The first festival "Rock and Roll Tauride," held in August 1986 at the Novokakhovsky Summer Theater, became an event so unusual even for the perestroika time of the Soviet Union that it immediately hit the pages of the then most circulation newspaper - Komsomolskaya Pravda. A heated discussion broke out on the pages of the newspaper about whether Komsomol functionaries - namely, they were the organizers and ideological inspirers of the Novokakhov festival - have the right to lead the youth festival with the prefix "rock." The overwhelming majority of readers reacted positively to the initiative of the Novokakhov Komsomol leaders, and the festival gradually began to acquire connections and become more and more popular.