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«Ласковый май» — известная советская мальчиковая диско-группа, приобретшая наибольшую популярность у молодёжи СССР в конце 1980-х годов. Солист Юрий Шатунов, композитор Сергей Кузнецов, руководитель группы с 1987 года — Андрей Ра́зин. Скандально известна тем, что в конце 1980-х — начале 1990-х годов «клоны» группы гастролировали одновременно в разных городах, тиражируя практику, присущую тому времени. Группа подвергалась насмешкам музыкальных критиков за «примитивность» мелодий и текстов. Однако если объективно рассматривать движение молодёжной музыки в России в период с 1987 по 1992 годы можно считать[источник?], что «Ласковый май» в 1989-м году был группой, оказывавшей огромное влияние на развитие поп-музыки в России. Группа начала...

Кому Вниз (Komu Vnyz - "Whom's Down" in ukrainian) is a gothic-rock/industrial/folk band formed in Kiev, Ukraine in 1988. The band consists of Andriy Sereda, Serhiy Stepanenko, Vladyslav Malyugin, Eugene Razin, Vladyslav Makarov From the beginning Komu Vnyz played music that didn't enter the common canons of Ukrainian rock stage of that time. The lyric was complicated, impressive and full of dark romance, that is common for gothic-rock, although even then Komu Vnyz were using some elements of industrial energetic , that become their characteristic feature today. Because of inability to find some standard music term critics in 1991 called...

Zahar Borisovich May was born in Kharkov in 1969. He wrote his first song ("Holodilnik pust") in 1987. During 1988 - 2002 lived in USA. In 2002 Zahar May returned to Russia and created with Saint-Petersburg's musicians group "Shiva". Nowadays Zahar lives in Kharkov and often plays solo concerts. .

Yuri Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and press correspondent, a ski instructor, and an actor in many famous Russian films and plays. He participated in and documented expeditions to remote areas of the Soviet Union. His compositions included songs, poetic prose, plays, screenplays and short stories. Vizbor is often compared with his contemporaries Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. The topics of Vizbor's songs were observational, focusing on his love of nature and of travel. By using his extremely varied professions as...