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.
Kino is a Soviet rock band formed in Leningrad in 1981. The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs, until his death in 1990. Over the course of eight years, Kino 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 through the underground magnitizdat distribution scene. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident in 1990. Shortly after his death, the band broke up after releasing their final album, consisting of songs that Tsoi and the group were working on in the months before his death.
45 is the debut studio album by Soviet rock band Kino. It was recorded in 1982 in the AnTrop studio, owned by Andrei Tropillo and distributed as magnitizdat. At the time, Kino consisted of Viktor Tsoi and Aleksei Rybin. Boris Grebenshchikov provided additional instrumentation and musical production. Other members of Akvarium also helped with recording.
The Tsoi Wall is a graffiti-covered wall in Moscow, dedicated to musician Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino. The wall is located at the house №37, at the intersection of Arbat Street and Krivoarbatsky Lane and is considered one of Moscow's landmarks. It is customary for Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lit cigarette in the special ash plate by the wall.
Noch is the fifth studio album by Soviet rock band Kino, released in 1986. It is the group's first official album release.
The Garin Death Ray, also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, is a science fiction novel by the noted Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1926–1927. Vladimir Nabokov included parodic elements in his tragicomedy The Waltz Invention (1938).
Gruppa krovi is the sixth studio album by Soviet rock band Kino, first released in 1988. Released at the height of Perestroika and Glasnost, together with a crime thriller titled The Needle released in the same year starring lead vocalist Viktor Tsoi, it would go on to be the band's most popular album both inside and eventually outside the Soviet Union, with songs from the album, including the title track, commonly being listed among top 100 lists of Russian music.
The untitled album is the eighth and final studio album of the Soviet rock group Kino. It was released in December 1990 by Metadigital on vinyl. The rough demo version was recorded in the Latvian village Plieņciems shortly before the death of the frontman Viktor Tsoi in a car crash. The remaining members of Kino completed the album as a tribute to Tsoi.
Yuri Dmitriyevich Kasparyan is a Russian musician best known for his time as the guitarist of the Soviet rock band Kino and as a member of Vyacheslav Butusov's group U-Piter.
Failure of Engineer Garin is a 1973 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Alexei Tolstoy. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin also abbreviated as Engineer Garin is a black-and-white 1965 Soviet science fiction film based on Aleksey Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
Assa (Асса) is a 1987 Soviet crime film directed and co-written by Sergei Solovyov. It became a cult film, mainly due 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.
"Zvezda po imeni Solntse" is a song by the Soviet rock band Kino from the album of the same name released in 1988. The song is generally considered to be one of Kino's most popular songs. It is popular among novice guitarists in Eastern Europe, and there are many cover versions. The song is broadcast daily by Russian radio stations.
The Needle is a 1988 Soviet thriller film. It stars rock musicians Viktor Tsoi and Pyotr Mamonov. The film premiered on 16 September 1988 in Almaty and in February 1989 in Moscow.
"Smotri – eto kino..." is the last known recording by the Russian-Korean (Koryo-saram) musician Viktor Tsoi. The title is a pun with the name of Tsoi's band Kino.
Leto is a 2018 Russian musical film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov that depicts the Leningrad underground rock scene of the early 1980s. The film draws loosely from the lives of the Soviet rock musicians Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Cannes Soundtrack Award. Leto also won the Best Production Designer at the 2018 European Film Awards.
"Khochu peremen!" or "My zhdyom peremen", also simply known as "Peremen!", is a song by the Soviet rock band Kino, written by Viktor Tsoi. It was made famous by its use in the 1987 film Assa in which Kino's lead singer Viktor Tsoi prominently sung the song at the end of the film. The 1989 album Posledniy geroy includes a studio-recorded release of the song.
Posledniy geroy, initially released in France as Le Dernier Des Héros, is an album by Soviet rock band Kino, which is a collection of re-recorded songs by the band. The album is notable for containing one of the band's most famous songs, "Khochu peremen!", which became a Perestroika anthem. The album was first released in France due to the band's newfound popularity abroad.
"Pachka sigaret" is a song by the Soviet post-punk band Kino from the album Star Called Sun released in 1988. One of Kino's most popular songs. It was written in 1988, when Viktor Tsoi was filmed in the Needle.
