SMOG () was one of the earliest informal literary groups independent of the Soviet state in the post-Stalin

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. Among several interpretations of the acronym are ''Smelost', Mysl', Obraz i Glubina'' (Courage, Thought, Image and Depth), and, humorously, ''Samoe Molodoe Obshchestvo Geniev'' (Society of Youngest Geniuses).An interview with Kublanovsky
/ref> It is also a pun: the Russian word "смог" means " was able (to do something)". It was organized in January/February 1965 by a group of young poets and writers: Poet Leonid Gubanov (initiator, membership card #1); writer and editor (membership card #2); poet and publicist Yuri Kublanovsky; , a poet who received the Andrei Bely Prize; and poets Nikolai Bokov and , later joined by several dozens of others. The group held public poetry readings and issued several '' samizdat'' collections and a magazine, ''Sfinksy'' ("Sphynxes"). In 1965, they revived their literary meetings at Mayakovsky Square ( Mayakovsky Square poetry readings). Some members also helped organize the unsanctioned 1965 glasnost rally calling for a legal trial of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. The group was under pressure from the state. Its last poetry reading took place on April 14, 1966.

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