Laskovyi Mai (Russian: Ласковый май, lit.

'Tender May') is a Soviet boy band from Orenburg founded by Russian songwriter, composer and musician Sergei Kuznetsov.

The group's best-known member was Yuri Shatunov, who subsequently went on to some solo success.

[1] Laskovyi Mai was formed in the middle of the 1980s when Sergei Kuznetsov decided to create a group of musicians with orphan children from an orphanage in Orenburg.

[2] In November 2022, Sergey Malinkovich, the Chairman of the Communists of Russia political party, accused musician Andrey Razin of treason for selling the rights to the songs of Laskovyi Mai to an American company.