In 1964 composer Tamara Markova (having heard 'Babje Leto' in a suburban train, sung by a group of young people) approached Kokhanovsky and asked for the permission to write her own music for the piece.

[8] In 1976 Kokhanovsky recorded his debut album Indian Summer featuring the song "The Face in the Palms" put to music by Anatoly Dneprov, who's just left for the United States.

His second one, The Discs Are Spinning, recorded in 1979 with Yuri Chernavsky and his Krasnye Maki (The Red Poppies) pop band, became a massive Soviet disco hit and by 1983 has sold 15 million copies.

[8] Throughout his career he also worked together on songs with a wide number of other singers and composers like Sergey Minaev, Vadim Baikov, Yuri Antonov, Valery Obodzinsky and Eson Kandov.

[8] As of late 2014 he was working upon another book, Vysotsky Remembered featuring interviews with Alla Demidova, Yuri Lyubimov, Veniamin Smekhov and Eldar Ryazanov, among others.