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Кино


Кино (Kino, Russian for cinema or movie) was a Soviet rock band formed by Виктор Цой (Viktor Tsoi) in Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg). They were one of the most famous Soviet new wave bands of the 1980s. The band was formed by Tsoi, Aleksei Rybin, and Oleg Valinskiy in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg) as a punk rock band Garin i giperboloidy (Гарин и гиперболоиды) (after a novel by Aleksey Tolstoy, Giperboloid inzhenera Garina, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin). A year later the name of the band was changed to Кино (often stylized in uppercase: КИНО), as Tsoi wanted their name to be able to be pronounced by people all over the world easily. In the summer 1982, Кино's first album 45 (according to its length in minutes) was recorded together with the musicians of the band Аквариум. The album was slowly distributed and brought them fame in the Leningrad rock scene. Their first real hit was the album Ночь (Noch, or Russian for night) released in 1986, originally released on audio reels and cassette tapes via their producer at the time, Andrei Tropillo. However, Melodiya asked Tropillo to help release it on their label, which he did without the band's consent. It ended up selling two million copies around the Soviet Union, but the band, especially Tsoi himself was furious as Tropillo did not ask him or his band to release it. It is also the album they dislike the most. Their first tour ...

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