[2] The laboratory's headquarters were in the Unified Scientific and Methodological Center of the Main Department of Culture of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council (Russian: Единый научно-методический центр Главного управления культуры исполкома Моссовета).
[3] The club was founded by order of Viktor Grishin, then the First Secretary of the Moscow party committee of the CPSU.
[5] The artistic council, which was responsible for accepting new groups into the laboratory, also included Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Lipnitsky, and Vasily Shumov.
The services the rock laboratory provided to musicians had become less essential and more difficult to maintain due to the political and economic changes of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
[3] The laboratory provided sound and light equipment and amplifiers, organized shows, and handled publicity for its members.
Since Moscow Rock Laboratory bands were officially considered "amateurs", they were not paid for their concerts.