Who is Viktor Tsoi? (2020) 

About Boris Grebenshikov (who helped and appreciated Viktor Tsoi)? I'am very sensitized to his high connection with Celtic Music and would like to know more about it if possible... BG is still very active today!

1:39 Есть ещё 9 Альбом "Последний Герой" 1989 Лучший по качеству, Запись СССР, сведения Франция

could you please do sektor gaza next? about yuri klinskikh, the lead singer of the band. Much appreciated.

you should make a video about the monuments to Viktor Tsoi created in Russia over the past 30 years.

Vladimir Vysotsky!! He is a legend!Russian legend. even Vicror Tsoy used to listen him!!!

he was the protagonist of Igla

He was the protagonist, everyone else is all npcs

He was murdered in a conspiracy too!

His hole attitude was amazing,he was a mood

He does. He needs a biopic

You mean the one that was recorded and put on their RU-vid channel? It was great 👍

That sounds absolutely surreal. RIP

@@-Batman- can you give me a link to see it please, im a hardcore kino fan from Bosnia

@@KapetanNascimento alright lemme seee

@@KapetanNascimento I think they meant these ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YIhqJo8Ran0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N83PSvdSYBI.html I'm not 100% sure though

That was close 😯

Dies at the age of 28, He could have been 62 today BAD ENDING!

​​@@viktorciganek6775 thats the thing because his of death his song are cherished and appreciation so much today. If hadn't he would've been harassed by fans to remake his old songs or caught in a controversy or his songs being parodied or remixed in a bad way am not saying the tsoi's death is good thing but it has meaning and adds to his already legendary music carrer

@@momonoski4398 you got some point, nevertheless, still, imagine how many songs he'd Release if he didn't die

@@viktorciganek6775 i agree with you on that

there was Soviet Union before Viktor, and Russia after Viktor

With all due respect, let's not overdramatize. Russian rock-and-roll scene was well established by the time Tsoi appeared

@@xXFlameHaze92Xx and there was Russia before the Soviet Union.

Don't forget Bruce Lee

@@dragonlordskater5028 It was established in the US before Elvis too

Hi polish fans of Kino from russian fan who now is in Poland. I'm glad to see your wishes and kind words about Tsoi. Peace.

Latvian fan in uk, he died 15 minutes drive from my home :( it's a shame he didn't see soviet union collapse,but i also know he would have alot to say about how Putin runs russia right now

@@brethren111 well, i own the same model Moskvich 2141(even the same year model) as Tsoi, and, yes, i am russian, and, fortunately, there are no Ikarus buses on the lines of our cities anymore.

Much love from Poland to other Polish Кино fans :) Цой жив!

Much love from the States!

Expected tho. It is simply impossible to understand how big he is and how much he means for everybody who loves him without understanding his lyrics. And not only that, but also the time when he lived, we all lived, the environment around and so many more things. He has his charm and super energy, but that's just part of his personality. His message was always the main point of his art. And to understand that you need to be part of it

I was a teenager in those days in a Western European country - and didn´t have any idea. It would have been exactly my kind of music then...

Cause they didn't sing in English! And this is what global music business needs from artist to become "popular". (Joanne Stingray, however, sang english-language covers of some of their songs. But thats different story...)

its probably because ive been gatekeeping it the last 5 years😅

But he's severly overrated in the post-soviet countries, every man, woman, child, dog and fly heard atleast five of his songs. And sometimes it's really impossible to live a day of your life not hearing a Kino song. I know that his music is good, but it's really repetative and anoying and there were periods of my life I hated the guy's guts.

As a russian person im very proud when i hear sth like this thanks for listening our music :)

@@hannasolotowizki4579 It really sounds good. There's this sweet melancholic vibes to it that just gets me

What change do you think it calls for? Not your fake democracy

Agree!!👍

Me to

Same ^^

best hair

hair 🤑

That is nicely said!

The whole world? Too strong

Damn I love this comment

Yes

Molchat doma - good music group

@@apolon92s Buerak too

nice pfp

Same

You sound just like me!

@@КостяНовиков-ш6ыyea that’s putin

I asked a Ukrainian man in Poland if he knew him and he did

Im from Ukraine.

Цой Жив!

@@peterviezik2602 I am in my 20s and I like that vibe of Kino

@@peterviezik2602 Most ukrainians do

much love to you. what's been going on around the world, and in particular Minneapolis has drawn a lot of strife into focus. luckily, as you point out, art has always been an expressions of the soul, whose need for love, justice, acceptance and hope are universal. while everyone's experiences and trials are unique, i'm also Asian-American, so I can relate to your feelings of alienation which in the past, has been a great burden. i'm glad you found your community through a shared love of music, which perhaps these days is a more straightforward & positive expression of values and solidarity compared to things like ethnic or national identity. That said, I think connecting with Tsoi over his Asian-ness (which DID happen with me) shows how representation matters, and how yes, you and I are allowed to participate too. Kino's music stands up against time because he spoke his truth. If we can follow that example, together and with honesty, we might actually see the change that Tsoi was singing about some 30-years ago.

@@freesiderxl Great love to you both.

Im a korean too but like a Viktor Tsoi from Russia.

i will tell you about Victor Tsoy and i play the guitar aslo like you. i can help if you want to know about KINO

I don’t think Tsoi is the typical “immigrant” although people in more westernized culture may think that because of his skin color and look and maybe name. He is a part of the Soviet society and people admire him because of his sole talent, there’s nothing slightly “alien”, as Americans would prefer to call those who immigrated, in his whole composition of charm. That is true equality, not the politically correct way. True socialism existed for at least a second there.

@Levenik My friends and I are listeners of КИНО and Viktor Tsoi here in the Philippines besides being a historical airsoft group, although we were born years after he passed away. We find his songs really interesting to listen and sing along to. Viktor Tsoi lives in each of our hearts and minds wherever we are from. Цой жив! Привет из филиппины.

@@kennangelotorre9623I am very glad that people from other countries are familiar with our musicians

I'm from Canada and recently discovered Kino along with many other Russian rock bands. There's just something special about Kino and the lyrics of Tsoi are genius, especially considering the late Soviet period and the many political and social changes that occurred.

I'm from Brazil, both me and my band's drummer like Kino a lot. He managed to go to Russia a couple of years back with another band as a roadie, but didn't get to buy any discs/tapes. I remember I first heard Kino in 2007/2008 because of GTA IV, before I actually got the game, I was just looking for the songs in the game and was pleasantly surprised by Gruppa Krovi, and decided to look up more songs. I even bought a couple of books to learn Russian, but since I was really young, I didn't achieve much without a teacher. During that time I also found out about DDT and Akvarium, two great bands from the time period as well. Then I went on to watch both Igla and Assa, and thanks to that I got to watch some amazing Soviet movies as well, especially the masterpieces by Tarkovsky.

I'm from Argentina and discovered группа кино last year by a video on yt called "30 years on 30 seconds" or so. In that video there was перемен on the background and then I started to listen more and more of this soviet band. In my opinion, although the songs are really simple in a musician way, the lyrics are astonishing, it's a really cool band c:

В его песнях был политический контекст

@@arseni4472 yes it did. If he admitted about the political messages in his songs he would’ve been sent to the gulag or death. But his assassination was carried out even though he stated that there was “no” political messages in his songs. This just shows how restraint he was. He wasn’t allowed to speak out publicly so he write poet but still, the USSR couldn’t tolerate his poety. Resulting in his assassination.

Ukraine

@@vik5592 a guy who hasn’t lived in that country, and, probably, been a teenager at the time drops some serious bombs, not showing a doubt.) My friend, this is not as simple as you think, a whole country going through strong stress, and, consequently, being torn to pieces, people, who had lives, jobs, loves, were left to their own demise in, practically, an anarchic country. You could have any politic beliefs, but Kino and Tsoy, firstly, for the people, were not THE politic statement. They gave people hope, hope, that in any hellish situation, there is beauty, there is morale, there is a point and not completely everyone are senseless. You may suit yourself, but I, as a person who lives in Russia, whose relatives went through the 90’s, am telling you, that you have downgraded a figure that is and has been a role model, a light in the dark for the people among the current Russia’s state, to a caricature political rogue musician. The world is not that polar, dawg.

@@azazuentnoscoperovich5376 An authoritarian government needs to crush hope. No matter how small it is, hope should not exist in any form by the government. As someone who was born in one of the most powerful modern dictatorships, I can tell you from my personal experience and things that I have seen that the government can be the only hope in the heart of the citizens, and the government will destroy ANYTHING that gives hope to the civilian population. To give you a perspective, the regime I was living under had everything from facial recognition to a CCTV camera around every corner of the street. It is reasonable to say they had total control over the civilians' lives. Back to Tsoy, he gave hope to the people, and it is a fact we all agree on. It doesn’t matter whether his songs were political or not. The end result is the same. Tsoy’s songs did not aline with the narrative of the Soviet regime. Most importantly, he gave hope to the Soviet people, and the Soviet government can not coexist with any influentical figure that they can not control, at the same time he is also giving hope to the civilian population: an alternative choice. There was just no way room for Tsoy since he was an influential figure whose’s song conveyed a total opposite message to what the government is trying to push. This is why saying he was killed by the KGB makes sense. Because his death benefited no one but the government. However, I do agree that his death was truly an accident. We will never know the truth but we know the true effects his death had. Tsoy was a symbol of hope, and his death marked the end of him being a symbol of hope.

I only came to know him thanks to Metallica tribute from 2019 concert in Moscow!!!Since then i'm a huge fan of Victor🎸🎤💐So deeply sorry he died so young😭I wonder how he'd feel about Metallica playing his legendary song Gruppa Krovi!That was amazing👏👏👏

I am frome thailand and I love this rock band. His music is very nice

Love and peace from France (Eve, 69 years old)

그렇네요...

тяжело..

Or maybe it's just because he has good songs

是的

SAME

No , king and joker

@@Sholovlog ha-ha-ha, it was funny.

@@Sholovlog a court jester, not joker, btw.

Gruppa Krovi and Radio Africa of Aquarium are the Best Rock Albums of Russia for me

Браво was somewhat big too

Картошка тумбочка кровать))))

The same combo is what may get me to learn russian. I'd love to understand and sing along to this wonderful music

Good luck on your journey! How are you now?

This is the main reason why I like Russian music

Так себе жив

@@кто-л8ч ok

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@@ridersk1220 *Nazdár :D*

russian girls like both😅

Korean originated from china

IM CHAOXIANZU TOOOOO, so real

Yes, it's sad a little bit, because I think Viktor is most popular Soviet rock musician

the KGB murdered him? i've never heard of this before, could you elaborate on it? What evidence presents itself that may lead one to think that?

@@theamazingaviator1084 it’s just what people say, it’s not exactly a “fact”. I do recall seeing an independent documentary in Russian at some point that explained the theory

@@theamazingaviator1084 I am russian (sorry for my shitty english), and dispite the fact i was born 2 years after Tsoi's death, i know some facts from older people and from my own experience about his death. Codi is totally correct that among older russians it was common knowledge that the KGB murdered him. There were a lot of writings on the walls and slogans "We know. We won't forgive." even back in 1990. But with the time flow people are tend to forget, so new generations don't know about that and just know "official" version from Wiki. But if you spend a little time investigating, you will see yourself, that the official version can not be truth. Everything looks stupid and impossible in it. For example the speeds of vehicles, involved into crash, were stated in official documents so high (to justify the deadly injuries), that the (shitty) Moskvitch of Tsoi would had literally desintegrated under Ikarus bus, but on all of the photos the car has relatively small damage for such an impact, as well as the bus has almost no damage at all (google carefully, 99% of photos in the internet are not actual ones, but fake from other accidents of same cars or from movies about Tsoi). Also, that was a turn at the point of accident, and it was impossible for the bus to pass it on such speed, as well as none of the drivers on Tsoi's place would have approached it on such speed from his direction. The Militsia (police) and KGB did a great effort in hiding evidences and preventing the details of accident flee into the masses, which also gives you an idea. Unfortunatelly, most of the analysis vids with plenty of details on this theme were done by unprofessional russians, so they are not very logical and dont't have translation, so i can't advise you anyhing at the moment(( Many other famous soviet people (musicians mostly) of that time got murdered as well +- a year from Tsoi. Some got "accidentally shot" after writing a blaming letter to Yeltsin, others fallen out of the windows etc. - the KGB was preparing those big changes in russia and was removing people, who could have had a significant influence on broad masses of people if being an opposition to the upcoming government. Then the same fate got GKChP members, who were trying to stop the Yeltsin's coup, but were outnumbered by bribed corrupt officials and got tagged "rebels" themselves. The country was burning in agony, and Tsoi was a hero people needed (despite the fact he never interefered in politics) so badly but unfortunatelly first to pass away.

@@НикитаМедведев-с5х I was interested in this and just did a bunch of reading - while the official version definitely seems like it could be wrong, could that not also be because it was just a version of events/investigation done by a local who was just not very good at his job and probably had another 5 deadly car crashes to do documentation for that same month? Also, in the reports I read (from a few English journalists who went over and spoke to the bus driver/his wife) - they all seem to agree without a doubt that the accident did occur - surely this one could've just been a legit accident? And if the KGB were involved/controlled the investigation - why did they not slander him and say that he was drunk as well? Surely that would've made it easier to believe.

​@@SovietLensReviews Hi, friend. Well, as i mentioned earlier, i am just an average russian, who was interested in this theme a little bit more than others. I can not tell you for sure, i am just bringing to our common attention info about what most of older russians believed in. I personally do not protect any of versions. I didn't have a chance to check the crash site that day myself, as well as i couldn't check the documents. Otherwise - i guess i would have to collect all the facts to write a book about that) One thing you can know for sure - if in russia the KGB is interfering into something, and the details are being hidden - this means they did it. Proved hundreds times. Your words are very logical and i surely can agree with those, but you are trying to focus on the crash version itself only, while missing from your scope million of other important facts, surrounding it, which i guess are well-known to post-soviets, but unknown to people outside former ussr. Regarding the bus driver - people say he was "taken into circulation" by the KGB. Hence he will never tell the truth. Most likely it was even not him behind the wheel that moment. Even many of his words in first questionings were going against the real facts. Some say he even said at first the Moskvitch was black(dark), while it actually was blue. But, as of his own words, every year he bring flowers to the place of accident. Regarding the verson itself - did you know, that the one is currently now "official" was the third they thrown at us? Firstly they tried to tell people Tsoi was drunk\drugged - but the true details of blood expertise became known to broad masses almost instantly. Then they came up with the new version - Tsoi felt asleep after many sleepless nights at the studio - but this one was destroyed by his wife, who told that he was that whole night sleeping at home with her (where from he actually moved on to his fishing trip). Then came the current version with the maneuver, but it was also destroyed by independent experts, despite the militisiya\KGB blocked and cleared the crash site (they forgot about tracks on sandy roadside or smthng like that). For what reason would they lie, if it was just a normal accident? Unfortunatelly, i do not have skill and time to make an analysis video on youtube, but i can collect some interesting facts that are probably hard to find for non-soviets, and share them with you, if you really got interested with this piece of history.

Только музыка Кобейна переоценена. По моему Нирвана средненькая группа. Цой гораздо лучше но the Cure по моему еще лучше. Причина почему эти музыканты стали легендами- их ранняя смерть. Жили бы Цой и Кобейн сейчас, уверен такими культовыми не были бы

@@arte0021 Nirvana as such has mediocre music but the thing that drove them to success was how they connected with the people through feelings. Same as tsoi

Yeah!! ✌

Ukrainians like other minor nations identify with Tsoi heavily because of his partly non-Russian heritage. He's popular in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan etc) in the same way.

ты хоть понял, что они продвигают?

Одна израильская группа делает каверы на иврите. Кстати перевод хороший. И соло на трубе добавили

Not all of us are Russophobes that still suffer from the Red Scare

@@dela_v8227 That's good

@@hefenzy а что за ребята?

Im from the us and very interested

that's a cool explanation man, sounds super relatable to me!

молодым

Мой порядковый номер на рукаве. Пожелай мне удачи в бою... пожелай мне удачи.

I'm agree

его не забудут никогда, он настолько известен, что гарантированно, его будут помнить многие поколения вперёд

Я видел школьника мелкого шел с телефоном и играл Цой , меня это улыбнуло )

Достаточно вспомнить строчки "а потом нам становится страшно что-то менять"

GTA IV

or maybe Queen is a british version of Kino ;)

@@freesiderxl as one person describes Victor choi as the heart of the group, without him the group would not exist

Nah, more of The Rolling Stones/The Smiths of Russia

@@cakebear9534 I've been listening to Kino, and the subsequent new wave/post-punk artists it spurred in the Eastern Bloc, for about six years now. I think what makes Kino so unique is that it was a bit of everything- some songs you get the Cure/Depeche and perhaps a little Clash or Joy Division. Others are more 'Queen' like or even Stones-ish. The band is so hard to pin down, has so many western analogues, and all while being its own unique thing. Some of the newer groups definitely picked up where Kino/Tsoi left off (and you can absolutely feel the influence). Check out: ОБРАЗ Фирма-однодневка мой друг магнитофон Конец Электроники Буерак Молчат Дома (a bit of a stretch and more on the 'electronic side' of Kino, but definitely some similarities) Черниковская хата Ploho.

@@Sigmagnat650 Thanks man! God bless!