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44100Hz Person – May 2007
Персоны месяца · 28.08.2007
By Анна Лекс
May's person of the month was the charming girl Polina. We were only able to meet the winner after the summer. And that gave us a reason to talk about holidays, clubs, nightlife and Kazantip, from which Polina had returned a few days before our conversation.
Hi, Polina! Tell us, what do you do?
I'm a full-time student at RGGU. And I combine that with work.
Do you have energy left for partying?
I used to go clubbing more. Now I only pick the biggest and most interesting events, there's no time for the rest.
And which place is a priority for you?
There used to be the club Mix. Now I find it hard to say.
Yes, Mix was the most popular after-party club. So what do people do now at five in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays?
They visit friends, probably. I used to do it completely differently — I'd go to sleep in the evening, and in the morning I'd wake up and head to Mix. That was cool.
Yeah, cool. You've just come back from Kazantip — was it your first time?
No. My tenth.
Wow! You're a real Kazantip regular. This year they celebrated the fifteenth anniversary there, so it turns out you've missed only 5 festivals.
Yes. Back then I was too little. Now I realize that I'll definitely go there next year. Because my anniversary tenth time turned out to be the happiest.
Why?
I was in love with the sea, the sun, the sunset, the people and the smiles. I had a really good rest, rethought a lot of things and drew illustrations for a children's fairy tale.
And how much money did you spend at Kazantip?
Over the month it came to $3,000 for me.
In which direction do you feel Kazantip is changing?
I've started to notice that a lot of people come there who don't understand why they're going or where. Too many superfluous people. It upsets me.
Did you go alone?
I usually go alone, but this time a girl named Ira joined me — she, by the way, became person of August on your site.
Where did you stay?
At first we tried to stay on Morskaya Street. But we were offered not a house but 10 tents in the backyard. That happens often at Kazantip. When we did finally find decent lodging, we ran into the problem of food. Because the food there is, to put it mildly, not very good. I got food poisoning twice, and the only place where you could eat tolerably was the Shanti area.
And what stood out musically?
Spider played really cool. This time a new trance dancefloor, "Mars", was built at Kazantip, which was closed to the general public, a kind of VIP zone. But I still really liked the Shanti dancefloor. There was a cool line-up of Germans brought in, they played on the "Euro" dancefloor. But the crazy clubbers spoiled all the feeling of the music with the way they looked.
Was there any kind of medical oversight in case someone felt unwell?
No. I'm not sure. But people fell ill very often; every night you could see people who looked like corpses.
How awful.
Once I was watching the local news, where they were talking about yet another arrest of a group of drug dealers from Moscow and St. Petersburg. The locals get a false impression that guests from the capitals only do that. Although in reality the locals build their businesses mostly illegally.
The other side of the coin... And is there something extremely positive in this whole Kazantip story?
For me there certainly is — it's the sunsets. The sunsets that we greet and see off year after year with applause. I adore the pink sky...
Romantic... Thanks for the chat, Polina.
Thanks to your photographer Korney for this photo, thanks to which I won.
We thank the "Sup" café for providing the venue
and for help in organizing the shoot