After the adoption of the law, thematic clubs in Moscow began to be cautious, tightened control, afraid to let strangers in.
– The guard asks: “Do you know what this club is?” I answer: “Gay club”. The guard says: “We don’t have this, we have the usual one.” Not recommended for single beginners! — complains one of those who did not pass the face control.
— And then we decided to make a gay club. In 1995 they opened “Three Monkeys”, and a couple of years later – “Central Station,” Abaturov was proud. gay-operated – and gays go there. We must remember our “patriotism.” With us, a gay will always be right in an argument with a straight man, because our club is the only place where gays can be right.
moskvichmag.ru, 06/14/2019, “Today the legendary gay club “Three Monkeys” reopens in Moscow: It was the first gay club in Moscow. It existed from 1995 to 2002. First on Trubnaya Square, later on Paveletskaya and at the Kursk railway station. The three monkeys on the logo stand for “see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing to anyone.” Nevertheless, everyone knew about him. Even Jean-Paul Gaultier, Marc Almond, Boy George and many representatives of international show business came here. In the early years, in addition to several dance floors, bars, stages, a restaurant, a cinema hall and even a library, there were also dark rooms, but in recent incarnations they have already been abandoned (to the dismay of all metropolitan dermatologists and urologists, as journalist Eduard Dorozhkin wrote). […]
“The main nightly platform of the capital, which connected so many hearts and destroyed so many strong alliances,” Dorozhkin briefly described the “Three Monkeys” and what happened there. As Abaturov told Moskvich Mag, the new Three Monkeys can be described as a dance bar: “The music will be good dance house techno, we will try to maintain the musical style, but we are flexible, we will look and change. There are several zones here – a chill-out, a dance hall for about 500 people, a lot of screens and LEDs, the sound is good, ordered in England. — Inset K.ru
Initially, the “Central Station” was located in an annex to the recreation center on Dubrovka, where the infamous musical “Nord-Ost”. When the terrorists took the hostages, the club did not work, but it was not empty either. In his basement, a film crew of 15 people was making a certain low-budget film. The press then wondered why there was no information about the fate of these people. Abaturov himself told in interviewthat the special forces stormed the hall with the hostages from the side of his club and blew up the common wall for this. And he refuted the rumors that the terrorists allegedly stored ammunition in the “Central Station”.
“Friends are getting younger,” his followers on social networks joke about Abaturov’s entourage.
If Ilya Abaturov is not at work and not in the Zelenograd estate, he travels. By registration, in a panel house on the outskirts of Moscow, he hardly lives.
