chinari
A discovery, courtesy of jubilat volume nine:
“The philosopher Yakov Semenovich Druskin (1902-1980) belonged to an underground philosophical and literary circle that was active in Leningrad in the 1920s and ’30s. Its members, who called themselves chinari, included the philosopher Leonid Lipavsky and the poets Nikolai Oleinikov, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. (The latter two were also the founds of the short-lived literary association OBERIU.) It is only somewhat inaccurate to describe the thought of these five people as Russian absurdism.”
p 88, translator’s notes Eugene Ostashevsky