The death of Vladimir Visotsky, in July 1980, saw mourners pour out onto the streets of Moscow, despite the singer-songwriter being overlooked by the Soviet establishment
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Singer and guitarist Vladimir Visotsky, who died in July 1980, is noted in the Guinness Book of Records for the six-mile queue of people who waited to visit his grave on the day of his impromptu memorial. Vladimir Vysotsky, a Russian anti-establishment actor, poet, songwriter and singer, rehearses Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Russian stage director Yuri Lyubimov, at the Palais de Chaillot Theatre in Paris
Despite the low-key announcement mourners attended an unofficial ceremony for the poet en masse, with the queue to visit his grave starting at 4am.
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