In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is "Balalaika".
Members belonging to the chordophone family include the guitar, piano, banjo, organ, mandolin, ukulele, Harp, balalaika and many other regional speciality instruments.
Leaving Oxford, and arriving in London, Gore trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Polunin from whom he learnt the flat-on-the-floor method of painting backdrops for the theatre: most useful later on when as an active member of the Balalaika Dance Group as dancer and organiser of events, he enhanced their productions with his professional expertise.
Global Balalaika Show is a 2003 live album by the Leningrad Cowboys celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Total Balalaika Show.
Between 1937 and 1941, she, at first under the name of Kyra Vronska, toured in such musicals as ‘’Balalaika’’, ‘’Show Boat’’ and ‘’Chu Chin Chow’’.
One of the main reasons the theme is featured in so many tracks is that Lean had hired an impromptu balalaika orchestra from several Russian Orthodox Churches in Los Angeles; the musicians could only learn 16 bars of music at a time, and could not read written music.
She is a recognized authority in the mandolin world, a regular guest artist and instructor of the Classical Mandolin Society of America and BDAA (Balalaika and Domra Association of America and Canada).