Ленинград и Юлия Коган | 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...

Yulia Savicheva (Юлия Савичева) is a popular Russian singer. She was born on February 14, 1987 in Kurgan, Russia. Music is Julia's passion and both of her parents are musicians. After graduating from music school, her mother worked as a music school teacher for 12 years. Her father is a drummer. Having such a creative and musical family has meant Julia grew up as a very artistic child. She liked singing, drawing, dancing and performed her first solo dance on stage at the age of four. One of Julia’s favourite movies is "Léon" which is directed by Luc Besson, a...