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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...

Ygyatta - photo 1 2010 - YGYATTA

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...

In 1993, Olga Pershina began appearing at the studio more and more frequently. She was a legendary lady from the very heart of Leningrad's rock-n-roll scene, which by that time had...

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...

OK-2 Agriorock - photo 1 1982 - OK-2 Agriorock

A Bitch's Share 1984 - Photo 1 1984 - A Bitch's Share

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...