Strannye Igry (Russian: Странные игры, Strange Games) was a Soviet Leningrad-based new wave band, noted for using the ska influences (which was unusual for the Soviet music scene of the time), writing lyrics based on the translations of the early 20th century French poetry and indulging themselves in all sorts of buffoonery on stage.

[1] Strannye Igry released two studio albums, Metamorphosis (1983) and Look Sharp (1986), the latter recorded without Davydov, who'd left in April 1984 and died two months later of heart attack.

[1] Rakhov, Kondrashkin and Nikolai Gusev (a second keyboardist who joined Strannye Igry in 1982) formed AVIA.

The Sologub brothers released two albums in late 1986-1989 as part of Igry, a four-piece, featuring Igor Cherednik and Andrei Nuzhdin.

[1] Since 1996 Strannye Igry started to sporadically reform for odd concerts, but no original material has been released.