MC Vspyshkin

Starting as DJ at his advanced age, he wore a big natural beard and mustache, extravagant costumes and used offbeat humor in his texts, which most strikingly set him apart from other performers of that time.

[5] Vladimir Turkov was himself bodybuilder and in 1960s opened a gym club "Monolith", where youth could try themselves in this kind of activity.

[6] For this reason, Turkov had been persecuted by the regional officials, because Soviet authorities were suspicious of bodybuilding movement.

[6] In the period from late 1980s till early 2000s, Vladimir Turkov appeared in episodic roles in different films and series.

[11] Vladimir Turkov died of a heart attack on 14 November 2011 on the platform of the metro station Ulitsa Dybenko.