Sektor Gaza (, Gaza Strip; also sounds like "gas sector" in Russian) was the name of a well-known punk rock band from Voronezh, Russia, founded in 1987. Apart from the band leader, Yuri Nikolaevich Klinskikh (nicknamed Hoy) all other band members were replaced over time. The band's style of music can be described as melodic and experimental; the content varied from political songs to mystical songs about zombies and vampires, as well as interpretation of Russian folk songs and rock ballads. The band's name is apparently an homage to Levoberezhny (Left bank), the ghetto-like district of their home town, Voronezh, which was also ironically referred to as Gaza Strip by its residents. Phrase also means gas sector in Russian, so the name puns on both pollutedness and high level of common crime and domestic violence in the district. In one of their earliest songs, the band claims that the town is so polluted that nobody ever re

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