TIMELINE _{translated and adapted from russian from this click here. all credits to @vivalavaginas on twitter. I don't know too much russian so might be things lost in the translation. also omited some things.}

• 1987:
- Balu, Gorshok and Poruchik meet at school


• 1988:
- Started learning to play guitar at the Beryozka club, 40 minutes from home
- Gorshok, Balu and Poruchik form the group 'Kontora' (which means office in russian)
- March 2nd: recording of the first song: 'Я иду к тебе домой'_{(ya idu k tebye domoy/ I'm going to your house)}
- In september: Gorshok and Knyaz met at the restoration school (Ryabchik too)

somewhere around here (1988-1992) first concert in the Petrogradetz club


• 1989:
- In the summer: Gorshok and Balu go to the seventh rock festival in the Leningrad rock club and Misha is harshly scolded by his father
- September 23: Gorshok goes to Akvarium's performance at the Aurora magazine festival
- In winter: Gorshok and Balu go to a Black Sabbath's concert


• 1990:
- I the summer: They record the album 'Yeres''. "In the summer of 1990, Gorshok's parents went to the country. For a while, it was quite possible to move to Misha's (Gorshok) house. There, eating only pasta, the guys wrote their debut album. And at night they played a game they made up, "Enchanted Country." The future rock icons had just turned seventeen".
- Gorshok's grandma gave him his first electric guitar.

Somewhere around this time 'Король шутов'_{korol' shutov'/king of the jesters} appears and is replaced by Король и Шут_{korol' i shut/king and jester}, and the first recording at the studio takes place. Also somewhere around here Gorshok leaves his house (at first there and back and forth)


• 1991:
- 'TamTam' opens in summer. _{(TamTam was a club in Saint Petersburg that was very important in their beginnings)}
- Gorshok and Knyaz completed the restoration school.
- Balu is going to the army (wrote a letter of resignation due to the change of state happening at that time, because he took an oath to the USSR. Beated someone with a stool, cut his veins (?), was in a mental hospital for 70 days)


• 1992:
- The first song on the radio (organized by Poruchik). Knyaz heard it in the hospital, Balu in the army
- Balu returned from the army
- First official performance at the Golubev Rhythm School on Rubinstein.
- Poruchik is taken into the army (most likely in the summer)

Somewhere here Balu took Gorshok to the dentist, and somewhere here Knyaz and Gorshok try heroin, but probably earlier, somewhere in '91


• 1993:
- Recorded their first electric album, 'Истинный убийца'_{Istinnyy ubiytsa/the true killer}, in Mikhail Kolchugin's studio (with Knyaz, Gorshok, Balu, Ryabchik and Lyosha)
- Trip to Moscow to Secston (Knyaz, Gorshok, Lyosha, Balu, Lysyy like the group's director)
- Gorshok gets his first tattoo (The joker)
- (in spring? or summer?) first performance in TamTam (Lyosha was on drums, Gorshok got drunk and didn't play)
- 4 days before 1994 Knyaz is taken into the army


• 1994:
- Poruchik returns from the army
- Knyaz is in the army, they play without him
- Ryabchik leaves the group
- Recorded 'Будь как дома, путник'_{Bud' kak doma, putnik/make yourself at home, traveler} without a Knyaz
- Probably, somewhere around this time, Lyosha Gorshenev (Gorshok's brother) went into the army


• 1995:
- in June, the first performance at Fuzzfest (Petya Vasiliev on the second guitar)
- Knyaz returns from the army
- At the end of the year they meet Yasha in TamTam
- Balu had his first son, Kirill, with Inna Demidova


• 1996:
- February: Yasha's first concert as part of the group
- April 12th: Bike Fest Green Airship, a sad Gorshok with a broken nose says that his friend recently died (in a fight the day before)
- June 23: Participation in the DDT (Shevchuk) festival, there they were heard by Natalia Krusanova, and after that they "kicked out" bass player Grisha (they decided to kick him out, but he himself never came again). Balu becomes a bass player
- In the summer, Renegat met them in person at a festival on Pushkinskaya 10
- Recorded (August-September) and released (October 3) the first official album 'Камнем по голове'_{kamnem po golove/stone on the head}, label Kurizza at the Melodiya studio
- October 9: Anfisa (Gorshok's first wife) and Gorshok met at the Poligon club (Yasha led Anfisa and her friend to the dressing room)
- First appearance at an off-club solo concert - at the Pishchevikov Cultural Center (Vatrushka) with an album presentation.

WIP.....