Zoopark | |
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| Origin | Leningrad,USSR |
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| Years active | 1981–1991 |
| Members | Mike Naumenko Aleksandr Khrabunov Nail Kadyrov Valery Kirilov |
| Past members | Ilya Kulikov Andrey Danilov Alexander Donskikh Andrey Muratov |
Zoopark (Russian:Зоопарк) was one of the founding rock groups which began the golden era ofrock music in Russia. The group was founded in 1981.[1]
It consisted of singer-songwriterMike Naumenko, guitarist Aleksandr Khrabunov and a varied group of artists. The first album recorded wasAll Brothers Are Sisters withBoris Grebenshchikov in 1978. They recorded on the banks of theNeva River in Leningrad (nowSaint Petersburg) with a "choir" of drunken friends and colleagues playing percussion on metal cans.[2] Naumenko was a rock outcast, concentrating his work on electrified hard-core blues, although his Russian-language poetic songwriting made him a favorite in the hippie underground.[3] His inspirations includedLou Reed,Bob Dylan,T. Rex,B.B. King andChuck Berry.[3]
Naumenko died in 1991,[1] cutting his career short. He remains celebrated, however, as a pioneer of Russian rock music, with his birthday observed in St. Petersburg clubs, along with numerous creative tributes, including a 2009 novel and a "blues opera" that premiered in 2011.[4] A collection of Naumenko's complete written works—including his samizdat translation ofRichard Bach'sIllusions—was being prepared for publication in 2015.[4]
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