Mikhail “Mike” Naumenko (1955–1991) is a poet, translator, musician and one of the most undisputed icons of “Russian rock”. Either a man or an epic hero. That is why his literary biography is forced to combine the features of a historical novel and the Odyssey. This is the book by Alexander Kushnir “Mike Naumenko. Escape from the Zoo,” in which the memories of eyewitnesses of the events are intertwined with indisputable documents, and personal impressions are side by side with analytical calculations. The publication completes a triptych of books by the author dedicated to the “life of forbidden people”, the heroes of the previous two volumes of which were Sergei “Captain” Kuryokhin and Ilya Kormiltsev.