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Long reads about Oblachny Kray: history, interviews, press and memories

Concert announcements and short news are in the section News.

Total articles: 7

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Scena and Oblachny Kray: the band Bogaev recorded and valued NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

Scena and Oblachny Kray: the band Bogaev recorded and valued

Lapshin's saxophone on "Vershina idiotizma", Abroskin's drums, Lukin's bass and the recording of the 1984 concerts: what linked Scena with Oblachny Kray.
3 min read 33 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
Svyataya Luiza and Oblachny Kray: Budnik, Ilyichev and "Minister of Sorrow" NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

Svyataya Luiza and Oblachny Kray: Budnik, Ilyichev and "Minister of Sorrow"

The Svyataya Luiza vocalist sang on the Leningrad "Ublyuzhya Dolya", and its bass player played with Oblachny Kray at the 1987 festival. Two Arkhangelsk bands and the people they s...
4 min read 30 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
Autodafe: sworn brothers of Oblachny Kray NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

Autodafe: sworn brothers of Oblachny Kray

With this band Oblachny Kray shared drummers, album covers, trips to Leningrad and even an album. The story of Sergey Bogaev's "sworn brothers".
6 min read 31 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray: who was friends with whom NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray: who was friends with whom

Shared drummers, covers drawn by friends, nights on pushed-together speakers and trips to Leningrad: how Arkhangelsk bands helped Oblachny Kray and one another.
6 min read 27 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Rock club #Soviet rock
A photo shoot with records outside "Pod Tankom" (May 1989) NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

A photo shoot with records outside "Pod Tankom" (May 1989)

A spontaneous picture by Sergey Supalov: Denisov, Samarin, Korelsky and Lukin with records by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Nazareth against the background of a summer café.
3 min read 23 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Rock #Soviet rock
"Blues Inspector" on Arkhangelsk television (June 1987) NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

"Blues Inspector" on Arkhangelsk television (June 1987)

How Arkhangelsk rockers got on TV in the year of the V rock festival: the series "Music That Unites", clips of Oblachny Kray and the filming of Blues Inspector on the steps of the ...
5 min read 26 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
"Pod Tankom": the café where Arkhangelsk rock used to meet NEW
Arkhangelsk rock around Oblachny Kray

"Pod Tankom": the café where Arkhangelsk rock used to meet

The café had no name, but it had an English tank outside: here samizdat was passed from hand to hand, concerts were announced and meetings arranged.
4 min read 34 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Concert #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Rock club