Due to his numerous concerts throughout Russia, as well as to TV and cinema appearances, Khanon reached the peak of his popularity in 1988–1992, but in 1993, decided to stop performing in public.

[3] In 1988, in spite of an opposition of his old-fashioned professors, Yuri Khanon managed to graduate from the Leningrad Conservatory, specializing in composition.

During this period he composed soundtracks to three films, gave numerous concerts, had several appearances on TV and published a series of articles and interviews.

In 1992 produced CD Olympia (England), symphonic works of Khanon (as a Yuri Khanin): Five smallest orgasms, A Certain Concerto for piano and orchestra and Middle Symphony.

[5]After 1992 Khanon ceased his public and TV appearances, as well as interviews and concerts, and stopped publishing his music works.

[11] As a concert number The Middle Duo is performed around the world by almost all soloists of Russian ballet, though for 10 years Khanon's music has been used without his permission.

Elements of play (both semantic and phonetic), paradox, the absurd and nonsense (word inversion and invention, pseudo-quotation and limerick) all lend Khanon's aesthetic a desire to outrage the listener... – Liudmila Kovnatskaya, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians[3] Since 2006, Khanon switched to a special "reverse method" of creativity, when "one score is written forward, and the other is simultaneously back to its complete destruction".

This is his hermetic answer: "This world is a criminal, it deserves nothing but ash..."[15] Khanon worked for the cinema only for a short period between 1988 and 1991.

...Yuri Khanin, a young composer, this year a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory managed to do everything about the orchestration, arrangement and choice of instruments in a very precise way.

...For the first time in the history of music the narrator is not a biographer or a critic, not even a writer or a philosopher, but Alexander Skriabin’s counterpart and colleague and in a way a person of no less originality and uniqueness.

Even ten years after his death, Skriabin is still a bosom friend of the author, a neighbour, an internal brother-in-arms... – Annotation from the Faces of Russia[21]In the year 2010, Center of Average Music and the publishing house Faces of Russia released another thick work of music history: Erik Satie, Yuri Khanon.

It includes all literary works, critical essays, notes and even notebooks of Erik Satie, as well as almost all the letters, more than sixty drawings and all his entire life, from birth to death.

"[22] In 2013, the Center for Middle Music and the Liki Rossii publishing house released another precedent-setting publication, Yuri Khanon.

[23] After 2009, Yuri Khanon began publishing his essays, stories, articles and research results on his own website ″Khanograf″;[24] their number exceeded two and a half hundred.

In addition to the main author, Boris Yoffe, Viktor Ekimovsky [ru], Vladimir Tikhonov, Psoy Korolenko and other famous people also published on the same resource, often in co-authorship.