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4 unusual facts about Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu


Aleksei Kruchenykh

The Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona have a reggae-styled song called "Posveshtenie A. Kruchenykh" (Homage to A. Kruchenykh) on their 1990 concept album Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu.

Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu

At their first gig, the KGB declared them to be fascists and expelled them from the Komsomol and sent them to the army.

Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu

It was their final album before their break up a week later (they played their final concert in Tallinn on the 13th of April, 9 days after the album was mixed), but they reformed in 1993.

Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu

Their latest album, Armageddon Pozadi!, is being funded by a Boomstarter (Russian equivalent of Kickstarter or Pozible) page.



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