According to Wikipedia, Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Russian: Гражданская Оборона), or GrOb was one of the earliest Russian punk bands. It influenced many later Soviet and then Russian bands. The name of the band means “Civil Defence” in Russian. From the early 1990s their music began to evelove in the direction of psychedelic and garage rock, and their lyrics became more poetic.
Grazhdanskaya Oborona was formed in the Omsk, Siberia, by bandleader Yegor Letov, who was the only one to remain a member throughout the life of the band. To distinguish his group from others of the period, which only slightly flouted the tenets of Communism, Letov branded the band with the slogan “I will always be against”. Grazhdanskaya Oborona are synonymous in Russia with self-destructive punk energy in the name of social dissidence…read more on Wikipedia
props to Boz for the heads up.
Гражданская Оборона и Егор Летов – концерт в ДКГ, 2004 год
nobody put this amaizing song soo here it is ‘)) The band was created by a young Soviet dissident, Egor Letov, in December of 1984. At that point, Russian underground music was close to its peak. Rock bands such as Aquarium, Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine), and Kino were enormously popular; however, punk rock as a genre was new to Soviet underground musical scene. Gr.Ob. were the ones to fill this vacant niche, and now maintains a huge army of fans, admirers, and followers. It inspired hundreds of subsequent Soviet and then Russian punk bands.