Most radio stations chase variety. This one does the opposite. Сектор Газовой Атаки is a discography channel built around a single act, streaming nothing but the catalog of the Russian rock band of the same name, a project born directly out of grief for one of Russia's most beloved and chaotic punk frontmen.
A Factory District Gave Punk Rock Its Name
To understand the station, you have to go back to Sektor Gaza, the band that started it all. Formed in Voronezh in December 1987, Sektor Gaza took its name from a smoke-choked industrial district on the city's left bank, a place locals half-jokingly compared to the Gaza Strip because of its perpetually smoking factory chimneys. Fronted by Yuri Klinskikh, known to fans as Yuri Khoy, the group mixed punk, hard rock, folk and rap into songs that were crude, funny and strangely tender all at once, and became one of the defining acts of Russian rock in the 1990s.
Klinskikh died suddenly at his home in Voronezh on July 4, 2000, and with him, officially, went Sektor Gaza. The band never reformed. What emerged instead, a year later, was something more personal than a reunion.
Built From Loss, Not Nostalgia
According to the band's history documented on Russrock.ru and the group's Russian Wikipedia entry, Сектор Газовой Атаки formed in March 2001 in Moscow when Sergey Kimtsov, known as Kim, the founder of Sektor Gaza's very first official fan club, left an earlier tribute project alongside vocalist Tatiana Fateeva. Kim's first composition for the new band was a song called "Bolshaya Grud," written that same month, and it anchored the debut album released in 2002 under a title that leaves no ambiguity about the project's purpose: "Pamyati Yuriya Khoya," meaning "In Memory of Yuri Khoy."
That framing matters. Сектор Газовой Атаки was never pitched as a cover band cashing in on a famous name. It was formed by someone who had spent years running the fan club, someone whose relationship to the material was closer to stewardship than imitation. Early audiences were skeptical anyway, and reviewers noted the band leaned heavily on Sektor Gaza's sound in its first years. Over two decades and more than twenty studio albums, though, Kim's songwriting gradually pushed the project into its own identity while still returning, again and again, to the punk, horror-punk and hard rock textures that defined the original band.
Two Decades and Counting
The band has stayed active well into the 2020s, with releases including "V Strane Durakov" in 2021 and "Rozhdyonny na Zemle" in 2024, and it remains a fixture at festivals organized in Klinskikh's memory. The current lineup, built around Kim on vocals alongside guitarists Kirill Kattranov and Dmitry Lavrukhin, bassist Evgeny Belyaev and drummer Anatoly Stukachyov, has even staged a punk opera based on the Slavic folk tale of Koschei the Deathless, a sign of how far the project has grown beyond its origins as a memorial act.
What the Station Actually Sounds Like
Streaming through the pcradio.ru platform under its "discography" tag, the Сектор Газовой Атаки channel plays exactly what its name promises: two decades of the band's studio output, wall to wall, with no filler from other artists. For longtime fans of Sektor Gaza who never got a chance to say goodbye properly, it functions less like background music and more like an ongoing conversation with a scene that refused to end when its central figure did. For newer listeners curious about the rougher, funnier, more unpolished side of Russian rock, it is a direct route into one of the country's strangest and most enduring musical lineages.