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Aquarium or Akvarium is a Russian rock group formed in Leningrad in 1972. The band had many member changes over its 40-year history, and at the end the only remaining original member was lead singer and founder Boris Grebenshchikov. Former band members have included Anatoly Gunitsky, Mikhail Feinstein, Dyusha Romanov, Vsevolod Gackel, and Sergey Kuryokhin.
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Radio Silence is an album by Boris Grebenshchikov, leader of the Russian group Aquarium. The album was recorded in 1988 - 1989 in studios in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, mostly with Western musicians, and produced by David A. Stewart. It was hailed as the first contract of a Russian rock musician with a Western label.
Ken Schaffer is an American inventor and former publicist.
Kino was a Soviet rock band formed in Leningrad in 1982. The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs. Over the course of eight years, Kino had released over 90 songs spanning over seven studio albums, as well as releasing a few compilations and live albums. The band's music was also widely circulated in the form of bootleg recordings. After Tsoi's death in a car accident in 1990, the band shortly broke up after releasing their last album, consisting of songs that Tsoi and the group were working on in the months before his death.
Sergey Nikolayevich "Chizh" Chigrakov is a Russian rock performer and songwriter. Most of his current songs are recorded with his band, Chizh & Co.
F.M. is a novel in two volumes by Boris Akunin, which reached bookstores in Russia on 20 May 2006.
Chief of Kamchatka is the second album of the Soviet rock band Kino. The name of the album is a play on the title of the 1967 Soviet film Chief of Chukotka.
Zoopark was one of the founding rock groups which began the Russian rock movement. The group was founded in 1981. It consisted of singer-songwriter Mike Naumenko, guitarist Aleksandr Khrabunov and a varied group of artists. The first album recorded was All Brothers are Sisters with Boris Grebenshchikov in 1978. They recorded on the banks of the Neva River in Leningrad with a "choir" of drunken friends and colleagues playing percussion on metal cans. Naumenko was a rock outcast, concentrating his work on electrified hard-core blues, although his Russian-language poetic songwriting made him a favorite in the hippie underground. His inspirations included Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, T. Rex, B.B. King and Chuck Berry.
Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.
Mike Naumenko was a Soviet rock musician, singer-songwriter and interpreter, leader of the band Zoopark.
Iryna Zhychuk is a Ukrainian artist and designer. Winner of Ukrainian Art Week. Participant of German Art Week, Russian Art Week, and Turkish Art Week.
Yuri Alexeyevich Ardashev is a Russian theatre director, actor, and professional drummer. Opera La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc, directed by Yuri Ardashev, became the nominee of the national award "Golden Mask" (2009) in the categories "Best Performance", "Best Actress".
Assa (Асса) is a 1987 Soviet crime film directed by Sergei Solovyov. It became a cult film, mostly thanks to the fact that it was one of the films that brought Russian rock music from the underground into the mainstream. Solovyov made a sequel to the film twenty years later, 2-ASSA-2.
Joanna Stingray is an American singer, actress, music producer and socialite. She was a key figure in popularising Soviet and Russian rock music and culture in the West in the 1980s.
The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Kirill Yurievich Grebenshchikov is a Russian film and theater actor.
Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. An expanded eight-part version titled Anna Karenina aired on Russia-1 television channel.
