Alexander Maley:

"In the 70s, Alexander Solovyov, together with Oleg Orlov and Leonid Antimonov, organized an unpublicized group of avant-garde artists. This group had a secret name "Wasp" (according to L. Antimonov) and it had all the parameters to be called an association: a leader and an expressed aesthetic concept. At that time, it was impossible to declare one’s aesthetics and officially exhibit it in exhibition halls. Therefore, artists were forced to either uncompromisingly go underground, or, using Aesopian language, maneuver, but still convey to the viewer their sincere feelings and position. Oleg Orlov was a teacher and painter, and Leonid Antimonov was a teacher and graphic artist, the first in the city to significantly represent the art of monotype."