While still in school, Barykin sang and played guitar in an amateur band called Allegro.

[4] In August, 1979, Barykin collaborated with the guitarist of Samotsvety, Vladimir Kuzmin to organize a new band called Carnaval.

Carnaval combined a range of styles and influences, including glam rock, rhythm and blues, and white reggae on the base of Russian melodic.

In 1985, the band experimented with pop rock (and after the album Rock'n'roll Marathon passed to this style).

Vadim Nikolayev: "I regretted that it isn't Barykin's song almost ten years.

[9] Near the end of his life, Barykin had reconstituted Carnaval together with such ex-members as guitarist Andrey Vypov, saxophonist and flutist Valentin Ilyenko, drummer Alexander Filonenko, and bass player Petr Makienko, with whom he played in Jemchug.