Optimizm

Optimizm (Russian: Оптимизм, Optimism) is the second studio album by Soviet/Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona.

The original versions of Poganaya molodezh and Optimizm were recorded in 1984 with Egor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinov (Kuzya UO, Кузя УО) and intended to be a Posev album.

According to Letov, the two albums represented two parts of one big release and published together on a single tape.

Participants in the recording of the album in 1985 was Andrey Babenko (Boss), Oleg Ivanovsky and Valery Rozhkov, who played the flute in the song "Optimizm".

The song "Sobaka", "Na nashikh glazakh" and "Optimizm" was played in the genre reggae and folk.