The title of the scientific almanac contains the names of three outstanding representatives of the art song - B. Sh. Okudzhava (1924–1997), V. S. Vysotsky (1938–1980) and A. A. Galich (1919–1977), but the problems The texts collected in the book are broader - this is the very phenomenon of Russian classical art songs of the 1960-1980s. The publication includes new philological and biographical research on the topic, archival articles and interviews not previously published in Russia, as well as a reference and bibliographic review of publications about the author’s song published in 2018–2019. The collection is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding philologist N. A. Bogomolov and is addressed to scientists - researchers of sung poetry, teachers, and all lovers of bard creativity.