was founded in 1987 by singer and bass player Maxim Pokrovsky, together with guitarist Vitaly Akshevsky and later drummer Anton Yakomulsky.

The song "Haru Mamburu" (Russian: Хару Мамбуру), whose lyrics are a nonsense phonetic play on English, became widely known in 1993 after winning a first prize at the festival Generation-93.

Having gained popularity (they even appeared with Russian mega-star Alla Pugachova in a concert), the band spent the next two years maturing their sound.

Wind and horn sections received additional attention, synth parts became more colorful, bass became more subdued.

For example, in a song describing the romance between a lady and a soldier, he proclaims: "...save our women from the anti-war rabble of the world"!).

The band recorded two albums between 1997 and 1999: Schastliva, potomu chto beremenna: Siniy al'bom (Russian: «Счастлива, потому что беременна: Cиний альбом», lit.

'Happy Because I'm Pregnant: The Blue Album') and Schastliva, potomu chto beremenna: Zelyonyi al'bom (Russian: «Счастлива, потому что беременна: Зелёный альбом», lit.

The band continued their commercial success with two hits from the "Blue" album, "Liliputskaya lyubov'" (Russian: «Лилипутская любовь», lit.

'Moscow Romance'), the latter with an award-winning video presenting Pokrovsky as a Southern Caucasian begging for money on the background of a sweeping Moscow panorama.

The opening track has a retro-style rock and roll guitar riff backed up by a sweeping chord sequence.

"Volki" is a slow dance and the Nirvana pastiche "Den' rojdeniya" (Russian: «День рождения», lit.

In 1999, the out-takes and non-album tracks compilation Kally (Russian: «Каллы») was released, drawing mostly on their earlier period, to mark the band's tenth anniversary.

The other tracks run the full gamut of styles: classical parody "Ave Maria" (Schubert's famous melody interpolated with incongruous guitar noise), covers of two famous Russian film melodies probably originally intended for the "Blue" album, "Myasnoy brudershaft" (Russian: «Мясной брудершафт», lit.

'The Meat Brüderschaft') parodying German popular music, early songs like "I'm Blue" and "Sporting", and drawn-out psychedelic jams "Hrustal'naya vaza" and "Diblopops" (Russian: «Диблопопс»).

The band now embraced outside influences in a wholesale way, maintaining its identity almost exclusively on the strength of Pokrovskiy's voice and image.

'The Last Tango'), "Nashi yunye smeshnye golosa" (Russian: «Наши юные смешные голоса», lit.

'), which became a theme song to the reality show Last Hero, a Russian version of Survivor, in which Pokrovsky participated in late 2003.

Maxim Pokrovsky tried his hand at composing music for cinema, that is, writing the soundtrack to the film Time Is Money, which was shown in the US and Australia and was a success.

At the end of 2004 the group released an album that included the soundtrack and the song “Moskva - Shaverma”, for which a video was made.

Also in 2004 the band released its first "greatest hits" compilation entitled Otkrovennye fotografii (Russian: «Откровенные фотографии», lit.

'Candid Photos'), which collected the band's most popular songs and some tracks previously unreleased or released only as singles (such as "Ya - ne posledniy geroy!")

To celebrate the event the group put on a great show in Estrada Theatre on April, 20, which was first shown on one of the main Russian TV channels and then several times on MTV Russia.

The song became very popular and was played on the main Russian radio stations, and the video topped TV charts.

Before this album, the title song was used as the main soundtrack single from the 2005 Russian record-breaking blockbuster film The Turkish Gambit.

In 2005, Pokrovsky appeared in the film Rhythm of Tango (director Alexander Pavlovsky, starring Natalia Oreiro), where the group's songs were used.

In the autumn of 2005 Pokrovsky played Gorynych in the Hollywood film Treasure Raiders, directed by Brent Huff and produced by Alexander Nevsky.

Among his partners were David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn, William Shockley, Steven Brand and Andrew Divoff.

[9] On January 11, 2010, the band was jokingly renamed the "Voice of the Universe" (Russian: Голос вселенной, romanized: Golos Vselennoy) during the filming of the video for "Marsianskiy val's".

The presentation of the video for the titular song in a Moscow restaurant in February 2016 involved a publicity stunt during which a theft was acted out and police pretended to arrest the musicians.

has released a number of songs and videos against the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[12] namely "Nam ne nuzhna voina!"