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editors (V. Aksenov, A. Bitov, V. Erofeev, F. Iskander, and E. Popov)

poets and writers Andrej Voznesenskij, Bella Axmadulina, Viktor Vysockij, Vasilij Aksenov; the art critic Vasilij Rakitin, the Renaissance scholar Leonid Batkin, the stage director Mark Rozovskij. It also featured less known writers such as Petr Kofovnikov, Fazil' Iskander, Viktor Erofeev, Boris Vaxtin and Inna Lisnjanskaja.

The samizdat anthology was published in the West as Metropol’. Literaturnyi al’manakh, ed. Vasilii Aksenov et al.. (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979). The work later appeared in English as Metropol. Literary almanac (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1982),