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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...

Vital post-grunge/indie rock act from Krasnodar (somewhere in Russia). They cite Nirvana and the Manics among the influences, distrubute their album ("Chudnenko", 2008) for free and look very tough onstage in glitter make-up and with a blue boa. .

"Виноградный День" ("Grape Day" in English) are a Russian grindcore band formed in 2006. Their lyrics are almost entirely about alcohol (the band takes its name from the cheap alcoholic Russian drink 'Grape Day' popular among female teenagers and hipsters) and tend to be extremely silly and non-serious. .

Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Гра́дский; born November 3, 1949, Kopeysk) is a Soviet and Russian Rock singer, bard and composer, and has sometimes been called the Soviet Union's most popular recording artist. He is known to have a three-and-a-half octave range voice, and has performed with John Denver on the song "Let Us Begin..." Gradsky is also known as "Granddad of Soviet rock" .