Elvis music was under the complete ban in the USSR, his records were not published, songs didn't sound, even Elvis photograph couldn't be found anywhere. To listen Elvis songs was nevertheless, that to commit crime. Elvis was underground and his records were sold from the hands between the collectors, under the fear to fall into the prison. These were special "records", such wasn't nowhere more in the world - records "on the edges" (songs were recorded underground in the X-ray photographs). And people listened it at home, under the ban, but they felt happy, because this was the only way to listen Elvis music. Russian people knows the Elvis music very badly, Elvis couldn't be opened into Russia because of the long existed "Iron Curtain" and the totalitarian regime.
But nevertheless, there are now in Russia many young people, which greatly loves Elvis, his music, his style, his movies, the 50's. The club now has members that range from students to retirees.
The over! all goal of the Russian Elvis Presley fan club is to keep Elvis' memory alive and to propagandized Elvis music in Russia, defending him as the musical genius and great human being that he was, help anyone who wants to expand our Elvis collection or even just hear some Elvis songs or watch an Elvis movie.

By Elena Shuvalova. Vice-president of the official Russian Elvis Presley fan club.