For many, he was remembered as the leader of the cult rock band Kino. But at the same time, Victor was an ordinary guy who worked as a fireman in a St. Petersburg boiler room. It was this simplicity and genuine sincerity of his that were main reason love for this person.

natural talent

Little Vitya.

While still young, Viktor Tsoi played in a group called Ward No. 6. In addition, from early childhood showed a tendency to draw. Therefore, from the fourth grade, his parents sent him to an art school, where he studied until 1977. So gradually Victor learned to draw and understand art.

Viktor Tsoi in the dressing room.

"Night, day - Too lazy to sleep - There is smoke - To hell with it"

On the famous "Kamchatka" Tsoi became a high-class stoker, although he was forced to get a job there in order not to fall under the article "parasitism". Many friends say that he was not such a workaholic. From the memoirs of the same Rybin: “Vitka was a terrible lazy person! Like all of us. Just writing songs wasn't hard for him. He did it in between. In general, Tsoi's favorite pastime was lying on the couch. I remember, I come, and he, with his legs up, with Belomor in his teeth, reads a book.

Cinema

Viktor Tsoi and Kino.

“I was waiting for this time, and now this time has come, those who were silent have ceased to be silent”

In early 1984, Tsoi and the newly minted guitarist Yuri Kasparyan began recording a real second album. The popularity of “Kino” has been constantly growing over the years, if at first the musicians played only on apartment houses and were subjected to harsh criticism from both the official and underground press, then at the end of the decade their records were already distributed in millions of copies, and entire stadiums of fans gathered for concerts. The group gave rise to the phenomenon of "movie mania".

Victor and Marianna Tsoi, photo from the family archive.

"Death is worth living, but love is worth the wait..."

Of all the girls of Viktor Tsoi, his wife, Marianna Tsoi, had the greatest influence on him. It was she who supported no one in every possible way. famous group"Cinema". According to the recollections of the participants, she provided them with a unique concert wardrobe, which consisted of decommissioned circus costumes. "We were as poor as church rats," she recalled. “We rented a room in a communal apartment, ate what God would send. Even a decent wedding could not play. Instead of a wedding dress, I put on a white jacket and a light striped skirt. Despite the fact that Tsoi soon fell in love with the translator Natalya Razlogova, they decided not to officially divorce and continued to communicate.

Footage from the filming of the film "The Needle", 1988

“Instead of heat - green glass, instead of fire - smoke. A day is snatched from the calendar grid. The red sun burns to the ground"

In addition to musical creativity, Viktor Tsoi was also known for his work in cinema. He starred in the films "Ya xha!", "End of Vacation", "Rock" and "Assa". In Rashid Nugmanov's film The Needle, Victor played the lead role of Moreau. By the way, after the Needle, Tsoi was offered to play Mowgli in the musical, but he did not like this idea. “I'm not an actor. And to do it professionally, to portray someone, to transform into other people, somehow I don’t get high at all. Not interested. Therefore, I would be happy to act in films if I were given the right not to act at all, but to express myself, ”he said.

Cinema in the West

Victor, Joanna and Yuri during a trip to the USA, 1989.

“I believe that a person lives on a planet, not in a state”

Having gained popularity, the group began to receive invitations from various socialist republics and even from some far-abroad countries. As part of the "Next Stop" movement, a charity concert was held in Denmark, at the largest French rock festival in Bourges, as well as in the USA.

Full return

Footage from the concerts of the Kino group.

“Sing your songs, drink your wines, Hero. You again see a dream that everything is ahead.

The people who surrounded the Kino group on tour note their phenomenal return. Leaving backstage after the concert, Tsoi almost always fell down in exhaustion and lay motionless on the floor for ten minutes. He came to his senses, because on stage he always gave all the best.

The last concert of Viktor Tsoi, 1990.

“Music should cover everything: it should, when necessary, make you laugh, when necessary, amuse, and when necessary, make you think. Music should not only call for going to smash the Winter Palace. She must be listened to."

Death of Viktor Tsoi

Viktor Tsoi shortly before his death, Jurmala, 1990.

"If there is a flock - there is a shepherd, if there is a body - there must be a spirit"

In June 1990, having finished a difficult touring season, the musicians wanted to record a new album, but before that they decided to take a short vacation and went on vacation. The plans were not destined to be fully realized, since on August 15, returning from fishing, Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident on the 35th kilometer of the old Sloka-Talsi highway. According to the most plausible official version, Tsoi fell asleep at the wheel, after which his light gray Moskvich-2141 flew into the oncoming lane and collided with an Ikarus bus.

Viktor Tsoi at the Kantemirovskaya metro station.

"I would like to stay with you, just stay with you, but a star high in the sky is calling me to go"

Being one of the brightest Soviet bands of the second half of the 1980s, Kino had a great influence on the formation of many young bands, and, to a certain extent, continues to influence to this day. The memory of Viktor Tsoi is alive in his poems, music, films.

In Krivoarbatsky Lane (Moscow), a “wall of Tsoi” appeared, which the group’s fans covered with inscriptions “Kino”, “Tsoi is alive”, quotes from songs and declarations of love to the musician. It is still customary for fans of Tsoi's work to leave a broken, lighted cigarette in a special ashtray near the Wall.

  1. "Head of Kamchatka"

In actor Tsoi, from childhood he was fond of music and drawing, at a very young age he already played the bass guitar in the rock group Chamber No. 6. Musician, songwriter, actor and artist - he became a real legend of the 1980s. His songs were wildly popular, the film "The Needle" with the participation of Tsoi became one of the leaders in the box office, and young people throughout the Soviet Union imitated the manners of the famous musician and even tried to look like him.

Wood carver and frontman of the Kino group

Viktor Tsoi was born in Leningrad in June 1962. His mother was a physical education teacher and his father was an engineer. Tsoi's talents appeared already in kindergarten: he drew well and, besides, he could easily repeat any melody, even the most complex, tapping the beat with his palm. Educators advised to send the boy to an art or music school. But Tsoi began to study drawing only at the age of 12. Prior to that, he changed several schools: every time his mother changed jobs, the boy moved to a new educational institution with her. In the 1970s, Tsoi first took part in a rock project - the group Chamber No. 6 - where he played the bass guitar.

Viktor Tsoi. Photo: 24smi.org

Viktor Tsoi with his family. Photo: isrageo.com

Viktor Tsoi (left) at the art school. Photo: kinomannia.ru

Four years later, Tsoi entered the Serov Art School, but he was soon expelled for poor performance. Tsoi went to an evening school, got a job at a factory, and later studied at a vocational school with a degree in woodcarving. From his studies, he had a lifelong habit of carving wooden Japanese netsuke figures. It was no coincidence that Viktor Tsoi chose the profession: he was still fond of fine arts. However, like music. The circle of his contacts in the 1970s and 80s was iconic figures for the Leningrad underground: Alexei Rybin from the Pilgrims group, Andrei Panov from Automatic Satisfiers, Mike Naumenko from the Zoo collective and Boris Grebenshchikov.

Viktor Tsoi himself participated in Moscow rock apartment houses: at different times he played in several groups. And in the summer of 1981, Tsoi first performed on stage in the Leningrad cafe "Tryum". It is believed that after these concerts, the Garin and Hyperboloids group was formed, its name arose by analogy with Alexei Tolstoy's novel The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin. The team included Viktor Tsoi, Alexey Rybin and Oleg Valinsky. However, soon Valinsky was drafted into the army, and the composition changed its name: this is how the Kino group appeared.

"Head of Kamchatka"

The group released their first album in 1982. It was recorded for a month and a half. They worked at different times of the day: the musicians now and then had to skip work and study. The first disc "Kino" was called "45" - exactly this, 45 minutes, was the total duration of all the songs on the album. Boris Grebenshchikov helped with the recording: members of the Aquarium group acted as session musicians. And a year later, the musicians of two Soviet rock bands performed together on stage - in a big joint concert.

Viktor Tsoi. Photo: vsyoo.com

Cinema group. Photo: m.ncrim.ru

At this time, the guitarist changed in the Kino group. Alexey Rybin left the team after a quarrel with Tsoi, and Yuri Kasparyan was taken in his place. Throughout the summer of 1983, the group rehearsed: the musicians were preparing for the Leningrad Rock Festival. After the performance, Tsoi's song "I declare my house a nuclear-free zone" was recognized as the best, and the group itself became a laureate of the festival. The songs of the festival program were later released as a separate album: it was called "Head of Kamchatka".

In 1984, Viktor Tsoi married Marianna Rodovanskaya - they met at the time when the musicians of the Kino group were recording their first album. Legends of the Leningrad Rock Club walked at their wedding with Tsoi: Boris Grebenshchikov and Alexander Titov, Georgy Guryanov and Yuri Kasparyan. A year later, Victor and Marianna had a son, Alexander.

Viktor Tsoi with his son Alexander. Photo: lovlya-ryby.ru

Viktor Tsoi with his wife Marianna and son Alexander. Photo: lovlya-ryby.ru

At the 1985 rock festival, the Kino group again performed in triumph. Inspired by the success, Tsoi, together with the musicians, began to record the next disc. Soon the album "This is not love" appeared, which was sold throughout the Soviet Union. The name of Viktor Tsoi became known to young people. The musician finished work on the album "Night" and performed with new songs at the joint festival of the Leningrad Rock Club and the Moscow Rock Laboratory. At this time Choi, already famous performer, worked in a bathhouse on Veteranov Avenue. And later he got a job as a coal miner in a boiler room, now there is a club-museum “Boiler Room. Kamchatka.

Viktor Tsoi - actor, artist and rock legend

Viktor Tsoi not only wrote and sang songs, but also acted in films. His film debut was the diploma work of director Alexei Uchitel - the documentary "Rock". Oleg Garkusha, Boris Grebenshchikov, Anton Adasinsky, the Aquarium, AVIA, Auktsion, DDT, Kino groups also starred in it. Later, Tsoi was invited to shoot more and more often. He starred in the films "Yah ha!" Rashida Nugmanov, "Assa" by Sergei Solovyov. In Nugmanov's film "The Needle", the musician played the main role - Moreau. During the year, the film was watched by more than 14 million Soviet viewers, and the Soviet Screen magazine recognized Viktor Tsoi as the best actor of 1989.

“Well, sometimes it’s interesting to portray, say, a boor. I would never have acted like this in my life. But it's still not far from real character, the film was made without any costumes and hairstyles. As I walked down the street, I entered the frame. We had, of course, the initial literary script, then Rashid wrote a directorial, with significant changes. In the end, almost nothing remained of the original.

Viktor Tsoi on the filming of the film "The Needle". From an interview with the newspaper "Young Leninist"

In parallel with music and filming, Viktor Tsoi continued to draw. He was part of the "New Artists" group, which turned to the heritage of the avant-garde of the 1920s and foreign projects - pop art, comics, graffiti by American artists. This also affected the works of Viktor Tsoi - bright, expressive, with deliberately simplified forms. He did not have his own workshop, and he painted where he could and on what he could. Often - on pieces of paper, cardboard and even polyethylene. Viktor Tsoi participated in exhibitions of his creative association and even in the New York exhibition of Leningrad artists - a total of 10 of his paintings went to America.

A joint album of several Soviet rock bands "Red Wave" was released in the USA - it contained songs from "Aquarium" and "Alice", the bands "Strange Games" and "Kino". The record was released by the American singer Joanna Stingray, who met Tsoi during a trip to Leningrad. In the spring of 1989, the album "A Star Called the Sun" was released - the only disc that the musicians of the Kino group recorded in a professional studio.

In 1988-1990, Tsoi gave dozens of concerts throughout the country. He toured in Denmark, performed at the largest rock festival in France in Bourges and at the Soviet-Italian rock festival Back In The USSR in Melpignano.

On August 15, 1990, the Muscovite, driven by Viktor Tsoi, crashed into a bus at high speed. It happened on the Sloka-Talsi highway in Latvia. Later it was found that the musician fell asleep at the wheel. He was buried at the Bogoslovsky cemetery in Leningrad. The last Kino disc called Black Album was released after the death of the band's frontman. On August 15, fans of the rock band celebrate Viktor Tsoi's memorial day.

Tsoi Viktor Robertovich - legendary Soviet rock musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter, founder and soloist cult group"Cinema". In addition, Viktor Tsoi became famous for his work in cinema, playing in the famous films of the perestroika era Assa and Igla.

Family and childhood

Viktor Tsoi was born on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad. His parents were physical education teacher Valentina Vasilievna and engineer Robert Maksimovich. Victor owes his Korean surname and appearance to his grandfather on his father's side, a Korean who came to the Northern Capital from Kazakhstan. Victor was the only child in the family.


From early childhood, he read a lot, 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. The father left the family, but a year later the former spouses got back together. But Victor always had a warmer relationship with his mother. “I completely trusted him ... I myself was interested in how talented people. Most importantly, I wanted to help Vita open up, develop his abilities, ”she later wrote.


Education

In parallel with the secondary school in 1974-1977, Victor went to the "artist's school". 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 to, he draws, and he draws wonderfully, but if he doesn’t want to, you won’t force him.”


After graduating from the eighth grade in 1978, Victor entered the art school named after V. Serov. Devoting more and more time to music and not wanting to draw propaganda posters and generally do things that do not bring moral satisfaction, Victor abandoned his studies and was expelled from the school for poor progress.


Then, in 1979, the young man entered SGPTU-61 and received the profession of a woodcarver. In those 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 practice karate and imitate his idol.

The beginning of creative activity

For the first time, Victor began playing in a group as a 13-year-old schoolboy - it was the Chamber No. 6 team, led by his fellow artist Maxim Pashkov. According to Pashkov's memoirs, Victor was very fond of music, but at first he did not know how to play the guitar at all. Having chipped in together, the guys bought him a bass guitar in a thrift store: they thought that it would be easier to learn to play it, because there were “only four strings”. The third member of the group pounded the pioneer drum, and together they performed hard rock in the style of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. The guys grew up and progressed very quickly in the game.


In the late 1970s, Victor met Alexei Rybin, who played in the amateur group "Pilgrims". They began to communicate a lot and began to play together with Mike Naumenko ("Zoo") and Andrey Panov, known by the nickname Pig. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, Pig was considered "the main punk of Leningrad", and a new punk group "Automatic Satisfiers" began to rehearse in his apartment, which included Viktor Tsoi and Alexei Rybin. Thanks to numerous apartment owners, the group gained fame outside of Leningrad and began to regularly travel to Moscow to Artemy Troitsky's apartments.


Sometimes I had to get to Moscow by “dogs” - several electric trains with transfers, and during one of these trips Tsoi singing in the car was noticed by Boris Grebenshchikov, the leader of the rock movement of that time. He later wrote about this meeting: “When you hear the right and right song, there is always such a shudder of the discoverer who found a precious stone or amphora of God knows what century - I had the same thing then.” Grebenshchikov promised the young musician his support, and later introduced him to Andrey Tropillo, Sergey Kuryokhin and other famous people.


In the summer of 1981, Viktor Tsoi, Alexey Rybin and Oleg Valinsky organized new group under the name "Garin and Hyperboloids", and in the autumn 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 "Kino".

"Garin and Hyperboloids" - My mood

The formation of the Kino group

Having acquired a new name, the group immediately began to work on recording the first album. The patronage of BG also played an important role in this matter: it was he who brought Victor and his team to Andrey Tropillo's studio in the House young technician, and also "shared" the missing musicians from his Aquarium group.

The album was completed in the summer of 1982. 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 their first electric concert at the festival of the Leningrad rock club, and the whole concert was accompanied by a drum machine, since Kino did not yet have its own drummer.


In the autumn of the same year, the group recorded several songs with the Zoo's drummer at Andrey Kuskov's studio, including the songs "Spring" and "The Last Hero", but for some unknown reason this recording was rejected by Tsoi and did not receive distribution.

Cinema - The Last Hero (1990, live at the Olympic)

On February 19, 1983, a big joint concert of the groups "Kino" and "Aquarium" was given, at which the songs "Electric Train", "Aluminum Cucumbers" and "Trolleybus" were performed. At the same time, Yuri Kasparyan entered the main line-up of the group, and shortly after that, Alexei Rybin left the group.


After rehearsals with a new guitarist, the album "46" was recorded, which was planned as a demo recording of the future album "Head of Kamchatka", but slowly began to spread among the listeners as an independent album. Unfortunately, his musical activity had to be interrupted for a short time: in 1983, conscription into the army "hung" over Victor, and in order to avoid it, the singer feigned a suicide attempt and went to a psychiatric hospital on Pryazhka for a month and a half for examination.


After being discharged, Tsoi wrote the song "Tranquilizer", and in the spring of 1984 the Kino group performed at the second rock club festival, where they were awarded the title of laureate. The festival opened with the composition "I declare my home a nuclear-free zone", which was recognized as the best anti-war song. Then in 1984, Georgy Guryanov ("Gustav") joined the group as a drummer, backing vocalist and arranger.


The heyday of a musical career

In the summer of 1984, the Kino group began recording the album Head of Kamchatka at Andrei Tropillo's Antrop studio, and again Boris Grebenshchikov came to the rescue, joined by Sergey Kuryokhin. Soon the final, "golden" line-up of the group was formed: Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparyan, Georgy Guryanov and a new member - bass player Igor Tikhomirov.


In 1985, in the same Antrop studio, the group began working on the Night album, but things progressed slowly: the musicians wanted to find a new sound and playing techniques. Leaving work on this album for a while, Viktor Tsoi moved to the studio of Alexei Vishnya and quickly, in a little over a week, recorded the album “This is not love”. "Night" came out a little later, in January 1986, and included the famous songs "Saw the Night" and "Mama Anarchy". At the suggestion of Andrey Tropillo, the fans affectionately called this album "gateway music" - music "played by punks".

Life is like a movie. Documentary film about Viktor Tsoi

In the same 1986, work began on the album "Blood Type". An American friend of the musicians, well-known rock enthusiast Joanna Stingray brought a home four-channel portable studio "Yamaha MT 44" to Leningrad, and the musicians firmly settled in Gustav's house. Here the whole group, according to Artemy Troitsky, "hung out, rehearsed, painted pictures and - from time to time - listened to and recorded new songs."


In 1987, the album "Blood Type" was released, and wide recognition and real fame fell upon the group. On the wave of popularity, having played the famous joint concert with "Aquarium" and "Alisa" in the recreation center of MIIT in Moscow, the musicians of "Kino" went on a triumphant tour of the cities of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. At the end of 1988, the album "A Star by the Name of the Sun" was recorded, and in 1989 the group acquired a new producer, Yuri Aizenshpis.


“I liked his work, I liked his sincerity, his energy, and from the very first minutes of communication I liked the author himself: calm, thorough, benevolent,” Aizenshpis recalled. The new producer began to organize numerous performances and filming on television: the popularity of "Kino" quickly gained an all-Union scale, a youth "film mania" began.


The album "The Last Hero" was recorded in 1989 already in France. On June 24, 1990, the last concert of Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group took place - at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, where the Olympic flame was lit for the first time after the Olympics-80 in honor of this event. After that, Tsoi and Kasparyan closed themselves from everyone at a dacha near Jurmala and began to work on a new, final album. It was released after the death of Viktor Tsoi and received the unofficial name "Black Album".

Film work

The debut work of Viktor Tsoi in the cinema was the role in the graduation film by Sergei Lysenko "The End of Vacation", filmed in 1986. 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 "The End of the Vacation" in 1986, Tsoi starred in the film "Yya-Kha" directed by Rashid Nugmanov, a short non-fiction film about Leningrad rock and its "fathers".


In 1987, the musician took part in the filming iconic painting"Assa" directed by Sergei Solovyov, in which a brilliant cast was involved: Stanislav Govorukhin, Tatyana Drubich, Sergey Bugaev ("Africa"), Alexander Bashirov, Alexander Domogarov and others. And although the role of Victor in this film was not great and sounded only one of his songs (“Changes!”), Many people recognized and fell in love with him precisely after this performance, and the song “Changes!” became the unofficial anthem of Perestroika.

Fragments of films with Viktor Tsoi

The pinnacle of Tsoi's acting career can be considered the main role in Rashid Nugmanov's full-length feature film "The Needle" with the participation of Pyotr Mamonov - the film was shot in Alma-Ata, and for the sake of filming, the Kino group had to temporarily interrupt their concert activities. And this sacrifice was not in vain: the film received several prizes at prestigious film festivals, became one of the leaders in the box office, and Viktor Tsoi was recognized as the best actor in 1989 according to a poll by the Soviet Screen magazine.


Personal life of Viktor Tsoi

Viktor Tsoi was calm in character, but rather reserved and aloof. According to the memoirs of Alexander Titov, "he was an absolutely discreet person, unable to present himself, even shy in the company."

On March 5, 1982, while visiting mutual friends, 19-year-old Tsoi met Maryana Igorevna Rodovanskaya, who turned 23 that day. At that time, Maryana was far from musical life. She worked in the circus as the head of the production department and dreamed of entering the Mukhinskoye school and getting an art education.


She had several familiar musicians, to whose work she was cool, but Viktor Tsoi was a happy exception. Later, in her story “Reference Point”, Marianna wrote: “The feeling that I experienced when I heard it for the first time can be called amazement rather than delight ... I did not expect such agility from the nineteen-year-old Tsoi!”. The girl fell in love with Victor and was seriously carried away by his music, soon left the circus and became the administrator of the Kino group, a reliable assistant and ally of the musicians.


In February 1984, Maryana and Victor got married. Almost all famous rock performers of that time walked at their wedding: Boris Grebenshchikov, Mike Naumenko, Alexander Titov, Yuri Kasparyan, Georgy Guryanov ("Gustav") and many others. “A hundred people crowded into our unfortunate apartment,” Maryana recalled. On August 5, 1985, the only child of Viktor Tsoi, son Alexander, was born.


In 1987, the couple separated, but the divorce was not formalized. Last period Viktor spent his life in Moscow with Natalia Razlogova, a translator and film critic, who, after his death, remarried and left for the United States. Natalia was not only last love Victor, but also his good and faithful friend. A film critic and esthete, she also seriously influenced Tsoi's external image: according to Yuri Aizenshpis, "he turned from hungry and angry into imposing and mysterious."


In order to have an official place of work, as was required in the USSR, and to avoid criminal prosecution for "parasitism", Viktor Tsoi, like many other people associated with informal art, had to look for some not too burdensome position.


For example, in the summer of 1986, Viktor was a cleaner in a bathhouse on Veteranov Avenue, where he had to wash the room, dousing it with water from a hose. The work took only one hour a day, but this hour fell in the evening, when music life was in full swing - and it was uncomfortable.


In the autumn of the same year, Sergei Firsov invited Tsoi to work as a fireman in the Kamchatka boiler room, where they both spent time until 1988. Other well-known musicians worked in this famous boiler room at different times: Alexander Bashlachev, Svyatoslav Zaderiy, Andrey Mashnin, etc. “Hangouts” and unofficial concerts were also held here. It was only necessary from time to time to throw coal into the furnace, and otherwise the stoker could feel, in the words of Tsoi himself, "completely free." Now the club-museum of Viktor Tsoi is arranged in this boiler room.


Death of Viktor Tsoi

Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident on August 15, 1990 at 12:28. This happened on the Sloka-Talsi highway near the village of Kesterciems in Latvia, not far from the dacha 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 collided with an Ikarus bus.


The funeral took place on August 19 in Leningrad, among thousands of fans. The death of Viktor Tsoi caused a real shock and a wave of suicides among Kino fans.


His songs remain popular and in demand to this day, and he will forever remain one of the "pillars" of Russian rock. After the death of the musician, about a dozen films were released using previously filmed materials about Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group, the most famous of which were Alexei Uchitel's The Last Hero (1992) and Tsoi - Kino by Natalia Razlogova and Evgeny Lisovsky ( 2012). In June 2018, the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov's feature film "Summer" about Tsoi's youth also took place (at the same time, in August 2017, the shooting was frozen due to the case of Serebrennikov's embezzlement of budget funds).


Several monuments were erected to Viktor Tsoi: on the Sloka-Talsi highway at the place of his death, near the railway station in the city of Okulovka, Novgorod Region (previously this monument stood on Nevsky Prospekt in the courtyard of the Avrora cinema, and then inside the cinema itself), a monument -bas-relief at the boiler house "Kamchatka" and a monument in Barnaul. In 2017, a new monument was erected in Karaganda.


Monuments are expected to be erected 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 is alive” and quotes from his songs. Similar walls exist in the city of Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk) in the Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as in Minsk and Mogilev.

In honor of Viktor Tsoi, streets are named in four settlements of Russia, as well as two squares - in St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk. In addition, asteroid No. 2740 is named after him.

The life of Viktor Tsoi fit in the time period: from June 21, 1962 to August 15, 1990. The famous rock singer, creator of the Kino group was born in Leningrad, in the family of an engineer of Korean origin Robert Tsoi and a physical education teacher Valentina. The musician was the only child in the family.

In 1981, Viktor Tsoi, Alexey Rybin and Oleg Valinsky created the Garin and Hyperboloids group. Later this group was renamed into "Kino". The group recorded the first album under the strict guidance of Boris Grebenshchikov, and all the musicians of the Aquarium group took part in its recording.

In 1988, the musicians recorded the album "A Star Called the Sun". And in 1989, the musicians went to France, where they recorded their last album, "The Last Hero".

In total, there are 8 albums in the discography of Tsoi and the Kino group, with such famous songs as: “The Last Hero”, “Aluminum Cucumbers”, “Mama Anarchy”, “Saw the Night”, “Blood Type”, “A Star named Sun” and many others.

Victor is also known as a film actor - he starred in several films. The popularity of the group increased to unprecedented heights after the release of the album "Blood Type" and the film "Needle". The next album of the Kino group, A Star Called the Sun, was recognized by critics as brilliant.

In 1989, at the Golden Duke film festival in Odessa, Viktor Tsoi was recognized as the best actor.

In his youth, Viktor Tsoi was a fan of Mikhail Boyarsky and Vladimir Vysotsky, later Bruce Lee, whose image he began to imitate and became interested in martial arts.

In June 1990, the last concert of "Kino" was held. After that, Tsoi and Kasparyan retired to a dacha near Jurmala, where they began to record material for a new album. This album, mixed by the musicians of the Kino group after the death of Tsoi, was released in December 1990 and was called the Black Album.

August 15, 1990 Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident. The accident occurred near Tukums in Latvia, a few dozen kilometers from Riga. According to the most plausible official version, Tsoi fell asleep at the wheel, after which his dark blue Moskvich-2141 flew into the oncoming lane and collided with the Ikarus-250 bus.

The death of Viktor Tsoi was a shock to fans. Among many admirers of the musician there is a phrase: “Tsoi is not dead. He just went out for a smoke."

Early death contributed to the birth of myths. The phrase "Choi is alive!" is not portable at all. Among the fans of the singer there is an opinion that he did not die then in a car accident. They even demanded to open the grave and make sure that it was not empty, because they buried the musician in a closed coffin, and few saw him dead.

Tsoi has been gone for 27 years, but until now his music continues to influence the development of Russian-language rock. True, modern musicians often say that it was death that gave Tsoi immortality.

Every year, on June 21, admirers of the cinema group gather near the wall in Almaty to celebrate the birthday of their ever-living idol. The wall of Viktor Tsoi flaunts inside the arch of the house on the Arbat. The legendary singer is depicted with a cup of tea, and next to it there is an inscription from the text of the song of the Kino and Viktor Tsoi group - Anthill: once".

Viktor Tsoi has a lot in common with Almaty. It was here that the famous song "A Star Called the Sun" was written.

Tsoi Viktor Robertovich is a talented musician, an interesting personality and founder legendary band"Cinema". How did a simple guy with an Asian appearance manage to achieve all-Union glory? When is Tsoi's birthday celebrated? The answers to these and other questions are contained in the article.

Biography

The famous performer was born on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Victor's mother, Valentina Vasilievna, taught physical education at school. Father, Robert Maksimovich, worked as an engineer.

Our hero from early years showed his Creative skills. Little Vitya loved to draw and sculpt different figures from plasticine. And he began to sing and play the guitar in the 5th grade.

Parents sent their son to art school. The teachers praised the boy for his diligence and diligence. But Vitya himself soon realized that he was no longer interested in drawing.

Creation

At the age of 12, our hero became a member of the rock group "Ward No. 6". The founder and ideal inspirer of the team was his school friend - Maxim Pashkov.

At the age of 15, Victor entered the art school. Serov. But he didn't make a good student. Choi devoted almost all his time to music. He didn't show up for class. As a result, a year later the guy was expelled from the school for poor performance. Vitya understood that you would not be fed up with music alone. Fame and popular recognition still needs to be earned. He entered one of the St. Petersburg schools, where he mastered the specialty "woodcarver".

Finding yourself

At some point, Viktor Tsoi realized that he had outgrown the boy group "Ward No. 6". He and another member of the team, Alexei Rybin, went to free swimming. Young people visited apartment houses and simply loitered around the St. Petersburg gateways.

In 1981, Tsoi Viktor Robertovich suggested to his friends - Alexei Rybin and Oleg Valinsky - to create a rock band called Garin and the Hyperboloids. The guys agreed. A year later, the band released their first album "45". The songs were liked by many listeners. But the name of the group was poorly remembered and pronounced. Then the guys decided to change it. As a result, the team became known as "Kino". This group has been talked about. The guys began to receive offers to perform at apartment houses and concert venues Leningrad.

Soon, Moscow listeners learned about the new rock group. The organizers managed to agree on a big concert in the capital. The people sang along with Victor and did not want to let him off the stage. It was a real success. He and his colleagues were waiting for a long tour across the country. And fans of the Kino group began to celebrate Tsoi's birthday as one of the public holidays.

In 1983, our hero, in between performances, managed to visit a mental hospital. However, little is known about this episode of his life. Staying in such an institution had no effect on musical career Tsoi. After all, he left the walls of the mental hospital with a “white ticket” in his hands.

In 1985, the Kino group released two albums at once. One was called "Night" and the other was called "This is not love." Fans swept away all the cassettes from the shelves in just a few days.

A year later, Viktor Tsoi decided to try himself in a new field. He became a film actor. For the first time on the screens, a popular rock artist appeared in the film "The End of the Holidays". Then Victor collaborated with director Alexei Uchitel. He starred in his movie Rock. But that is not all. In the creative piggy bank of Tsoi, roles in such films as "Assa" and "Needle".

Death

On August 15, 1990, the famous musician died in a car accident. It happened in Latvia, near Tukums (not far from Riga). Viktor Tsoi was driving along the highway in his Moskvich. At some point, the rock star's car flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into a regular bus. Tsoi did not have the slightest chance of survival.

The funeral of the legend of Russian rock took place on August 19, 1990. The grave of the performer is located at the Theological Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Many fans still celebrate Tsoi's birthday today.

Personal life

Singer Viktor Tsoi was the object of adoration for many women. But this happened only after the group he created gained all-Union fame.

In his youth, a thin guy of Asian appearance was not particularly popular with the opposite sex. And he himself never wanted to become a conqueror of women's hearts. Tsoi Viktor Robertovich dreamed of true love. And soon his prayers were answered.

In 1982, the Kino group had an administrator - a young and attractive girl named Maryana. Victor fell in love with her literally from the first time. His feelings were mutual. The musician courted Maryana for a long time and beautifully. Soon the couple got married. The celebration was attended by the closest people - relatives from both sides, as well as musicians from the Kino group.

In 1985, the first-born son Alexander was born to Maryana and Victor. In his busy work schedule, the musician tried to find more time to communicate with the baby. After some time, discord began in the family. And even a common child could not restore the former relationship between the spouses. In 1987, Victor and Maryana officially divorced.

Tsoi's last love was the translator Natalya Razlogova. He doted on the new chosen one. Victor wanted to live with her until old age. But fate decreed otherwise.

Finally

Now you know all about famous musician from the Kino group. We talked about when Tsoi's birthday is celebrated, what path to fame he went through. The reason for his death was also announced in the article.