Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan[a] (born November 8, 1951, known professionally as Stas Namin)[b] is a rock musician known as the leader of the popular Soviet music group Tsvety (Russian: Цветы, lit.

He spent his early childhood years with his parents on military bases, as his father Aleksey was an air force pilot, a veteran of World War II.

His mother was a music historian and writer, and Dmitry Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alfred Schnittke and other celebrated musicians were all guests in the family's house.

He is one of the founders of Russian rock music, the creator and leader of the band the Flowers, which has sold more than 60 million records on the territory of the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries over its half-century of existence, and the author of many popular songs including "Summer Evening", "Nostalgia for the Present" and "We Wish You Happiness!"

In 2017 People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Pletnev led the Russian National Orchestra in his own version of Namin's symphony in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

[citation needed] He performed sitar music in Vrindavan, India, and recorded the triple album Meditation and the composition Fusion raga dedicated to George Harrison.

[41][42][43][44] Namin has created a series of documentary films, including an interview with Ernst Neizvestny, Magical India, The Ancient Churches of Armenia, with the participation of Catholicos Karekin II, and the Russian-American joint productions The Real Cuba and Free to Rock.