In 2009, the Author’s House public organization established the Brass Screw Award for contributions to the festival rock movement. The award honors rock-festival organizers, producers, musicians, journalists covering festivals, radio stations, music publishers, business representatives, and others who help promising creative projects grow—as well as musicians who have achieved a breakthrough in performance and self-promotion.
Recipients are selected by the collegial council of the Author’s House public organization. The council includes prominent figures in rock music, journalists, producers, and representatives of well-known music labels. The award is presented once a year during the Rock-Line festival and includes a certificate accompanying the statuette.
Concept by Elena Zorina-Novosyolova.
Original sculpture by Aidar Akhatov.
Materials: brass, with a serpentine-stone base.
Statuette weight: 950 grams; height: 25 cm.
A propeller is a vital component that enables an aircraft to take off. Here it rests on a curved element symbolizing a bass clef. The bass clef represents music’s foundation, while a key symbolizes discovery. The base is made of serpentine, a decorative stone from the Urals.
Rock-Line 2009
Vladimir Baturin
Musician and band leader
Empire of Snow — Ulan-Ude
Ekaterina Borisova
Music journalist — Saint Petersburg
Sergey Galanin
Musician and band leader
SerGa — Moscow
Evgeny Segal
Musician and company director
Magic Music Bag — Omsk
Rock-Line 2010
Vladimir Beloborodov
Musician and band leader
Wind Laboratory — Lysva
Igor Gindis
Musician and television host — Perm
Oleg Grabko
Company CEO
Bomba-Piter — Saint Petersburg
Alexander Mezentsev
Festival producer
Belomor-Boogie — Arkhangelsk
Andrey Shmuray
Radio host — Perm
Rock-Line 2011
Sergey Luzin
Chief sound engineer
of the Rock-Line festival — Perm
Alexander Pantykin
Musician,
composer — Yekaterinburg
Alexander Samoylenko
Musician and band leader
Thomas — Chelyabinsk/Moscow
«A-ONE»
Television channel
Nashe Radio-Perm
Radio station
Rock-Line 2012
Peter Bursch
Musician and festival organizer
EuroRock — Duisburg, Germany
Igor Yigitaliev
Company director
Lightmaster-Perm LLC — Perm
Sergey Nichkov
Musician,
Fifth Corps Ensemble — Perm
Alexander F. Sklyar
Musician — Moscow
Alexander Cheparukhin
Festival art director
Creation of the World — Moscow
Rock-Line 2013
Nikolai Meinert
Journalist, critic, and project director
Rock-Cult — Tallinn, Estonia
Andrey Feoktistov
Festival producer
Kaliningrad In Rock — Kaliningrad
Vitaly Purtov
CEO
of Nashe Radio-Perm
Rock-Line 2014
Ilya “Chyort” Knabengof
Musician and band founder
Pilot — Saint Petersburg
Evgeny Kolbashev
Producer and concert organizer,
journalist — Barnaul/Saint Petersburg
Natalia Shostina
Director of the international festival
of contemporary ethnic cultures Kamwa — Perm
Rock-Line 2015
Nikolai Grakhov
Head of a radio broadcasting group,
founder of Radio Alfa, creator and former president
of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club — Yekaterinburg
Alexey Murashov
Lead festival organizer
Revolution; musician with
Stepanov’s Starlings — Saint Petersburg
Evgeny Khavtan
Musician and founder of the band Bravo — Moscow
Elena Zorina-Novosyolova
Rock-Line festival producer — Perm —
Special award from the Rock-Line organizing committee
Oleg Novosyolov
Award and Certificate No. 001 were rightfully presented to the movement’s founder and the first producer of the Rock-Line festival.
Rock-Line 2016
Evgeny Gorenburg
Founder and director of the nationwide festival
Old New Rock — Yekaterinburg
Alexander Korotich
Artist, writer, educator, lead designer at Channel One, and art director of the Zhuzha children’s project — Moscow
Yegor Belkin
Musician with Nastya and a legend of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club — Saint Petersburg
Elena Segalova
Founder of the instrumental group Seagall; guitarist, composer, arranger, and founder of the independent GuitarPlayer Party festival — Moscow
Rock-Line 2017
Irina Valentinovna Ivenskikh
Deputy Chair of the Perm Krai Government for education, culture, sports, and tourism — Perm
The team of the autonomous nonprofit organization
Wings of Lysva
2022
Elena Novokshonova
Chief festival administrator and concert host