Yegor Letov dies

On February 19, 2008, Yegor Letov died of heart disease, aged 43. Born in 1964, Yegor Letov was a punk musician, the founder of Гражданская Оборона (Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Civil Defense) in 1984, and one of the three founders of the National Bolshevik Party in 1992, along with Alexander Dugin and Eduard Limonov.