Orgia Pravednikov (Russian: Оргия Праведников, lit.
Orgia Pravednikov was formed in early 1999 by a merge of the rock group Artel, whose style can be described as art-rock, and singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist Sergey Kalugin, who had just had his previous act Dikaya Okhota ('Wild Hunt') disbanded.
[1] Soon after the forming the band released an eponymous single, and in 2001 an album Oglaschennye, isydite!.
Over the decade, 2001-2010, the band output four studio albums.
In 2013, Orgia Pravednikov made it to the shortlist of the radio's annual awards, including a song, an album and the vocalist (Kalugin) in respective nominations, though eventually the band did not win any award,[2] as determined by audience poll results.