Gr USSR Biography

Minsk, Belarus. The idea of ​​creating a group was born from a “joke”, and the case helped, although the well -known folk wisdom says: “Andrei Gurinovich and Alexander Zhadan, both in the past officers, have been familiar with more than twenty years. Their friendship was tested by time. Andrei Gurinovich - graduated from the Higher Military -Political School in Kurgan, and“ fell ill ”with music, created a musical group called“ emphasis ”, in the“ emphasis ”, in the repertoire which was the Afghan theme in the Ural Military District, served in the southern group of troops, in Hungary, Alexander Zhadan-graduated from the Higher Airborne Command School in the Baltic states, in Afghanistan, as well as on the border of the annual international festival of the military-patriotic song.

“Afghanistan hurts in my soul”, which was held in Vitebsk, was Alexander Zhadan, who exhibited his paintings after graduation in the army, Alexander graduated from the faculty of easel painting and graphics at the Moscow Academy of Arts, in one of the next festivals, for objective reasons could not bring his paintings. Then, as a joke, someone from the organizing committee of the festival asked: “Maybe the song is?

The question turned out to be very iconic, and the answer to it was to participate in the second place in the festival of the military-patriotic song of the creative union Alexander Zhadan and Andrei Gurinovich, who, on the basis of the general interests and military hardening of the former officers, did not manage to find a studio and make a quality arrangement. The will of the fate of Alexander and Andrei is introduced to the scorester Igor Techina, who, after listening to a couple of songs on the Afghan theme and noting the content of the texts for himself, agrees to cooperate the USSR group in the year on the personal initiative of the leader of the group, the author-performer Alexander Zhadan, the composer, the arranger Igor Techina, Author of Andrei Gurinovich, thanks to the sponsor assistance of some influential people from the business, is also in the past of officers, for whom the concepts of military brotherhood and unity are not empty words, but songs about the moral priorities of a real person, about those spiritual qualities that should be the basis of the personality of the “USSR” repertoire and could not leave them indifferent and not to help the collective in them further creativity.

Such a question is very often asked by the group members. We remember those times when people were more attentive to each other, were friends with families, entrances, courtyards. We arranged joint holidays. We are impressed by friendly relations between people and different peoples that were during the Union. Many even today believe that the time will come, and we will be together again: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine.

After all, we are the Slavs! No boundaries can become insurmountable obstacles for this. During the years of testing, we defended our freedom and independence together. In one of our songs, there are such words: “We can simply take this period from Kievan Rus from history. Thus, in the year, on the eve of the holiday of the“ Defender of the Fatherland ”day and on the occasion of the next anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan on February 15, the presentation of the first album of the USSR group under the name“ served the Soviet Union ”was held.

And again it became a sign of circumstances: again, and again it became a sign of circumstances: 15 years have already passed at that period of time since a huge state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has disappeared from the political maps of the world. It so happened that all of the above coincidences were not accidental. It was with Afghan theme that the work of this group began, and the first album “served the Soviet Union”, which included such cool songs as “I remember”, “I choose”, “lilac”, “be a man”, “body armor”, “caravans”, “dedication to a woman”, “red light”, “stones”, “knight”, “lovers”, “homeland”, and the very name of the group - the name of the group - the name of the group.

“USSR”: For these officers who swore allegiance to this state, not at all empty sounds and not even a fashionable brand, but a way through their creativity, filled with a powerful patriotic impulse and a sincere desire, to contribute to the formation of universal values: to educate fellow fellow love for the motherland, freedom, respect for the past and their historical roots. And the final song of the presentation concert, which was called “served the Soviet Union,” the hall listened to standing.

It was thanks to this song that after some time the USSR group became the laureate of the first award of the International Festival of the Army Song “Vivat, Victoria”, held in Ryazan and then at the International Festival-Contemplation “Victory Soldiers” in Kharkov. Currently, the group operates on the basis of the State Institution “Senitsky Center for Culture”, which is subordinate to the Department of Culture of the Minsk District Executive Committee, in the following composition: the artistic director of the collective, the composer-amubler Igor Tychin, the artist, the author of the texts Alexander Zhadan, the artist, the composer of the-amerbuer Andrei Lemeshenko, who adequately changed Andrei Gurinovich.

Status and creative activity are confirmed by a passport, the Regulation on the unprofessional amateur people's exemplary team of amateur art in the Republic of Belarus. The demand and significance of the group’s creative activity, its contribution to the patriotic and moral education, the propaganda of universal values ​​is marked by a large number of diplomas and thanks from all over the post -Soviet space.

In the summer of the year, the composition of the group expanded: it included another veteran of Afghanistan and the magnificent performer - Stas Yurko. During its existence, the group: is the laureate of the "Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk"; became the laureate of the first award of the International Telefest of the Patriotic Song in Ryazan “Vivat, Victoria”; became the laureate of the 2nd award at the IV International Festival of the Patriotic Song “Afghanistan hurts in my soul”; became the best in the nomination “For Fidelity to Military Traditions” at the IV Moscow International Festival of Afghan Songs “Soldiers of Russia”; She won the Grand Prix at the Zhodi festival of the "Afghan" song.