Russian philology
written in Ukraine, especially in Kharkiv, home to H. L. Oldie, Alexander Zorich, Yuri Nikitin
and Andrey Valentinov. Many others hail from Kiev, including Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
and Vladimir Arenev. Significant contribution to Russian horror literature has been done by
Ukrainians Andrey Dashkov and Alexander Vargo.
Russian poetry of that period produced a number of avant-garde greats. The members of the
Lianosovo group of poets, notably Genrikh Sapgir, Igor Kholin and Vsevolod Nekrasov, who
previously chose to refrain from publication in Soviet periodicals, became very influential,
especially in Moscow, and the same goes for another masterful experimental poet, Gennady
Aigi. Also popular were poets following some other poetic trends, e.g. Vladimir Aristov and
Ivan Zhdanov from Poetry Club and Konstantin Kedrov and Elena Katsuba from DOOS, who
all used complex metaphors which they called meta-metaphors. In St. Petersburg, members of
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