Agata Kristi (Cyrillic: Агата Кристи) is a Russian rock group that was established in Sverdlovsk in 1988. The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were murdered. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...