Biography of Victor Tsoi is complete

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In addition, Viktor Tsoi became known thanks to his work in the cinema, playing in the famous films of the Assa and Needle perestroika era. His parents were a physical education teacher Valentina Vasilievna and engineer Robert Maksimovich. Victor owes the Korean surname and appearance to the grandfather from his father - Korean, who came to the northern capital from Kazakhstan.

Victor was the only child in the family. Viktor Tsoi family: aunt, father, mother, grandparents, he read a lot from early childhood, loved to draw and sculpt, and in the fifth grade he became interested in playing the guitar. When the boy was eleven, his parents divorced. Father left his family, but a year later the former spouses came together again.

But Victor has always been with a mother with a mother with a mother. I myself was interested in how talented people were being formed. The main thing, I wanted to help Vit to open up, develop his abilities, ”she wrote later. Viktor Tsoi in childhood and youth, education in parallel with a comprehensive school in E Victor went to the “artist”. According to the drawing teacher, the boy had excellent abilities, but he was not at all inclined to regular and painstaking work: “If he wants - draws and draws wonderful, but if he does not want, you won’t force it.” One of the pictures of the authorship of Viktor Tsoi, after graduating from the eighth grade in the year, Victor entered the V.

Art School named after V. devoting more and more time to making music and not wanting to draw campaign posters and generally engage in the fact that he did not bring moral satisfaction, Victor abandoned his studies and was expelled from the school for poor performance. In the same years, he was imbued with respect for the cult Soviet singers and actors Mikhail Boyarsky and Vladimir Vysotsky, and later a serious passion for the work of Bruce Lee was added to this.

Victor began to engage in karate and imitate his idol. According to Pashkov’s memoirs, Victor loved music very much, but at first he did not know how to play the guitar. Throwing off, the guys bought a bass gitar in the commission store: they thought that it was easier to learn how to play, because there were “only four strings”. The third member of the group knocked on the pioneer drum, and together they performed hard rock in the style of Ozzi Osborne and Black Sabbath.

The guys grew up and very quickly progressed in the game. They began to communicate a lot and began to play with Mike Naumenko “Zoo” and Andrei Panov, known by nicknamed Pig. At the turn of the X and X, the Pig was considered the “main handmus of Leningrad”, and in his apartment the new punk group “Automatic Satisrals”, which included Viktor Tsoi and Alexei Rybin, began to rehearse in his apartment.

Thanks to numerous apartmentmen, the group gained fame outside Leningrad and began to regularly go to Moscow to the apartment of Artemy Troitsky in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Viktor Tsoi, in the company of friends of Pig, sometimes had to get to Moscow on “dogs”-several electric trains with transfers, and during one of these trips, Boris Grebenshchikov, a foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the leader of the rock movement of that time, noticed in the Tsoi carriage.

He later wrote about this meeting: “When you hear the right and right song, there is always such a trembling of the discoverer who found a gem or an amphora knows what century - then I had the same.” Grebenshchikov promised the young musician his support, and later introduced to Andrei Tropillo, Sergey Kurekhin and other famous people. In the photo: Grebenshchikov, Kurekhin, Tsoi, Fanstein and Naumenko in the summer of the year Viktor Tsoi, Alexei Rybin and Oleg Valinsky organized a new group called “Garin and Hyperboloids”, and this group became a member of the Leningrad rock club.

But soon one of the founders, Oleg Valinsky, went to serve in the army, and the group changed its name to the laconic “cinema”. The patronage of the BG and in this matter played an important role: it was he who brought Victor and his team to Andrei Tropillo's studio to the house of young equipment, and also “shared” the missing musicians from his Aquarium group. The album was ready in the summer of the year.

The total duration of the songs on it was 45 minutes, which determined its name - "45". During the work on the album, the group played its first electric concert at the festival of the Leningrad rock club, and the whole concert went to the drama-machine, since the “cinema” had not yet had its drummer. Cinema - the last hero, Live in the Olympic on February 19 was a large joint concert of the Kino and Aquarium groups, at which the songs “Electric Room”, “Aluminum Cucumbers” and “Trolley” were performed.

Then Yuri Kasparyan entered the main composition of the group, and soon after that Alexei Rybin left the group. Viktor Tsoi and Boris Grebenshchikov, after rehearsals with the new guitarist, recorded the album "46", which was planned as a demos of the future album "Head of Kamchatka", but slowly began to spread among the students as an independent album.Unfortunately, musical activity had to be interrupted for a while: in the year, the “hung” on Viktor Visel, and in order to avoid it, the singer simulated a suicide attempt and lay down a month and a half for examination in a psychiatric hospital on a buckle.

Victor was hiding from service in a mental hospital after discharge of Tsoi wrote the song “Transquilizer”, and in the spring of the year the Kino group performed at the second festival of a rock club, where she was awarded the title of a laureate. The festival was opened by the composition “I declare my house by a nuclear zone,” which was recognized as the best anti -war song. Then, in the year, Georgy Guryanov “Gustav” joined the group as a drummer, a backing vocalist and an arranger.

Tsoi was a convinced antimilitarist in the heyday of the musical career in the summer of the year, the Kino group began the record of the album “Head of Kamchatka” in the Antrop studio Andrei Tropillo, and again Boris Grebenshchikov came to the rescue, to which Sergey Kurekhin joined. Soon the final, “gold” composition of the group was formed: Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparyan, Georgy Guryanov and the new member-bass player Igor Tikhomirov.

The cover of the “head of Kamchatka” in the year in the same studio “Antrop” the group began to work on the album “Night”, but the matter was moving slowly: the musicians wanted to find a new sound and techniques of the game. Leaving the work on this album for a while, Viktor Tsoi moved to the studio of Alexei Vishni and quickly, in a week with a small one, recorded the album “This is not love”.

With the presentation of Andrei Tropillo, fans loving called this album “Music of the Rotor” - the music “played by the punks”. In the same year, work began on the album “Blood Group”. The American girlfriend of the musicians, the famous rock enthusiast Joanna Stingrey brought to Leningrad the homemade four-channel portable studio “Yamaha MT 44”, and the musicians firmly settled at Gustav’s house.

Here, the whole group, according to Artemy Troitsky, "was hanging out, rehearsed, painted and - from time to time - listened and recorded new songs." Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko in the year of the Album “Blood Group” was published, and a wide recognition and real glory fell on the group. At the end of the year, an album “Star named Sun” was recorded, and in the year the group acquired a new producer - Yuri Aizenshpis.

In the carpentry workshops “I liked his work, I liked with its sincerity, with its energy, and from the very first minutes of communication the author himself liked: calm, thorough, friendly,” Aizenshpis recalled. The new producer began to organize numerous performances and shootings on television: the popularity of Kino quickly gained an all -Union scale, the youth Kinomania began.

After that, Tsoi and Kasparyan closed from everyone in the country near Jurmala and began to work on a new, last album. He came out after the death of Viktor Tsoi and received the unofficial name "Black Album". Work in the movie with the debut work of Viktor Tsoi in the cinema was the role in the diploma film by Sergey Lysenko, “The End of the Vacation”, shot in the year.

This film consists of four clips of the Kino group, interconnected by a narrative with another plot, in which Victor also played one of the main roles. After the film “End of the holidays” in the year, Tsoi starred in the film “Yy-Kha” directed by Rashid Nugmanov, a short, non-wiper picture of the Leningrad Rock and his “Fathers”. The frame from the film “The End of the holidays” in the year the musician took part in the filming of the cult painting “Assa” by the director Sergei Solovyov, in which a brilliant cast was involved: Stanislav Govorukhin, Tatyana Drubich, Sergey Bugaev “Africa”, Alexander Bashirov, Alexander Domogarov, etc.

And although the role of Victor in this film was not great and only one of his dogs were sounded "Changes! The top of the acting career of Tsoi can be considered the main role in the full-length feature film by Rashid Nugmanov “Igomov” with the participation of Peter Mamonov-the film was shot in Alma-Ata, and for the sake of filming the Kino group had to be interrupted for a while.

And this victim was not in vain: the film received several prizes at prestigious film festivals, became one of the rental leaders, and Viktor Tsoi was recognized as the best actor of the year according to the results of a survey of the magazine “Soviet screen”. Viktor Tsoi in the film “Igla” The personal life of Viktor Tsoi Viktor Tsoi was calm in character, but a rather closed detached personality.

According to the memoirs of Alexander Titov, "he was an absolutely discreet person who did not know how to serve, even shy in the company." At that time, Maryana was far from musical life. She worked in the circus of the head of the staging part and dreamed of entering the Mukhinsk School and getting an art education. Tsoi met with her future wife in the year she had several familiar musicians, whose work she was cool, but Victor Tsoi was a happy exception.Later, in her story, “The Stage Point”, Marianne wrote: “The feeling that I experienced when I heard it for the first time, you can rather be called amazement, and not enthusiastically, the girl fell in love with Victor and seriously carried away by his music, soon threw the circus and became the administrator of the“ Kino ”group, a reliable assistant and associate of the musicians.

Viktor Tsoi and his son Alexander in the year, the couple dispersed, but officially the divorce was not framed. The last period of his life, Victor lived in Moscow with a translator and film expert Natalya Razlogova, who, after his death, again married and left for the United States. Natalia was not only Victor’s last love, but also his good and faithful friend. The film critic and esthete, she seriously influenced the external image of Tsoi: according to Yuri Aisenshpis, "he turned from hungry and evil into imposing and mysterious." Viktor Tsoi and Natalya Razlogova in order to have an official place of work, as required in the USSR, and avoid criminal prosecution for “parasitism”, Viktor Tsoi, like many other people associated with informal art, had to look for some not too burdensome position.

Alexander, the son of Viktor Tsoi, now, for example, in the summer of the year, Victor was a cleaner in a bathhouse on Veterans Avenue, where he needed to wash the room, pouring water out of the Brandspot. The work took only one hour a day, but this hour was in the evening, when the musical life was in full swing - and it was inconvenient. Victor Tsoi: Last summer before his death, Jurmala in the fall of the same year, Sergei Firsov invited Tsoi to work as a stoker in the Kamchatka boiler room, where they both spent up to a year.

Other well -known musicians worked in this famous boiler room at different times: Alexander Bashlachev, Svyatoslav Zaderiy, Andrei Mashnin, etc. There were also “parties” and unofficial concerts. It was only necessary from time to time to throw coal into the furnace, and otherwise the fireman could feel, according to Tsoi himself, "completely free." Now in this boiler room a club-museum of Victor Tsoi is arranged in this boiler room.

This happened on the Sloka -Talsi highway near the Kestervertia village in Latvia, not far from the cottage where he and Kasparyan worked on the album. According to the official version, Victor fell asleep at the wheel, and his dark blue Moskvich flew into the oncoming lane and ran into the Ikarus brand bus. Viktor Tsoi’s car took place on August 19 in Leningrad, among the many thousands of fans.

The death of Victor Tsoi caused a real shock and a wave of suicide among the fans of the Kino. The grave of Victor Tsoi in the theological cemetery of his songs remain popular and in demand to this day, and he will forever remain one of the “pillars” of Russian rock. In June, the premiere of the feature film by Kirill Serebrennikov “Summer” about the youth of Tsoi, while in August, was also frozen, were frozen due to the case of the steaming of Serebrennikov budget funds.

It was this that Viktor Tsoi was remembered by millions of Viktor Tsoi installed several monuments: on the Sloka-Talsi highway at the place of his death, at the Railway Station in the city of Okulovka, the Novgorod region, this monument was on Nevsky Avenue in the courtyard near the Aurora cinema, and then inside the cinema itself, the monument at the Kamchatka Boel and the monument in the cinema.

Barnaule. A new monument in Karaganda was erected in the year. The wall of Viktor Tsoi on Arbat is expected to install monuments in Vilnius, St. Petersburg and Moscow-however, in the capital in Krivoarbatsky Lane there is a “spontaneous” memorial wall with photographs of Tsoi, numerous inscriptions “Tsoi” and quotes from his songs. Similar walls exist in the city of Dnieper earlier - Dnepropetrovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as in Minsk and Mogilev.

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