Pack of Cigarettes

It was originally planned that the new album would be called "Pachka Sigaret" because of this song, but the renaming happened after Tsoi decided to introduce "Zvezda po imeni Solntse" on the last day of recording.

Since shops with a round-the-clock work schedule did not exist in the USSR, several people, including Tsoi, went out into the street to "beg passers-by for cigarettes" in a conditional competition — "who gets the most" — the leader of the Kino group won.

As Yuri Kasparyan, who arranged the song, said, his melody "was built purely mathematically" and therefore he selected the notes, guided by his own idea of their appropriateness: "I just like harmony, algebra - it's all very interesting.

"[3] The fact that the theme laid down in the song was close to Tsoi and his friends was also recalled by the first director of Kino Yuri Belishkin - according to the producer he first came to meet the musicians (who in the late 1980s worked, as a rule in the Leningrad apartment of the band's drummer Georgy Guryanov on Budapeshtskaya Street) he drew attention to the unpretentiousness of the situation: “A table, cigarettes and tea.

The renaming took place at the end of 1988 at the initiative of Tsoi, who announced that he had decided to add the song "Zvezda po imeni Solntse" already recorded for the film Needle and it would give the name to the album.