Few of the Soviet pop singers in the 30s and 40s were as popular as Vadim Kozin. The singer was an idol of the public, he was literally carried in their arms, huge queues lined up for concerts, and the records were marked “not subject to melting down.” However, the applause gave way to interrogations, concert halls to camps, fame to silence. After his imprisonment, decades of voluntary exile in Magadan followed. When, during the years of “perestroika,” the wall of silence around the singer’s name was broken, publications began to appear dedicated to the missing, but not forgotten, idol. Many of them were of a speculative and frankly scandalous nature, aggravated by the fact that Vadim Kozin himself often created and disseminated legends about his biography. DECOM Publishing tried to create an objective and reliable book about the life of the famous singer, free from speculation. It includes the memoirs of the Magadan journalist A. Mazurenko, who knew Kozin for many years, the founder of the V. Kozin Memory Foundation - A. Kostyrin, the author of books about Russian pop figures A. Gimmerwert, as well as other people who knew the “disgraced Orpheus”. The CD is included with the printed edition only.