Late Soviet Bolderāja (Rīga) fanzine scene and it's (dis)attachment to the places and communities

Regular musical fanzines started to appear in Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) only in late soviet period, in the 1st half of 1980-ies. In this paper I’m focusing on Bolderāja (Rīga) Russian writing fanzine scene (Орган Бэко, От Винта, Малая Земля, Спидъ) covering the last years of soviet rule in Latvia: 1983-1990. Aside from the historical account and archival tasks (history of Latvian fanzines is still unresearched), this paper seeks to explore the (dis)attachment to the places and communities found in writings in aforementioned fanzines. Firstly, this is question about spatial references in the content of fanzines to the place and community of their habitat – Bolderāja, port bound outskirt at the delta of Daugava river in Rīga. Secondly, this is a question about attachment to the different scale and distance musical scenes. If ‘Орган Бэко’ started as a small-scale handwritten fanzine devoted to the new born local scene of distant Rīga’s neighbourhood, then ‘От Винта’ became an unofficial press media of Riga Rocklub, institution founded in 1983 under supervision of the Soviet state organs, specifically – Komsomol (The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) to gather together and control city’s growing underground music scene and groups. ‘От Винта’ and other later zines were participating in broader circles of underground, gaining it’s certain place in All-Union scene.