PROLOGUE 
Hi, the unknown men who come to see what we (Sonya Troshina, Dima Titckov and Pasha Pack) have done! If you are a hippy or love Russian rock you found the right page at this site! Here we tried to tell you about Russian rock groups and rock movement in Russia. We know that what you can see here is only a little piece of the theme, which we are going to tell you about! If you want to write us a couple of words please do it: liat@mail.ru (liat@glasnet.ru) 

The rock music has a big influence on the life of teenagers. It has a big meaning in the forming of teenager's outlook. Altogether, fans of rock group (for example: Russian rock group) usually are read more than fans of pop music. This will entail with more complicated, more emotionally saturated words of rock songs. And because fans will stay like their idols, they read the books, which are reading from the musicians of their favorite groups. Fans of rock groups, by compression with fans of pop groups, often play musical instruments yourself (for example: the guitar). Many people say: "Rock is dead". It's false! 80% of teenagers listen now rock music. They create the fan clubs, which are dedicated to rock group. One of rock group can have many fan clubs. Fans been together gladly: they can discuss the creation of favorite groups together, can go to the concerts together and so on. Many youth companies consist of fans of rock group.


OLGA AREFEVA AND GROUP "KOVCHEG"

Olga was born in Verhnya Salda on the Ural River. She studied about two years at Yralskiy University, where she took part at university amateur activity. She left it for the shake of the music. Olga ended Sverdlovsk Music College named after Chaikovsky. She became a professional singer. She became the laureate of music competition: "Yurmala-89". She has taken a big part in Sverdlovsk rock club activity. She organized first Sverdlovsk acoustic festival. Since 1990 she lives in Moscow. 
There she graduated from the institute named after Gnesiny. There she set up the group "Kovcheg" ("Acoustic-Kovcheg", "Blues-Kovcheg", "Reggy-Kovcheg"). She has written about two hundreds songs. She is a laureate of some literature premise. (If you want to learn more about Olga and "Kovcheg" you may go to their official site www.ark.ru ) 

ALBUMS: 
"Божия коровка" 99 "Девочка-Скерцо" 98. "Сторона От" (2 CD)98 "Батакакумба" 95. To see the covers of the albums click here.

The history of Nautilus Pompilius: How it all began

All began in 1978 when Vyacheslav Butusov and Dmitriy Ulezkiy entered the Sverdlovsky architectural college. There they were studying and sometimes went to collective farms in a village Mamino (there they picked up vegetables and fruits). Students work all day and after work they set bonfire. There borned the first version of Nautilus Pompilius it named "Mednyi taz" in it were playing Dmitriy Ulezkiy and Igor Goncharov they found copper basin at dust-heap.
Goncharov was playing the basin; Ulezkiy was playing Butusov too. Students called them "lonely hero"; he was playing the guitar and sang "Hotel California". Then was only college. Butusov was thinking only about magazine "Arhitector". In 1984 was made the last version of the students' version of Nautilus Pompilius. 
After 12 years they make 17albums:
To see the covers of the albums click here. Here you can't see albums: "Разлука", "Подъём", "Раскол", "Титаник на Фонтанке", "Лучшие песни", "Яблокитай", "Атлантида"! 
In 1996 Nautilus Pompilius beaked-up! But Vyacheslav Butusov still gladdens us!
He made his solo album and called it "Овалы"

SOMETHING ABOUT AQUARIUM

Boris was arguably the biggest underground rock star of the former Soviet Union. It's a little hard to tell, exactly, because until quite recently the Russian rock scene operated on different rules; no zillion-dollar contracts, no gold and platinum records, just menial day jobs, homemade cassettes passed from hand to hand, and evenings spent playing for friends. At least, that's the way it was. Boris and his band, a bunch of hippie types who call themselves Aquarium, were among the first to benefit from - and pay for - all the things that have changed, but that's another story.
Until certain signals were transmitted in the late '80s, Soviet bureaucrats wouldn't even admit to Boris' existence. But people throughout the former Soviet Union gave him flowers on the street. More than one Sovietologist put him into the tradition of poets Osip Mandelstam and Yvgeny Yevtushenko, men who served as the voices of earlier generations.
One of Aquarium's underground cassette recordings was finally released - "appropriated," one might more accurately say - by Melodiya, the Soviet state record label, in 1988. An American friend, Ken Schaffer, negotiated with Soviets authorities for almost a year before convincing them to issue Boris a visa to make his first trip outside the USSR. During BG's first two-week trip, in late 1989, Kenny and his friends introduced Boris to Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, George Harrison, Frank Zappa and Dave Stewart, and accepted CBS Records' offer for an album to be recorded in the West.
Boris' Columbia Records debut was released in the summer of the next year, and that's another matter.
The album, Radio Silence, was an attempt at fusing Russian soul with Western technology. By turns hard-edged and romantic, it's the work of someone whose music owes a debt to David Bowie and the Beatles, but whose lyrics, whether in English or in Russian, come from somewhere else entirely.
Probably the album "didn't work." Due to constraints of time, impetus, or what - the album turned out to be something less than Boris Grebenshikov. Boris - whose Russian work is relatively sparse, heavily acoustic, and full of technical errors - was lost, from time to time, homogenized out in a co-ed chorus, and multiplied and thick "Western" effects.
Boris wrote the 10 English language songs himself. (He learned English, at first, via the Beatles, on VOA. He speaks the language better than most natives.)
Boris and Dave Stewart, one half of the Eurhythmics, recorded the album in London, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles with vocal contributions from Annie Lennox (Stewart's partner) and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders.
Michael Apted, the British director who made the highly acclaimed 28 Up, Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist and Nell, filmed a 90 minute documentary, The Long Way Home, that followed Boris, Aquarium, Kenny and Stewart through the slings and arrows of breaking this record, and culminated with the Eurhythmics and Aquarium onstage together in Leningrad. (If you want to learn more about Aquarium you may go to their official site www.aquarium.ru ) 

DDT

This story began at the hot summer days in Ufa, when young man - Yuri Shefchuk came to local house of amateur activity. There four men: Rustem Asanbaev, Genadiy Rodin, Vladimir Sigachev and Rustem Karimov were drinking beer and playing they favorite songs of Europeans groups. Shefchuk came for a few minutes, but still can't go out. That is how DDT borned. After this Shefchuc newer leaves DDT, although the KGB persecute him for they songs.
Shefchuc will live more than he could. It will live in us, in our hearts! Hi is popular only, maybe, like Zoy! Hi is always with Russian people! Evidence of this is that he has made about fifty concerts for Russians solders at the Chechnya. 
DDT today it's incarnate of all Russian rock! It's the life! (If you want to learn more about DDT you may go to their official site www.ddt.ru )

CHAIF

In according with romantic legend the name of this group was mixture of words "chay" and "kayf". The first concert was in 1984, but Vladimir Shahrin and Vladimir Begunov were playing together since 1979. They played on schools parties. The first in "Chaif" played: Vladimir Shahrin, Vladimir Begunov, Oleg Reshetnicov and Vadim Kukushkin. In according with official information namely Vadim Kukushkin offered the name of group. But soon Vadim Kukushkin left "Chaif" and made his own group "Harakiri". The first album was made in 1985 and was named "Жизнь в розовом дыму". It's included 2 CD, the first was named "Волна простоты" it included only ballads, the second part was named "Дурные сны" and was more dynamic but all songs "Chaif" played on acoustic guitar. 
That is how one of the Russian favorite rock group appeared. (If you want to learn more about Chaif you may go to their official site www.chaif.ru )

SPLEAN

The leader of "Splean" Sasha Vasilev was born in 1969. After school Sasha entered in "Leningradskiy institute mashina stroeniya" there he met Alexandera Morosova (and his wife). They made institute group "Mitra". And with this group they wanted entered to "Pitersky rockclub", but they wasn't accepted. Then Sasha had military training.
In 1992 Vasilev met Morozov again. But now Morozov wasn't alone, he came with keyboard instruments player. This is how basic staff of "Splean" appeared.
After this to "Splean" came Stas Berezovskiy and Nikolay Lqsov. May be because of this the official birthday of "Splean" is 27 math 1994. 
(If you want to learn more about Splean you may go to their official site www.splean.ru  or www.om.ru/splean/  )

ALBUMS:

"Пыльная Быль", 1994 "Коллекционер оружия", 1996 "Фонарь под глазом", 1997 "Гранатовый альбом", 1998 "Альтависта". 1999.To see the covers of the albums click here.

AGATA KRISTI

In 1977 in one of the Sverdlovsk school was ensemble. There played three boys: Vadim Samoylov, Alexander Kozlov and Peter May. They were very good friends. School friendship didn't disappear at the institute. And all friends entered in "Uralskiy politihnicheskiy institute". There they made group "ВИА РТФ УПИ". Even was made album "Если:". But in 1985 stuff of group changed the name and now it's "Agata Kristi". They recorded album "Если:" with new name "Свет".
But Agata doesn't love to talk about this album.
(If you want to learn more about Agata Kristi you may go to their official site www.om.ru/agata/ )

KINO 

All began in the autumn 1981, when on chippings for a long time of forgot commands ""Пилигрим", "Параграф" and "Палата номер 6 " has arisen a trio " Гарин and hyperboloids ". Couple of months after composition it up to a duet was reduced, and the title converted to "KINO", - in that pore behind it were disguised Виктор Цой and Алексей Rybin of diagonal Lines. They have entered Fate - club, in the spring of following year debuted on his scene at active involvement of the musicians of "Aquarium" and "Zoopark" have recorded an album, on total time of sounding obtaining a title "45"
That is how the most famous Russian rock group appeared!

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