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The band was formed in the city of Sverdlovsk in 1980. Urfin Juice, named after the antagonist of a popular children's book by Alexander Wolkov, became a new, radical phenomenon in the country. It was a symbiosis of Led Zeppelin and Supertramp, with sound experiments and strange, unusual lyrics. The band recorded 3 albums, including “15” (1981), which brought them legendary status in Russian rock. Even now the album is the one of the most successful progressive rock albums in Russia. The band, for the whole six years of their history, gave only 25 live performances. This can be explained...

Alexander Porfiryevitch Borodin (Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’evič Borodin) (Nov.12, 1833 – Feb.27, 1887) was a Russian composer. Though during his life he had chemistry as his main profession, Borodin also became a well known musician. He is considered a member of the so-called “The Great Five”, a group of Russian composers who were dedicated to producing specifically national, grassroots kind of classical music. His fame out of Imperial Russia was introduced through Franz Liszt, who in 1880 held a performance of Borodin’s first symphony in Germany. He was admired also by French Countess of Mercy-Argenteau. Borodin’s music is noted...