Happy Birthday Last Hero !!!

Viktor Tsoi was born in the hospital of the Moscow district of Leningrad (m. Victory Park Street Kuznetsovskaya, d. 25) in the family physical education teacher Valentina Guseva and engineer Robert Maksimovic Korean origin Tsoi. The only child in the family. After the birth of the child was brought to Moscow avenue house № 193.



From 1974 to 1977 he attended Art School, where there was a group of "Ward number 6", headed by Maxim Pashkov. After exclusion of the poor performance of the Art School named after V. Serov entered the SGPTU-61 on a specialty "woodcarver." In his youth he was a fan of Mikhail Boyarsky and Vladimir Vysotsky, later Bruce Lee, whose image began to imitate. Fond of martial arts and often fought "in Chinese," Yuri Kasparyanom professionally carved wood netsuke figurines.



In the late 1970s - early 1980s began close communication between Alexey Rybin from amateur group "Pilgrims" and Viktor Tsoi, plays bass guitar in a band "Ward number 6", they both went to visit Mike Naumenko ("Zoo ") or to Andrey Panov (pigs), on whose apartment rehearsed punk band" Automatic satisfactory ».

And there is a first appartment Viktor Tsoi. Having acquired some fame, Viktor Tsoi and Alexei Rybin in the "Automatic satisfactory" went to Moscow and played punk rock metal on the appartment Artemy Troitsky. During one of these trips Viktor Tsoi, singing with a guitar company in the train, saw Boris Grebenshikov. He suggested Victor assistance and support not only from their side, but also on the part of Andrew Tropillo Sergey Kuryokhin and others.



Summer of 1981, Viktor Tsoi, Aleksei Rybin and Oleg Valinsky founded the group "Garin and hyperboloids", which in the autumn was admitted to the Leningrad rock club. Valinsky soon drafted into the army, and the group changed its name to "Cinema", began recording their first album. "Cinema" under the leadership of Boris Grebenshikov recorded at the studio in the House Tropillo Andrew Young Technology, took part in recording all musicians "Aquarium". Soon the "Cinema" already performed his first electric concert at the festival rock club.



In the summer of 1984 in the studio "Antrop" Andrew Tropillo begins recording the album "Head of Kamchatka", which, apart from Victor, put his arm BG and Sergey Kurёhin.Vesnoy 1985 "Movie" earned another title of laureate, and entered the studio to A. Tropillo write "Night", the recording process was delayed due to the desire to create new music with new playing techniques. The album does not work, Victor threw "Night" and unfinished studio Alexei Cherry took up writing, "This is not love," which turned out just a week with a little. By the fall, "This is not love" has been kept and well dispersed throughout the country, and in January 1986 came "Night", among which were well-known songs "Mother Anarchy" and "saw the night." In parallel with the release of records is growing popularity of Viktor Tsoi, and in February at the 4th festival rock club "Cinema" received a diploma for the best teksty.Vesna 1987 rich concert events: the premiere of "Aces" in DC MELZ, recently participated in the festival Rock Club where the "Cinema" won the prize "for the creative age».

At the port-studio «Yamaha MT44» «Cinema" begin recording the album "Blood". The fall of 1987, Victor flies to Rashid Nugmanov to Alma-Ata to the shooting of his latest film "Igla", in connection with the "Cinema" finalized "Blood" and stopped at the time of concerts. In 1988 comes the "Igla" and "Blood", which spawned "moviegoers" .Nachinayutsya triumphal tour of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - "Cinema" collect notices at all concerts.



In early 1989, a group of "Cinema" goes abroad for the first time in France, where he recorded and released the album "The Last Hero". Summer Victor Yuri Kasparyanom travel to the US. Meanwhile, the "Igla" comes in second place at the box office of Soviet films and the film festival "Golden Duke" in Odessa Viktor Tsoi recognize the best actor of the USSR.



June 24, 1990 took place the last concert of "Cinema" in Moscow at the Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena. At this concert, the first time since the Moscow Olympics-80 was lit the Olympic flame in the bowl. After that, Choi with Kasparyanom retired to a country house near Jurmala, where the acoustic guitar began recording material for a new album. This album, finish and mixed vocal group "Cinema" after the death of Tsoi, was released in December 1990 and received a symbolic name "Black Album", with the appropriate cover design.

Death in a car crash

August 15, 1990 at 12 o'clock 28 minutes Viktor Tsoi was killed in a car crash. The accident occurred on the 35 kilometer route "Sloka - Tulsa" under Tukums in Latvia, a few dozen kilometers from Riga. According to the most plausible official version, Choi fell asleep at the wheel, and then its "Moskvich-2141" in light gray flew into the opposite lane and collided with the bus "Ikarus-250».

Clash of the car "Moskvich-2141" in light gray with a regular bus "Ikarus-250" took place in 12:00. 28 min. August 15, 1990 at 35 km of Sloka - Tulsa. The car was moving on the highway at a speed of at least 130 km / h, the driver Victor R. Choi lost control. Death VR Tsoi was instantaneous, the bus driver was not injured. ... B. Choi was absolutely sober eve of destruction. Anyway, it is tried over the last 48 hours prior to death. Analysis of brain cells suggests that he fell asleep at the wheel, probably from pereutomleniya- of police protocol.

August 19 Viktor Tsoi was buried at the Theological cemetery in Leningrad.





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