Bashlachev was reported to be an intelligent child, able to multiply large numbers by the age of four, took part in literary competitions, and, as a teenager, published a collection of poems by Vladimir Vysotsky and Sergei Yesenin.

After he graduated from Ural State University, Bashlachev left Sverdlovsk and returned to Cherepovets, where he worked for a year with the newspaper "The Communist."

In June 1987, he performed at the Leningrad Rock Festival for the second and final time and was awarded the Nadezhda (Hope) prize.

[5] Shortly before his death, Bashlachev had difficulties with writer's block, rarely writing new songs and tending to avoid performing old ones.

In addition to signs of a deepening depression, he was reported to be troubled by housing and finance concerns, as well as the impending arrival of his son, Yegor, who was born approximately six months after his death.

[8] Anastasia Rakhlina died in June 2018 at the Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.