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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 18: MY COMPUTER
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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 18: MY COMPUTER

The time has come for the final chapter in the story of the Arkhangelsk band Oblachny Krai — about the work that is currently nearing its logical conclusion. It's a good thing it i...
11 min read 1044 #Oblachny Kray #Arkhangelsk #2000s #Rock #Magnitizdat #Studio #History #Band history
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 3495 #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...
10 min read 3033 #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 4389 #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...
8 min read 3418 #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 2968 #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 3171 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #Rock #Hard rock #Concert #Underground #Magnitizdat #Studio #Memories #Stremya i Lyudi #Composers' Union
Chapter 12, Part 2: Seryoga's Birthday
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Chapter 12, Part 2: Seryoga's Birthday

In early June 1995, Olya really bailed me out, saving me from absolute stagnation. During those days, Tropillo was supposed to go to France and Germany for two weeks on some import...
23 min read 2497 #Andrey Tropillo #Olga Pershina #Arkhangelsk #1990s #Rock #Studio #Band history
Chapter 12, Part 1: Olga Pershina Popular
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Chapter 12, Part 1: Olga Pershina

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...
19 min read 3446 #Andrey Tropillo #Boris Grebenshchikov #Olga Pershina #Leningrad #1980s #1990s #Rock #Concert #Soviet rock #Studio #Band history
Chapter 2: Childhood, Adolescence, and Youth of the Cloudy Land. Popular
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Chapter 2: Childhood, Adolescence, and Youth of the Cloudy Land.

From "Radio" Magazine to the Dead Ears
29 min read 3088 #Oblachny Kray #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Rock #Band history
Chapter 10, Part 2: "1991"
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Chapter 10, Part 2: "1991"

It was really bad... After all, it wasn't his right hand—the one mostly used for hi-hat pumping—that got injured, but his left hand—the one used to hit the snare! This severely dev...
20 min read 2352 #Arkhangelsk #Moscow #1990s #Rock #Studio #Band history
Chapter 10, Part 1: "Sponsors" Popular
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Chapter 10, Part 1: "Sponsors"

The year 1991 arrived. I was sitting quietly at home with my family, bothering no one, watching TV, and playing the guitar. Even though it was already late spring, the weather was ...
19 min read 3915 #Oblachny Kray #Arkhangelsk #1990s #Rock #Soviet rock #Studio #Band history
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