In 1972 Aleksandr Bashirov came to Leningrad, filed his papers with the first Vocational School No. 57 and began to master the specialty of the tiling-mosaic, then worked at a cement plant in Vyborg. In the army he served in the tank division. In the army club Bashirov was an artist, he painted a portrait of Leonid Brezhnev in a tank helmet. After...