yura was no more.”
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On July 4, the shooting was scheduled for 16:00, Khoy himself and his girlfriend Olga Samarina were supposed to take part in it. Before filming, they had to visit the make-up artist at the Theater for Young Spectators. In the morning, Yuri felt unwell, he was pale, his forehead was covered with sweat, he could not understand what was happening to him, but after taking an aspirin tablet, he decided to go anyway.
At 11:30, Yuri Khoy and Olga Samarina left their rented apartment on Dorozhnaya Street, in the South-Western district. By car they went to the make-up artist, a meeting with whom was scheduled for 12:00. At 11:40 on the road, Yuri felt worse and worse and decided to change the route. He turned onto Barnaulskaya Street, where his acquaintance Andrei Ksenz lived in the private sector. Hoy came into his house and immediately lay down on the sofa, unable to stand on his feet. He was tormented by severe pain in his left side and stomach. Olga was nearby. Soon she went into another room for cigarettes, and there she heard a crash - Yuri fell to the floor, losing consciousness.
Olga and the owner of the house unsuccessfully tried to bring Khoy back to life, giving him artificial respiration. They tried to call an ambulance, however, they flatly refused to write down the address with a dubious reputation as a drug den. On the fifth try, Samarina still managed to convey the address. She ran out into the street to meet the ambulance. At this time, Yuri died.
Later, in official medical documents it was written: “Sudden death.” As for the unofficial version, there were many of them. All that can be said for sure is that Yuri was killed by his lifestyle, frantic touring, working hard - in the last 10 years, at concerts, Hoy always gave his best and never looked after his health. The consequences of his tumultuous youth could not help but affect him: “Since I was 23, I don’t remember being sober for a day,” this is how Hoy described his youth.
I'm a very modest guy
I'm a very quiet guy.
In general, when I'm sober, I'm a pure standard.
But often I go wild, but often I go wild,
As soon as the chatter stops, I'll drop off the balloon.
He began to monitor his health only at the most Lately when it was already late. In addition, during a tour of the Far East in the fall of 1999, Yuri fell ill with hepatitis C.
Yuri Khoy, who adored heavy sound and heavy rap, speed, simple words and mystical horrors, even “made” his own death look like an unassuming “horror film”. The sum of the digits of its date was 13, his last album - “Hellraiser” - contained 13 songs, was the 13th album, released in the 13th year of the existence of “SG”, and two memorial day– 9 and 40 fell on the 13th.
Yuri Khoy was buried at the Left Bank cemetery in Voronezh.
Yuri's wife Galina never married after his death and lived with her youngest daughter. Yuri had two daughters. Irina became a psychologist after graduating from the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. Lily in this moment studies. U eldest daughter Yuri's son Matvey was born in 2011.
In memory of Yuri Klinskikh, a documentary television program was created, shown on October 20, 2000 on the RTR television channel as part of the “Tower” project. And in June 2002, the group “Gas Attack Sector” released its debut album, which it dedicated to the memory of Yuri.
In 2004, the book “Gaza Strip through the eyes of loved ones” was published.” The book contained memories of Yuri Klinsky’s loved ones, articles, interviews, little known facts from the life of the Gaza Strip group and its leader, memories of fans, poems dedicated to Yuri Klinskikh. In 2005, the recording studio “Gala Records” released a tribute album to the group “Gaza Strip”, which included such groups and performers as “NAIV”, “Bricks”, Sergey Kagadeev (“NOM”), “Mongol Shuudan”, “ Bakhyt-Kompot”, Igor Kushchev (ex-“Gaza Strip”) and other groups. On June 30, 2006, on the DTV channel in the television program “How the Idols Left,” a story about the work of Yuri Klinsky was aired.
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On October 5, 2008, a short film was dedicated to the memory of Yuri Klinskikh, shown on the NTV channel in the TV show “The Main Hero”.
On December 6, 2012, a concert dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Gaza Strip group was held in St. Petersburg. On July 26, 2014, in the city of Samara, in the rock bar “Podval”, a concert was held entitled “I’m 50!”, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the leader of the legendary “Gaza Strip” Yuri Klinskikh, with the participation of Samara groups and performers.
On July 27, 2014, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Yuri Klinskikh, a monument in the form of a full-length sculpture was erected, and a festival in memory of Yuri Khoy was held.
Text prepared by Andrey Goncharov
Used materials:
Materials from the site www.bestpeopleofrussia.ru
Text of the article by Vyacheslav Chesh
Materials from the site www.hoy-sektor.ru
Materials from the site www.sektorgaza.net
Materials from the Wikipedia site
Yuri Klinskikh was born in 1964 in Voronezh. He got his first guitar at the age of 13, but before founding his group, Klinskikh worked for three years as a traffic police inspector and one year in private security, then as a milling machine operator, a CNC machine operator at the Voronezh "Videophone", a loader, and in his spare time wrote songs. He perceived his creativity as a hobby, without even dreaming of big stage.
After the opening of a rock club in Voronezh, he became a regular. In the spring of 1987, a concert took place at the club, at which Yuri performed several songs own composition. For two years he performed solo or with guest musicians. The first composition of the group, called the “Gas Sector” (the group received this name in honor of one of the districts of Voronezh, where a local enterprise often made emissions into the air), met on December 5, 1987 and subsequently changed frequently. As for the pseudonym, it came from Yuri’s signature cry: “Hoy!”, which he often uttered during his performances.
"Sector" quickly gained popularity. In two years, Yura's team "Khoya" became a legend in Voronezh. The group gained universal fame in 1990 after the release of the albums “The Evil Dead” and “Yadrena Vosh”, which Yura sent to Moscow with the help of his friend. In 1991, Sektor Gaza recorded an album in the capital's Mir studio; soon the group's recordings were published by one of Russia's first commercial recording companies, Gala Records, after which the group's popularity increased significantly and it was able to legally give concerts. The albums "Collective Farm Punk" and "Press the Gas" were released in 1991 and 1993, respectively, on LP, CD and cassette. During these years, Sektor played classic punk rock.
In June 1994, Yuri recorded the punk opera "Kashchei the Immortal" as a new album. Later, Yuri wanted to create a video version of this album, but his death prevented this. He managed to film only a few scenes, and now there are video versions of the tracks on the Internet: “Aria of Ivan and the Frogs,” “Second Aria of Ivan” and “Third Aria of Ivan.”
However, Sektor also has other songs. So “It’s Time to Go Home” and “Demobilization” became real hits among military personnel. According to Hoy, in the late 90s, thousands of military personnel came to his concert and asked to sing these very songs.
"Gaza Strip" could have been much more successful commercially. But 99% of the group’s records were distributed on pirated albums, and “doubles” of the group actively toured the country. Once “Sector” in one of the cities of Russia crossed paths with his double - it ended in a fight.
Unfortunately, the last years of the group's existence were overshadowed big problems. "Gaza Strip" constantly changed musicians, the group often performed to a soundtrack, and Yuri Khoy himself became a heroin addict, for which many blame his second wife.
According to the official version, Yuri Khoy died of a heart attack. However, according to another version, the cause of the musician’s death was hepatitis caused by chronic drug use. During the attack, the ambulance simply did not have time to arrive to him.
Participants in the popular mystical show “Battle of Psychics” were trying to find out the cause of the death of the lead singer of the Gaza Strip group, Yuri Khoy. Two daughters of Yuri Khoy, Irina and Lilia, and his son-in-law came to the program, where people who allegedly have the gift of clairvoyance find explanations for unusual phenomena. The musician’s relatives wanted to figure out who regularly breaks the tombstone at the grave of the punk rock legend and why the cause of his death is still unknown.
According to relatives and fans of Yuri Khoy, after his death they were given only a death certificate, and the results of the autopsy were allegedly lost. The circumstances of that tragedy are shrouded in mystery. The musician died on July 4, 2000 in one of the private houses on Barnaulskaya Street. On this day, he was going to go to the shooting of the video clip “Night of Fright” at the Voronezh Art-Prize studio. According to the official version, the musician died of a heart attack, although nothing was previously known about heart problems. According to the unofficial version, Yuri took drugs and suffered from hepatitis, which was the cause of death. Hoy missed his 36th birthday by 23 days.
Yuri Klinsky's relatives brought to the show's studio the last broken monument that stood at the musician's grave. The presenters covered the marble slab with a cloth and asked the participants of the “Battle” to guess what was under it. Various participants shows expressed similar versions - “connected with death”, “mysterious death”, etc. Someone even said that the Gaza Strip group was under a curse.
However, some psychics surprised the musician’s daughters with almost one hundred percent guessing of some events in Khoy’s life. For example, they described the accidents he got into, talked about his experiences due to love triangle. Spectators were amazed by the precise hits of some clairvoyants. So, one of them even “saw” white cat, Khoy’s favorite pet, the animal died just six months ago. She also predicted that other members of the group would gradually follow the leader of the group. The hosts of the show associated her phrase “the chain has not yet closed” with the fact that shortly before the broadcast, the group’s keyboard player Igor Anikeev died.
Some participants in the show explained the death of the musician by his musical activity. Allegedly, he always played with death: he sang on behalf of the dead, collected a collection of horror films, and wrote poems about the afterlife. However, the proceedings were put to rest by a psychic who spoke about many moments in Klinsky’s biography when he managed to avoid death. The clairvoyant voiced a completely non-mystical version of the reasons for the musician’s death - alcohol and drugs. Relatives agreed with this conclusion.
December 19, 2014, 20:13Yuri Klinskikh was born on July 27, 1964 in Voronezh into the family of Nikolai Mitrofanovich, an engineer and riveter at the Voronezh Aviation Plant, and Maria Kuzminichna Klinskikh. At school, Yuri studied satisfactorily, but he had an irresistible passion for music. A passion for poetry was instilled in him by his father, who wrote poetry and tried to publish. Yura learned early about the existence of Western rock culture, since rock and roll was often heard in the Klinsky family. A careless student, a hooligan firmly believed in music. He, a desperate music lover, soon decided to learn the guitar himself.
After graduating from school and having studied at DOSSAFE, “for the sake of free rights,” Yuri exchanges the ZIL-130 for a tank for two years. Yura served in the Far East, DMB-84.
After serving in the army, he worked for three years as a traffic police inspector, then as a milling machine operator, a CNC operator at the Voronezh Videoton, which manufactured VM-12 video recorders, and as a loader. He works during the day and writes songs at night. He doesn’t dream of a big stage; he perceives his music playing as a hobby, as an outlet from the drab life.
Along with the opening of the Voronezh rock club, Yura's group "Gas Sector" appeared, the name of which was the location of the club - an industrial district of Voronezh with heavily smoking factories.
“The mysterious combination “Gaza Strip” has been on my lips since childhood, when the Arab-Israeli conflict was going on and endlessly geographical name repeated on the radio. There is the “Gaza Strip” in Voronezh - that’s the name of the industrial zone. This is a local name for a group that did not intend to go beyond the boundaries of the urban rock club6a."
In 1989, the group released its first two magnetic albums “Plows-Woogie” and “Collective Farm Punk” in Voronezh, but it became truly famous only after the release of the albums “Yadrena Vosh” and “Evil Dead” in Moscow in 1990.
Popularity crept up on Yuri unexpectedly; this became possible only thanks to Gorbachev’s dashing perestroika, hungry for taboo topics. The cheerful obscene songs of Yura Klinsky excited the whole of Russia. His albums spread across the country in millions of copies. Demand gave birth to supply. The youth went crazy over the obscene pearls of Jura. There was no censorship for him; he sang what he wanted. And the “scandalous collective” thundered “from the taiga to the British seas.”
Unlike modern pop singers, Yura did not write empty songs, but first found a theme for a future composition. Some songs are autobiographical, these are “Yadrena Vlosh”, “Yava”, the song “Ment”, which was written after Yuri was released from the sober prison, and Yuri dedicated “Took the Blame” to his brother, but not all of them.
“For some reason, many people perceive my songs as something autobiographical: they imagine me as a kind of monster in smelly socks, who suffered from all known sexually transmitted diseases and became impotent.”
As for the pseudonym “Khoy,” it came from Yura’s signature cry: “Khoy” is just an exclamation, I often say it during songs. The fact that it reminds someone of Tsoi is an accident." By the way, few people know that the leader of the SG was familiar with Viktor Tsoi.
Yuri Klinskikh did not consider himself a punk: “I never considered myself a punk. Well, maybe at the beginning of my work, pure “punk” was visible somewhere. I do what I personally like. Each album is musically diverse. The style of Sector Gaza" I define as "fusion".
About his songs: “If you sing about human vices, this does not mean that you yourself approve of them. Perhaps, this is even a peculiar kind of fight against all dirt.”
Yuri Klinskikh avoided television broadcasts: “I was recently invited to “Sharks of the Pen.” I immediately refused. I don’t want to sit like a wise woman when such a mass of hostile faces are staring at you. By the way, I’m not the only one who does this, many don’t go there - those who smarter. Only idiots who dream of “getting around” for free, but in the end they are “getting screwed.” Why should I expose myself once again?”
Yuri Klinskikh about his parents: “They are proud that their son has become a popular person. And as for songs, they generally consider songs like “Fog” and “It’s Time to Go Home” to be classics of Russian song. “The parents have an old one - the mother loves “Oh, frost, frost,” the father loves Zykina.”
Yuri Klinskikh about Moscow: “Moscow is the center where all the smart people who want to earn money gather. But it is a depraved city. It is very dangerous for young people. Very arrogant young people live there.”
Yuri Klinskikh about F. Kirkorov: “It’s better to be an honest hooligan than to do something false, like Kirkorov. He didn’t write a single song himself. I write songs myself. And I speak honestly about what worries me and what I think.”
Yuri Klinskikh is outwardly apolitical: “Fuck this politics...! With a gimlet!”
The popularity of the group is limitless, Sektor Gaza is listened to not only by ordinary people, but also by professors and politicians - Vladimir Zhirinovsky also likes Sektor Gaza. The group received an award from the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party "For their invaluable contribution to the development of the Russian language." SG is especially popular in provincial cities, villages and in the army.
Yuri Klinskikh was never a member of the party, although he had a certificate as an assistant to a deputy. Despite this, the Gaza Strip group performed at LDPR propaganda concerts. Klinskikh commented on this as follows:
“It makes no difference to us who we play for; we are far from politics. If Zhirinovsky pays, we play for Zhirinovsky; if another faction pays, we’ll play for it. Everything else is not our problem.”
He was recorded in the book of records as the only person who managed to rhyme the expression " Secretary General Central Committee of the CPSU Gorbachev".
Even Yuri Nikulin liked the group’s creativity. After Klinskikh played a concert at the Nikulin Circus, the famous artist invited the young man to his dressing room. Amid words of admiration and gratitude, Nikulin took out a bottle of cognac and invited Khoy to talk. The artist himself was so flattered by these compliments that he often told his friends and relatives about this incident.
Yuri Klinskikh about the modern Russian scene: “Rock and roll is dead,” said Grebenshchikov. I would clarify: he is dying. Sukachev, Kinchev no longer have that energy, they don’t have that passion characteristic of the 80s... And the young ones... I don’t want to offend anyone, and therefore I will remain silent... "
Yuri Klinskikh about the group “Red Mold”: “Some people mow down... “Red Mold”, for example... Let them find something of their own... We rarely swear, but accurately, that is, absolutely everything is in place. In contrast , say, from “Red Mold”, where they simply swear to the music..."
Yuri Klinskikh about modern Russia: "...It all depends on the social class to which you belong. I am from the workers, but I managed to earn decent money due to my talent. The modern Russian system helped me with this. If I had continued to work as a loader, receiving pennies, then , naturally, would be dissatisfied with the government."
It is this group that can rightfully be called a phenomenon of the Soviet and post- Soviet show business. Having been formed at the dawn of perestroika, it has proven over time that it is not afraid of prohibitions, censorship, or complete isolation from television, radio and newspapers. The group, which existed most of its life on pirated audio cassettes, won true love among ordinary people and became truly popular.
Personal life
Before the army, he met his future wife Galina, and later got married. The marriage produced two daughters: Irina and Lilia.
Without divorcing his wife, he had a long-term relationship with the girl Olga Samarina, which he himself told his wife about. I met her in 1991 at my concert in Moscow, the relationship lasted until last days musician. According to close people, it was Olga who got Yuri addicted to drug use.
For some, this girl is the last drug addict and trash who hooked Yuri on the needle; for others, she is him last love. Olga recalls that she never felt an age difference with him, but felt that he was spoiled by women. According to Olga, she knew that he was married, that his wife had left for Voronezh, since she was not satisfied with such a touring life, that they were all on the verge of divorce. Olga says that everyone liked Yura for his simple, sociable nature, kindness and responsiveness. What with these spiritual qualities he was very different from Muscovites. Olga notes that Yuri did not suffer from “star fever”, he was ordinary. Living in Moscow, he saw how everyone was deceiving each other, he knew that Savin was deceiving him. Olga says that Yuri did not like showdowns, he was creative person, and he had no time to study financial affairs. Then, as Olga recalls, Yuri made peace with his wife, their daughter Lilya was born, and for Olga he disappeared. She made herself a new friend and they were already living together. Olga says that she knew that he would never leave his family, that he was drawn to both her and his family. He often told her that they were suitable for each other, since they were both goofballs, that he loved her as a woman, and treated his wife as the mother of his children, as a sister.
Olga, in her memoirs, complains that because of her, Yura had many quarrels and family problems, and because of these troubles, he did not produce an album. Remembering how they spent their free time, Olga says that Yura read a lot of thrillers and mysteries, and they also went to bars, and there they became addicted to heroin. Well, then through the vein. Olga believes that if Yura had not gotten sick, he would have definitely jumped, he was treated and tried to treat her. Remembering the morning of the 4th, Olga says that when she woke up, Yura was already running around the apartment, not understanding what was happening to him, and it was as if blood was running like boiling water through his veins. She tried to call him an ambulance, but he refused, saying that he would take an aspirin and everything would pass. He took an aspirin and they went to the shoot. But on the way he got worse and they stopped at a friend of Yuri’s. Olga recalls that he immediately lay down on the bed, curled up and kept complaining that he was in pain and everything was burning. Then he fell out of bed and lost consciousness.
Death
Khoy dies on the morning of Tuesday, July 4, 2000 in one of the houses on Barnaulskaya Street, on the left bank (the address is known throughout the district as a “cooking house”, or according to the protocol “drug den”). Eyewitnesses say that Yura was getting ready to meet with television crews - he was filming a new video clip - when he complained of pain in his stomach and left side. The pain intensified, but Hoy decided not to cancel the meeting, saying that the pain would go away. And a few seconds later the heart stopped. Friends rushed to call an ambulance, but the doctors who arrived were powerless.
Yuri Nikolaevich Klinskikh was buried on July 6 in Voronezh, at the Left Bank cemetery (another name for the cemetery “On Bakakh”).
