Komsomolsk's origins began in late 2015 when Daria (Dasha) Deriugina, Ivan Riabov, and Arina Andreeva met in Moscow before the band's first rehearsals.
(Ivan Riabov)[2]Right after debut live performance, Ilia Lopatin quit the band and emigrated to Poland, being immediately replaced with Pavel Kochetov, a drummer from Voronezh.
In spring 2018, the band followed up with the fourth official release, six-track EP Dorogie Moskvichi (Russian: Дорогие москвичи, lit.
'), solo gigs sold-outs in Moscow, a number of festival appearances including iconic Afisha Picnic, and live performance at Evening Urgant TV talk show aired on Channel One.
The second studio album Retro (Russian: Ретро) was delivered just within a year in May 2021 and was hailed by critics as a sequel of Blizhnii Svet, yet recorded in Baroque pop aesthetics.
[7][8] Dasha Deriugina claimed this release to be 'the fastest album we have ever recorded, the band's most conceptual statement, fresh and pure like the green foliage in May'.
[9] In February 2024, Andreeva and Deriugina gave two concerts in Melitopol, Ukrainian territory illegally occupied by Russia, and stated that "they made their choice to live in their country with its problems".