Russian Rocks Too (Part 9)

Through the Eighties, variety of proficient bands appeared within the Russian provinces. A band with genre of pop rock named Nautilus Pompilius, from a town of Ural Mountain, Sverdlovsk, was one from the provinces. Aside from that band, there's also a vocalist - former vocalist of that band - named Nastia Poleva. After being a vocalist for that band she made her solo career by formed and fronting her own band named Nastia.
Urfin Dzhus, a heavy-metal type of band also was a band from that province, and there are other bands like Chai-f, a distinguished R&B band. Chai-f actually combined the musical parts of West Russian folks music.
From the north of Russia, town named Arkhangel’sk, there's a band named Oblachnyi Krai (Cloudy Region).
Then there's Vostochnyi Sindrom, a band that come from the remote place which was a quintessential band that ever came from Siberia, powerful and uncompromising.
From Novosibirsk, one band called themself as Kalinov Most (Kalinov Bridge) uniquely mix a folk rock music with somekind of their versions of 'nearly' heavy metallic.

Nautilus Pompilius

Russian Rocks Too (part 7)

DDT was another band from Leningrad. They were very successfull. Iurii Shevchuk fronted the band as guitar player and he was the main composer of songs for DDT. Shaped originally within the remote town of Ufa, Siberia's edge republic called Bashkir. But they constantly have trouble with native authorities thanks to Shevchuk’s uncompromising lyrics, that were crucial of the social issues. Some of them for example are the Afghan war, and therefore the forms and hypocrisy that made by the goverment of Soviet about their country's life.
In 1987 DDT moved to Leningrad (since renamed St Petersburg) to search for somekind of a liberal and inventive climate. They're remained active till this day and they are also very popular, with huge of following and massive audiences with their music which is mix of heavy metal progressive rock type of sound.

DDT