Over the years, “Booknik Shows” featured such prominent performers as Psoy Korolenko, Lev Rubinstein, Umka, Garik Osipov, “’Appy New Year,” “Der Partizaner Kish,” Alla Ioshpe and Stakhan Rakhimov, Alexander Levenbuk, and many others.
Russian singer and literature student Pavel Lion (now Ph.D.) adopted his stage name Psoy Korolenko due to his admiration of Korolenko's work.