The encyclopedia, written by the famous rock journalist Andrei Burlaka, presents a full panorama of rock music of the Northern capital from its origins to the present day. “If Burlaka doesn’t know such a group, there is no such group.” It is said that this expression appeared in the 1980s at the Leningrad Philofonist Club. Since then, more than a quarter of a century has passed, an untold number of groups were born, seized their half hour of fame and became the property of history, but Andrei Petrovich Burlaka still remains one of the most informed and authoritative experts in the field of modern music. His pen owns hundreds of articles in periodicals and the world wide web, with his active participation came out almost all encyclopedias devoted to domestic popular music, as well as a number of books about Western music (not to mention translations and editing).