Okean Elzy participated at Sribna Pidkova Festival, Alternative 2, Perlyny Sezonu, Tavriyski Ihry, Trust Open Air Gernsbach (Germany), Trash 96, and R.F.I.

This video was the first piece of modern Ukrainian music to make its mark on MTV Russia, as well as France's MCM Channel.

At the very beginning of 1999, Okean Elzy started working on their second album Ya na nebi buv ("I was in the sky").

In 2004 Denys Dudko (Ukrainian jazz bass player) and Miloš Jelić (composer from Novi Sad, Serbia) joined the band.

After that the band went on tour (30 cities in Ukraine and 10 in Russia) with an audio crew consisting of Sergey Kamenev, Alexandr Kostin, Yurii Barybin and Vyacheslav Lavrinenko.

Also, in September Okean Elzy started a joint campaign with IOM and MTV Europe Foundation, fighting human trafficking.

During the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany, Okean Elzy actively supported the Ukrainian national team and cheered the fans with their songs.

The last song of the band called Veseli, brate, chasy nastaly... ("Oh, brother, merry times came...") made a huge splash in Ukraine.

The song and the video were released as a single and all profits were donated to the child care center treating AIDS.

In April 2006 OE went on tour, which includes Chicago, New York City and Toronto, where thousands sang along to their songs.

[9] In 2016, the most famous Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy hits the road for a two-year-long World tour to support its ninth studio album Bez mezh ("Without limits").

On 24 August 2018 the band gathered around 100,000 fans at its concert at NSC Olimpiyskiy dedicated to Ukraine's independence day.

[10] On 7 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Okean Elzy's lead singer Vakarchuk joined the territorial defense battalion of Lviv Oblast.

[12] 13 April 2024 marks the first date of their European tour, starting in Malmö, Sweden, then followed by Gothenburg, Brussels and the UK.

The air alarm interrupted the last show, so they continued to perform while sheltering in the subway at the Palats Sportu station.