Sea of people: how Vysotsky's funeral

28 Jul 1980 Moscow buried Vladimir Vysotsky. According to eyewitnesses, the crowd wanted to say goodbye to the idol of filling the whole of Taganskaya square and the surrounding streets, and the tail of the queue began at the Kremlin. Vysotsky died at the cemetery Vagankovsky. The foreign press gave the tragedy a lot more attention than the Soviet Union. Only two Newspapers of the USSR gave a short message about the death of poet, singer and actor.