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| Origin | Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| Genres | Alternative rock, new wave, post-punk, jazz rock, punk jazz, freak folk, experimental rock, art rock |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Members | Leonid Fedorov Oleg Garkusha Viktor Bondarik Dmitriy Ozersky Nikolay Rubanov Boris Shaveinikov Mikhail Kolovsky Vladimir Volkov |
| Past members | Evgeniy Chumichev Sergey Gubenko Sergey Lobachev Arkadiy Volk Sergey Rogozhin Kirill Miller Igor Cheridnik Nikolay Fedorovich Igor Skaldin Pavel Litvinov Dmitriy Matkovsky Vladimir Vesyolkin Evgeniy Dyatlov Yuriy Parfyonov |
| Website | http://www.auktyon.ru/ |
Auktyon (Russian : АукцЫон, pronounced [ɐʊktsɨˈon] . Auktsyon) is a Russian alternative rock band from Saint Petersburg.
Contents
- Band members
- Current members
- Former members
- Timeline
- Discography
- Studio albums
- References
- External links
The band was founded by Leonid Fyodorov at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad. [1] Though they originally played post-punk and new wave, the group came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature. [1]
Auktyon was particularly popular from 1987 through 1995, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for Leningrad. [1] The group continues to play together and to release new albums. They toured the United States in 2006 [2] in support of their first US release, the album Pioneer. The group returned to the US in 2008 when they released the album Girls Sing. [3] [4] [5]
