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Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (399 words) |
 | The band was created by a young Soviet dissident, Egor Letov, in December of 1984. |
| Letov and his bandmates spent years in hiding, recording songs in the kitchens and cellars of their friends' flats. |
| Contrary to popular image of an anti-communist, Letov himself claimed to be a "true communist" and has not abolished this claim until the most recent switch in his beliefs. |
| Sergey Letov, Russian musician. Biography (459 words) |
| Sergey Letov was born in Semipalatinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan, in 1956 and then lived in Omsk, Siberia, where still lives now his brother Egor Letov. |
| Sergey Letov participated in happenings and performances of Moscow conceptualists - Collective Actions, later with Andrei Monastyrsky, and TOTART since 1984, with Rea Nikonova since 1995, played at many art exhibitions in the galleries in Moscow, Bremen, Berlin, Smolensk. |
| Since 1984 Sergey Letov plays with rock and alternative bands, such as Aquarium, Centre, DK, Alissa, DDT, Vesyolye Kartinki, Doctor, Nochnoi Prospect, Atonal Syndrom, Soft Animals and Ivan Sokolovsky, Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Egor Letov. |
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