Growing up in Pyatigorsk, Russia, lead singer Angelina Moysova was musically inspired by her family: her mother played traditional folk/gypsy music while her brother played modern music.
Apart from the Allchar deposit in Macedonia, lorandite is also found at the Dzhizhikrut Sb–Hg deposit in Tajikistan and at the Beshtau uranium deposit, near Pyatigorsk, northern Caucasus Mountains, Russia.
The name is a corrupted Russian-language reference to a region of "Pyatigorye" ("Five Mountains", Beshtau) in Caucasus, which corresponds to the city of Pyatigorsk.