Kirill Razumov has posted two videos on YouTube that describe his work on Bob Dylan and Russia (he also presented his work at the 2025 World of Bob Dylan Conference in Tulsa):
Part 1 https://youtu.be/NlAFS9PHhQE
Part 2 https://youtu.be/5DxF47RmDsE
Razumov also noted in his email to the Bob Dylan Book Club: “There are 2 persons who are called "Russian Dylan”, they represent 2 generations of Russians —-Vladimir Vysotsky and Boris Grebenshikov. There was an annual seminar on Vysotsky and Dylan held some years ago in USA, check this https://themacweekly.com/2023/03/macalester-hosts-summit-on-bob-dylan-and-vladimir-vysotsky/
Here are two concert videos that were part of the celebration of Vysotsk and Dylan: Concert 1 and Concert 2.
Razumov writes: “Boris Grebenshikov (BG) was and still is a superstar for my generation. I have wrote a separate chapter in my book explaining that through BG Dylan strongly influenced the Russian youth of 1970-80s. But you can read about it also here, I have cited this work a lot - https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/978a1091-3afd-4633-946a-9daf5f742895/content”
Razumov continues: “Vysotsky was never compared to Dylan at his time ( 1970s). Here were are speaking not about Dylan’s influence on him but about the same role in the society. He was the singer songwriter, writing very serious and important texts, and was incredibly popular in the country. He was in contradiction with authorities, that’s why had few recordings on official TV and just one or two LP . Most of his songs were distributed on tapes, which people were coping from each other. Almost every Soviet family, which had reel or cassette tape recorder, had few tapes of Vysotsky. Here is the example of his singing https://youtu.be/fA_ijj1JfYU?is=ZfpnOg1LgpyHZOhK
Vysotsky died in 1980. 
As for BG, who is still very active, touring the world and living in the UK after 2022, he was under big influence of Bob Dylan songs. His style and his poetry can be compared to Dylan. You can find a lot of his music in YouTube by searching for Boris Grebenshikov or for BG or for Aquarium band, that his group. He had an English language LP Radio Silence, which was not so successful, as his Russian language songs.”

—Peter White, April 2026

Kirill Razumov writes: “I am the author & world’s rock music historian. For over 4 years I am doing a research, devoted to the Bob Dylan's visit to USSR in mid -1980s and his later connections with Russia.
I do think I am the first researcher in the world who has studied this issue in details (tens of interviews in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Russia), Tbilisi (Georgia), USA, studies in Moscow and St. Petersburg archives)), and now I have wrote a book, bringing to the audience many previously unknown, really interesting and sometimes sensational facts of Bob Dylan's biography.
The book’s name is “Bob Dylan in the USSR: People, Places, Events” / Боб Дилан в СССР: Люди, Места, События” and it was published in the May 2025 by the AST Publishing House.
My study & the book covers not only previously unknown facts, but also presents the broad picture of the late-USSR realities and describes the political and cultural characters, who were next to Bob Dylan in Moscow in Tbilisi in 1985. The description of the USSR life includes my own memories too; in 1985 I was 21 years old.
Apart of the Dylan’s project I am running my "THE SEA OF MUSIC" blog, which is the series of interviews with prominent yachtsmen and musicians about Music and the Sea in their lives and their influence on each other.
For this project in 2019-2023 I have done interviews with Carl Magnus Palm, official ABBA's biographer & writer; Peter Hince, QUEEN's band head of roadie team for 12 years, assistant of Freddie Mercury and author of "Queen Unseen" book; Ken Hensley, founder of the legendary URIAH HEEP rock band; Laura Dekker, world's most famous female sailor, Merrell Fanckhauser, legend of American surf rock music and others, the last interview was done on March 2023 with world famous rock singer and guitar player Suzi Quatro. Most of those interviews were put together in a book, which was published in 2024 by the Planeta Musiki (Planet of Music) publishing house under the name of “Sea, Yeacts, Rock’n’Roll: Interviews with Stars” / Море, Яхты, Рок’н’ролл: Интервью со звездами”.
Currently I am writing a new book about Western rock and pop music stars touring the USSR before Perestroika, in 1970-1980s.
The book will consist of a series of chapters, each dedicated to the Soviet tours of a particular artist—Cliff Richard, Roy Clark, Living Sound, Elton John, Billy Joel, Suzi Quatro, Bob Dylan, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Space—as well as visits to the country as tourists by Joan Baez, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop. It will also cover the first rock festivals of the late‑1980s era of change, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Carlos Santana, Cinderella, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, the Doobie Brothers, AC/DC, Pantera, and others.”