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

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"Scum from the kitchen of anti-Sovietism": Bogaev's interview in the samizdat magazine "Zombi" no. 10 (1988) NEW
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"Scum from the kitchen of anti-Sovietism": Bogaev's interview in the samizdat magazine "Zombi" no. 10 (1988)

Four pages of Moscow samizdat: a typescript interview with Sergey Bogaev, a retelling of newspaper criticism and the band leader's own words about five concerts, bans and "our own ...
5 min read 11 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Concert #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
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Bogaev in Pravda Severa, 5 February 1988: "We want to shout the truth"

A fragment of N. Antonyan's report "Weak-nerved people are asked to leave…" (Pravda Severa, 5 February 1988): a live conversation with Sergey Bogaev nine months after the Moscow de...
6 min read 14 #1980s #Arkhangelsk #Oblachny Kray #Rock #Soviet rock
OBLACHNY KRAY in 'Moskovsky Komsomolets' 06.03.1992 Popular
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OBLACHNY KRAY in 'Moskovsky Komsomolets' 06.03.1992

FANTASTIC! The Arkhangelsk band 'Oblachny Krai' knew about the upcoming coup a year and a half before the August events — even earlier than Shevardnadze himself! Otherwise, how can...
4 min read 3554 #Oblachny Kray #Arkhangelsk #Moscow #1980s #1990s #Rock #Metal #Punk rock #Concert #Underground #Magnitizdat #Vinyl
Riding the Waves of the Soviet Press. OBLACHNY KRAY. NORTHERN LEGEND. 1987 Popular
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Riding the Waves of the Soviet Press. OBLACHNY KRAY. NORTHERN LEGEND. 1987

This is how the musicians of "Kray" classify their own work: for some reason, not 5, but 7 "albums" circulated in Moscow. Most likely, this is due to the fact that the first two re...
9 min read 3097 #Oblachny Kray #Arkhangelsk #Moscow #1980s #Rock #Concert #Festival #Soviet rock #Magnitizdat #Studio
"Sergey Bogaev and His Clouds" Popular
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"Sergey Bogaev and His Clouds"

Music lovers from the late eighties have not forgotten this name. Sergey Bogaev, the leader of the band Oblachny Krai, stood at the forefront of the rock movement. Alas, this north...
7 min read 4431 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Konstantin Kinchev #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #1980s #1990s #Rock #Concert #Studio #Memories #Ublyuzhya Dolya #Stremya i Lyudi
Oblachny Kray — Patriot — Anthropos, 2003. Popular
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Oblachny Kray — Patriot — Anthropos, 2003.

Believe it or not, Oblachny Krai was the first so-called Soviet rock band I ever heard in my life (not counting a tape of 'Radio Africa' in '84 in such terrible quality that I coul...
7 min read 3461 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #1980s #1990s #2000s #Rock #Metal #Hard rock #Punk rock #Concert #Soviet rock #Magnitizdat #Stremya i Lyudi #Band history
Love of Life (Zvuki.Ru) Popular
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Love of Life (Zvuki.Ru)

Sergey Bogaev is a wild and enigmatic master of the electric guitar. About ten years ago, he shone on the stages of various rock festivals, demonstrating an extreme level of playin...
3 min read 3014 #Oblachny Kray #1990s #2000s #Rock #Hard rock #Punk rock #Festival #Vinyl #Studio
Stremya and the People (Zvuki.Ru) Popular
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Stremya and the People (Zvuki.Ru)

One of the distinctive features of Arkhangelsk's Oblachny Krai was their ability to organically combine the melodious chanting of Russian folk songs with powerfully played hard roc...
14 min read 3215 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #Rock #Hard rock #Concert #Underground #Magnitizdat #Studio #Memories #Stremya i Lyudi #Composers' Union