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A contribution from the conference 'The Second Avant-garde' (part of the grant-funded project 'The Myths, Language, and Taboos of the Czech Post-Avant-garde from the Forties to the Sixties'), which was held on 23 October 2007. The article considers the Avant-garde in Russia in the second half of the twentieth century. It discusses relations between members of the Avant-garde in Russia and in Czechoslovakia, and their mutual impact, and uses many examples in an attempt to explain the special features of the Russian Avant-garde.