"Cinema" Victor Tsoy

“Cinema” - one of the most popular Soviet rock groups of 1980th. Its popularity grew over the course of time. At the end of decade, their record was played a million times and whole stadiums of admirers gathered for concerts.

The band was formed by the summer of 1981 in Leningrad and originally was called “Garin and hyperboloids”. A year later the name of the group changed to “Cinema”. In 1983, the group broke up, and then reformed with the members being: Victor Tsoy, Jury Kasparjan, George Guryanov and Alexander Titov.

Practically all the songs of Cinema were written by Victor Tsoy. Victor Robertovich Tsoy was born on June, 21st, 1962 in Leningrad. He finished full-time education as a specialist woodcarver. Victor took a great interest in oriental combat sports, professionally cut out netsuke from trees.

The group enjoyed big popularity in Leningrad, but the film of Sergey Solovyov “Аssа” in 1987 brought them fame. There in the final scene Victor Tsoy sings the song “Want changes”.

In 1988 in Alma-Ata, Rashid Nutmanov made the film “Needle” in which Victor Tsoy played a leading role. He sang some songs, including “The Star named the Sun” and “Group of blood”. After the release of this film and the album “The Group of blood” in the USSR, a general “Cinema-mania” begun.

On June 24th, 1990 “Cinema” presented a grandiose concert in the Moscow Sports complex “Luzhniki”, there was full-scale advertising. The organizers had arranged a salute, were the Olympic Flame burnt. Before it was lit only for the Olympiad in 1980. It was the last concert in the history of the group.

On August 15th, 1990 at 12.28 p.m., Victor Tsoy was lost in an accident near Riga. His death was a shock for millions of people. On August, 19th, he was buried on the Theological cemetery in Leningrad.

“Tsoy's wall” is a wall of the house numbered 37 in Arbat in Moscow. Here admirers of Victor Tsoy’s creativity have written inscriptions “Cinema”, “Tsoy is alive”, citations from songs and declarations of love to the musician. This is one of sights of Moscow.

The wall "has appeared" in 1990 when someone, after news about Victor Tsoy's destruction, highly, through all wall, has deduced black: «Victor Tsoy Today was lost». In the answer someone has attributed: «Tsoy is alive».

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