Alyans (band)

The group initially included Igor Zhuravlev on vocals and guitar, Andrey Tumanov on bass, and Vladimir Ryabov on drums.

[1][2][3] At the end of 1982, sound engineer Igor Zamaraev heard Alyans at the rock festival "Fiztekh - 1982" (Russian: «Физтех — 1982») in Dolgoprudny and suggested recording an album.

This album contains initial versions of later hits that were re-recorded and included on the 1984 albumYa medlenno uchilsya zhit' (Russian: «Я медленно учился жить», lit.

At the same festival, the members of Alyans met the artistic director of the Kostroma Philharmonic, who offered them professional work.

'Wizards'), since the philharmonic's warehouse had unused posters from another group called Kudesniki, which had broken up several months prior to the tour.

After concerts in the town of Buy, a commission from Moscow removed Alyans from the tour, citing “the lack of effectiveness of the program”.

[4] In the fall of 1986, the group appeared in public at the Forum of Creative Youth in the Metelitsa cafe, after which it entered the Moscow Rock Laboratory.

Alyans at that time comprised: Zhuravlev, Maxim Trefan (keyboards, ex - “Polite Refusal”), Yuri “Khen” Kistenev (drums), Konstantin “Castello” Baranov (guitar, ex - “Nikolai Copernicus”), Sergey “Grebstel” Kalachev (bass), Vladimir “Miss” Missarzhevsky (percussion, ex - “Meeting On the Elbe”).

[10] From 2008, Alyans regularly gave concerts in Moscow clubs, sometimes in different line-ups, based on Igor Zhuravlev and Andrey Tumanov.