Ленинград и Кипелов | en
Ленинград is a fourteen-piece ska band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 1997. The band's frontman is Сергей Шнуров (Sergey Shnurov). In 2005, its music was featured in the film Everything Is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood.
The band, and especially its leader, Shnurov, has long been famous for its catchy beats and irrepressibly bad language, somehow managing to be one of the top bands in Russia despite almost never being clean enough to earn radio play and despite its live concerts being banned in Moscow.
In 2008 Leningrad disbanded. Its former members run Рубль and Spitfire. The band reunited in...
Valery Kipelov was born in 1958, and has been the frontman of russian heavy metal legend Aria for seventeen years. Also, in 1997 he and Sergey Mavrin recorded duet album "Dark Ages", that included super-hit "Ya Svoboden" ("I Am Free").
In 2002 scandal divided Aria to halfs. Kipelov, Terentyev and Maniakin, joined by Sergey Mavrin, started their new band, entitled in honour of their leader. They played songs from "Dark Ages" and those of Aria's songs that was written by some of them. In 2003 Terentiev left the band to start his own project Arteria. A short while later Kipelov...
In 1997 Valery Kipelov and Sergey Mavrin, members of russian heavy metal band Ария, released their duet sideproject album Смутное Время (Time of Troubles), which, among other songs, included the famous ballad "Ya Svoboden (I am Free). .
![Jah Khalib: Реакция на Ольгу Бузову, Элджея, Ленинград и Пашу Техника [NR]](/storage/web/cache/videos/big/16_06_2019/muzlan_4a8d4081e3f6f19e1c9511c1ec8d7ac2.jpg?h=140&w=140&fm=webp&s=b5d30c69eb032c04c1892fbfd62bb996 "Jah Khalib: Реакция на Ольгу Бузову, Элджея, Ленинград и Пашу Техника [NR]")
