''A-YA'' (''A-JA''),

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: a-Я — журнал неофициального русского искусства (English: Magazine of Unofficial Russian Art), was an

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Russian art revue. ''A-YA'' was illegally prepared in the Soviet Union and then published in Paris from 1979 to 1986. The editors were Alexander Sidorov (under the pseudonym "Alexej Alexejev") in Moscow and Igor Shelkovsky in Paris. ''A-YA'' was distributed in the U.S. by

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in New York. It consisted of 60 pages in A4 format. There were 3000 copies per edition (the first edition numbered 7000). ''A-YA'' was printed in both color and black and white. An informal magazine, ''A-YA'' opened to the world the virtually unknown-to-the-public contemporary Soviet art and current Russian art, which for many years was to dominate the world's leading exhibition venues and auctions. It was from ''A-YA'' that people first heard the names

Eric Bulatov Erik Bulatov (russian: Эрик Владимирович Булатов; born September 5, 1933 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian artist, who was raised in Moscow. His father was a communist party official who died in World War II at Pskov, and his mo ...

, Ilya Kabakov,

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'' with a new forward by Shelkovsky as ''A-YA - Unofficial Russian Art Review: 1979-1986'' ().

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