The fanzine “Fank” in the context of the humorous tradition of Kozma Prutkov

The article deals with the first Volgograd fanzine “FANK”, published in 1984 by “Fan #1 of the Soviet Union” B.A. Zavgorodniy. The presented works of Kozma Tikhiy at its pages - the literary masks of B.A. Zavgorodniy - continue the game, started by Kozma Prutkov, but in the context of the world of the fantasy fans. The authors both use the structural alogism and the semantic pluralism and appeal to the paradoxes and the abundant commentaries to the text. The poetics of “FANK” is turned out to be subordinate to the Prutkov’s humorous traditions in virtue of the closeness of the creative atmosphere of the Soviet fandom to the absurdist aureola, that distinguished the personality of Kozma Prutkov.