Yanka Dyagileva

She was born on September 4, 1966, in Novosibirsk into a family of engineers. Her father was Stanislav Ivanovich Dyagilev (who died on December 30, 2021[3]). Her mother was Galina Dementyevna Dyagileva (who died of cancer in October 1986). She graduated from Secondary School No. 42 (now Grammar School No. 1) in Novosibirsk, and also studied piano for one year at a music school, but abandoned her studies. Afterwards, she developed a desire to learn to play the guitar; she mastered the guitar in a club at the Fat Plant. She did not like the exact sciences, but showed an inclination towards the humanities, in particular literature; she wrote essays well. She read a lot; among her favorite authors were Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilyov, and Andrei Platonov. Already in her school years, she wrote poetry (several poems presumably by her have survived, copied by a school friend; however, they are quite different from her later work and it is possible that Yanka herself copied them from somewhere), sang and played the guitar, and participated in the school sam