He then traveled during three years through the Soviet Union as a member of pop music band Anons ("Announcement") under pen name of Boris Berg.
The band was directed by Aleksander Kasimov and reached its peak of popularity in the late 1980s - early 1990s by performing songs like "Olya and AIDS", which were seen as challenge to official Soviet stage.
In 1992, he returned to medicine, but continued writing poetry, music and songs, and released new album, "Topol", in 2007.
[9] He is also active as internet blogger and conduct regular discussions on Russian politics, history and culture on a video blog, "Arbat Sitters", together with journalists Andrei Barkhatov and Alexander Orlov.
[10] He appears with his songs at Echo of Moscow in a program created by Natella Boltyanskaya.