The organizers and first members of the group were Dmitry Kopotilov and Viktor Bondaryuk. creative path each of the musicians began long before this event. Victor, student construction technical school tried to play the drums. Dima at the age of fifteen, still a schoolboy, mastered ... Read all

The Russian Size group was created in 1991 in St. Petersburg, has been working and touring to the present (2009).

The organizers and first members of the group were Dmitry Kopotilov and Viktor Bondaryuk. The creative path of each of the musicians began long before this event. Victor, a student at a construction college, tried to play the drums. Dima at the age of fifteen, still a schoolboy, mastered the bass guitar.

Playing in different ensembles, two future creators of the Russian Size group, even then tried to compose their own songs. And if you look into the past, it can be noted that in 1985-86 the Oracle group, in which V. Bondaryuk and D. Kopotilov already played together, such songs were performed at discos and dance floors.

Returning from the army, in 1988 D. Kopotilov met Pavel Kashin (Pavel Kashin). (now a well-known singer-songwriter). Together with other musicians, they organized a group with the extravagant name "Pathology Department". The group participated in rock festivals. Several songs were recorded, the author of which was mainly P. Kashin.

In 1990, D. Kopotilov, while still living in Kustanai (northern Kazakhstan), recorded demo phonograms of two of his songs for a new project he had conceived. One of them - "Hello America" ​​- in 1991 was recorded with new vocalist at the state radio broadcasting studio in St. Petersburg. With this work, the Russian Size group opened its discography. During its recording, a duet of voices by V. Bondaryuk and D. Kopotilov was created, the sound of which became easily recognizable in the songs of the group. This was followed by work on other material. D. Kopotilov was the author of music and texts of the period of the first steps of the group. This is how “Yu-a-Yu” appeared, which for a long time became the hallmark of the group.

The first concerts of the Russian Size group can be considered club performances (1991) in the Palace of Culture named after. First Five-Year Plan, now already destroyed for the construction of a new one on this site Mariinsky Theater opera and ballet.

At the same time, the participants themselves carried out production activities to promote the group. The search for partners took a lot of effort and time. There were moments of despair, and in one of these periods, V. Bondaryuk left gr. "Russian size". Victor went to Germany as part of another muses. group that participated in street performances. Guitar, double bass, snare drum and finally the tambourine, which Victor played - her small composition. However, at the same time, as it turned out later, Bondaryuk did not stop thinking about the possibility of his return to the Russian Size group upon his return to Russia.

At that time, the Russian Size group included:

A. Tyurin (guitar),

D. Khil (keyboards, programming, vocals),

D. Kopotilov (keyboards, producer)

S. Kunitsyna (vocal)

After some time, V. Bondaryuk, who had gone in search of happiness through the crossroads of Germany, returned to St. Petersburg. The musicians of the group again included him in their composition.

On March 13, 1993, at the Yubileiny sports and concert complex, organized by Sergei Chernykh with the participation of Sergei K. big concert with the pretentious name "Russian Size gathers friends." It was attended by the stars of the pop scene of the nineties: Arkady Ukupnik, Alena Apina, Natalia Vetlitskaya, Tatiana Ovsienko, Stars of Natalia Gulkina (Natalia Gulkina), Sergey Chumakov, Lika Star, Little Prince, KOMISAR, Stella, Dance Machines, Fairy of Svetlana Razina (Svetlana Razina), Vadim Kazachenko, Na-Na group, Svetlana Vladimirskaya, Roma Zhukov, Lada Dance, Carolina, Igor Seliverstov led the concert.

The group's first released album was recorded in collaboration with the sound producer Vadim Volodin (Svetlana Razina, Svetlana Vladimirskaya, Kar-Men, NeIgrushki, R. Zhukov, Karolina and many others). Work on it was carried out in Moscow. The director of the group was Sergey Chernykh (later the producer of the music TV program Telecompact)

Since 1994 gr. "Russian Size" is a participant in numerous musical television show programs. The video for the song “Batman” (“Yu-a-Yu”) (dir. B. Dedenev, arrangement and sound by Vadim Volodin) occupies high places in the charts.

The science fiction aesthetics of the early 20th century became the basis of the group's stage image. And according to the sketches of the same D. Kopotilov, who does not hide his passion for this genre in its modern incarnation, stage costumes stylized as fantasy of the 30s were sewn. They were used on the cover of the first Yu-a-Yu album, on the filming of the video of the same name and at the group's performances.

At that time, the concerts of the stars touring in St. Petersburg (Army of Lovers, Haddaway, La Toya Jackson ..) begin with the performances of the Russian Size group. It was on one of them, in the St. Petersburg SKK, from gr. "Russian Size" for the first time in a dance, club context, the cry "Come on, come on" sounded. It scattered throughout the country, echoing in its clubs and discos, and now it has become a familiar club chant.

In 1995, the soloist and dancer Angela left the group, deciding to take up solo work.

Aspiring singer Alexei Lebedinsky (music worker of the Adam's Apple TV show) falls into the zone of attention of the Russian Size group.

Director A. Levin is in charge of administrative matters. It is difficult to overestimate his contribution to the development and formation of the group.

A joint album of parodies “Come on, come on” with Professor Lebedinsky is being recorded. The whole country is having fun and jumping in discos to remade hits Russian stars.

The young radio DJ Dmitry Nagiyev (now a popular TV presenter, theater and film actor) is actively involved in the promotion of new compositions in creative unity with the team. At the same time, on the label "Electric Rec." the record “Meow” is released with tracks recorded in between the events of a busy club life.

Since 1997 the master choreographer Yulia Kosheleva from Novosibirsk works in the group. The group is greatly assisted by the novice journalist Yuri Borisov (Zolotaya obyma, group Bullet, Renata, group Tea Together).

In the legendary club "Candyman" a video for the song "Fly" with the participation of DJ Kefir is being shot.

There is a recording of Mike Naumenko's song (Mike Naumenko, group "Zoo") "Suburban Blues" together with the group "Chizh & Co" to participate in the TV battle "Musical Ring" and conduct a joint tour. In the same year, the album “Dancing?” reached the shores of America (for reference: the Internet at that time was in its infancy and albums were delivered to America by plane). From that moment Gr. "Russian Size" often happens overseas (in the period from 1997 to 2009 the team visited many cities in Canada and the USA on tour).

The song "Angel of the Day" and the clip, on which A. Igudin and [A. Tikhonov] worked, in 1999 again displays gr. "Russian Size" to the top of the charts.

Since 1999, the voice of Eleonora Filimonova has been heard from the stage and on the records. Behind the console is the permanent sound engineer Alexander Borisovich Borisov.

There is a big tour in Russia with the group "E-Type". Joint songs are recorded with T. Bulanova (Tatiana Bulanova), DJ Tsvetkov, (DJ Tsvetkoff) Zh. Aguzarova (Zhanna Aguzarova), Sveta (Sveta). The albums “Exit” are published in collaboration with R. Chistyakov (Black and White), “Ascending Air currents” in collaboration with D. Afanasiev (Baks).

In the spring of 2004, a big concert was held at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg with the participation of many stars of the Russian stage. The show was dedicated to the thirteenth anniversary of the Russian Size group. It was attended by: Tatyana Bulanova, DJ Tsvetkoff, Irakli, Yulia Savicheva, Dmitry Nagiyev, S. Chigrakov (Chizh & Co), gr. "Guests from the Future", A. Romanov, gr. " Inveterate Scammers”, Sveta, Professor Lebedinsky, Roma Zhukov, gr. "Other Rules", Masha Rzhevskaya and others.

At the beginning of 2005. instead of Viktor, who left the group and again left for Germany, as part of gr. "Russian Size" appears new member Igor Lutsenko.

Foreign tours gr. "Rsize" is not limited to some overseas shores. The band is known and loved in many European countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Italy, the United Kingdom and, of course, Israel. The Russian Size group is touring and continues to work on new albums. The 2009 album included 14 songs. Ten originals and four remakes.

In August 2010, the Moscow record company "Kvadrodisk" released the next album of the group Russian Size "!Listen".

The Russian Size group was created in 1991 in St. Petersburg, and has been working and touring to this day.
The organizers and first members of the group were Dmitry Kopotilov and Viktor Bondaryuk. The creative path of each of the musicians began long before
this event. Victor, a student at a construction college, tried to play the drums. Dima at the age of fifteen, still a schoolboy, mastered the bass guitar.

Playing in different ensembles, the two future creators of the Russian Size group already tried to compose their own songs. And if you look into the past
it can be noted that in 1985-86 the Oracle group, in which V. Bondaryuk and D. Kopotilov already played together, such songs were performed on
discos and dance floors.

Returning from the army, in 1988 D. Kopotilov met Pavel Kashin (Pavel Kashin) (now a well-known singer-songwriter). Together with others
As musicians, they organized a group with the extravagant name "Pathological Anatomical Department". The group participated in rock festivals.
Several songs were recorded, the author of which was mainly P. Kashin.
In 1990, D. Kopotilov, while still living in Kustanai (northern Kazakhstan), recorded demo phonograms for a new project conceived by him
two of his songs. One of them - "Hello America" ​​- was recorded in 1991 with a new vocalist at the public broadcasting studio in
St. Petersburg. With this work, the Russian Size group opened its discography. When recording it, a duet of voices by V. Bondaryuk and D. Kopotilov was created,
the sound of which has become easily recognizable in the songs of the group. This was followed by work on other material. The author of music and texts of the period of the first
The steps of the group was D. Kopotilov. This is how “Yu-a-yu” appeared, which for a long time became the hallmark of the group.
The first concerts of the Russian Size group can be considered club performances (1991) in the Palace of Culture. First Five-Year Plan, now already destroyed for construction
on this site of the new Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theatre.

At the same time, the participants themselves carried out production activities to promote the group. The search for partners took a lot of effort and time.
There were moments of despair, and in one of these periods, V. Bondaryuk left gr. "Russian size". Victor went to Germany as part of another muses.
group that participated in street performances. Guitar, double bass, snare drum and finally the tambourine, which Victor played - her small composition.
However, at the same time, as it turned out later, Bondaryuk did not stop thinking about the possibility of his return to the Russian Size group.
upon returning to Russia.

At that time, the Russian Size group included:
A. Tyurin (guitar),
D. Khil (keyboards, programming, vocals),
D. Kopotilov (keyboards, producer)
S. Kunitsyna (vocal)

After some time, V. Bondaryuk, who had gone in search of happiness through the crossroads of Germany, returned to St. Petersburg. The musicians of the group turned it on again
into your composition.
On March 13, 1993, a big concert organized by Sergei Chernykh with the participation of Sergei K. took place in the Yubileiny sports and concert complex
with the pretentious name "Russian Size Gathers Friends". It was attended by the stars of the pop scene of the nineties: Arkady Ukupnik, Alena Apina,
Natalya Vetlitskaya, Tatyana Ovsienko, Stars (Natalya Gulkina), Sergey Chumakov, Lika Star, Little Prince, Commissar, Stella, Dance Machines,
Fairy (Svetlana Razina), Vadim Kazachenko, Na-Na, Svetlana Vladimirskaya, Roma Zhukov, Lada Dance, Carolina, Igor Seliverstov led the concert.

The group's first released album was recorded in collaboration with sound producer Vadim Volodin (Svetlana Razina, Svetlana Vladimirskaya,
Kar-Man, Non-Toys, R. Zhukov, Carolina and many others. etc.). Work on it was carried out in Moscow. The director of the group was Sergey Chernykh (later producer
music TV programs Telecompact)

P.S. The band's debut album: http://myzuka.ru/Album/391044/Captain-Cooper-We-With-You-1990

Our today's hero is a musician and singer Viktor Bondaryuk. He became famous thanks to his performances as part of the Russian Size group. More detailed information about him and his work is presented in the article. We wish you happy reading!

Viktor Bondaryuk: biography, childhood

He was born on October 18, 1967 in one of the largest cities in Kazakhstan - Kustanai. Our hero was brought up in an ordinary family with an average income. At the age of 5, Vitya began to attend music school where he studied piano. The teachers immediately noted his perfect hearing and

In high school, Bondaryuk became a member of the school ensemble. He quickly mastered such an instrument as a drum. It was in the ensemble that the guy met Dmitry Kopotilov, his future colleague in the Russian Size group.

Adulthood

Viktor Bondaryuk served 2 years in the Soviet armed forces. Returning to civilian life, our hero decided to seriously engage in creativity. In 1990, together with his friend Pasha Kashin, he went to St. Petersburg. The performances of the guys did not have much success. They returned to their native Kustanai. One day Vitya met his old friend Dima Kopotilov.

Group "Russian size"

Our hero again went to St. Petersburg. This time he was accompanied by Pasha and Dima. They met producer Sergei Chernykh, who took over their promotion. In February 1993, a new musical project- "Russian size". The songs performed by the guys fell in love with many listeners. Came out soon debut album team. It was called "Yu-a-yu".

In 1995, Viktor Bondaryuk and Dmitry Kopotilov met a businessman. This man decided to become their producer. He immediately changed the composition, turning the duet into a quartet. From now on, Vitya and Dima were supposed to perform with a girl, Angela Kuznetsova, and Professor Lebedinsky. In 1996, the Russian Size group was at the peak of its popularity. The guys toured our country, collecting full houses in every city. After some time, Professor Lebedinsky left the team. In his place came the charming soloist Yulia Kosheleva. She stayed with the group until 2000. Victor and Dmitry quickly found a replacement for her. Eleonora Filimonova became the new soloist.

To date, the creative piggy bank of "Russian Size" includes 14 studio albums. The team continues to tour Russia, performing both old songs and new hits. Viktor Bondaryuk is not a member of the group. Now Russian Size is a trio (Eleonora Filimonova, Igor Lutsenko and Dmitry Kopotilov).

History of creation

The idea of ​​creating your own musical group came to two friends Viktor Bondaryuk and Dmitry Kopotilov back in 1993. They have long been fond of music, composed their own songs.

Both guys have been addicted to music since childhood. Bondaryuk began to study vocals in student years and got real pleasure from playing the drum kit, and Kopotilov with school years took part in creative life, mastered the guitar and performed at various concerts, learned to sing and tried to write his own poems.

The two friends met in 1984, but then the creation of a team was out of the question. They tried to make a living in every possible way, singing in restaurants, working on a construction site, delivering parcels at the post office. Kopotilov was the first to promote his own talent. He used the money he earned to record several of his own songs in a professional studio. The producers were reluctant to respond to the applications of young people. Nobody wanted to take on a new, unknown project. The risk was huge.

But in 1992, the guys were still lucky, and the coveted contract ended up in their pocket. The first album of the Russian size group was released already in 1994 and was recorded in Moscow. You can download the songs of the Russian Size group for free on our website.

New people have been added to the team, now the group has a keyboard player, guitarists, and a soloist. However, the line-up often changed as the artists wanted to pursue solo careers. Thus, already in 1995, one of the main female soloists left the group. In the same year, the band went on tour with the famous keyboard player Alexei Lebedinsky.

Young people traveled with tour not only Russia, but also neighboring countries. They were recognizable by fans, their songs were played at all fashionable parties.

The second album with the hot title "Come on, Come on" was sold out from kiosks in two weeks. A personal choreographer begins to work with the group, who works out dance sequences during the performance of songs, and a journalist who manages to write in time about the news of the group in all newspapers.

In 1999 Russian size comes new soloist, which immediately becomes the star of the team. Eleonora Filimonova contributed new bright colors in the performance of vocal compositions.

In the period from 1999 to 2008, the band released about 15 albums with the most famous hits. Their songs are easily recognizable by fans, and a concert in any city always takes place with a full house.

Currently the band is actively touring Russia, working on songs for recording a new album. For fans of their work, an official website has been created, as well as groups in in social networks. The musicians themselves do not really like to advertise their lives, so they rarely go online.

Listen to the songs of the group Russian size online right now.

They were at the pinnacle of success: crowded concert halls, persecution of fans and huge fees. Now, almost everyone has found an energetic young replacement. But the stars of the 90s are not going to give up - they continue on their way, albeit not so noticeable.

"Kar-Man"

TV show "50 x 50", 1992. The Kar-men group is on stage. PHOTO Tatyana Kuzmina/TASS Newsreel

This group of two charismatic and sexy guys captivated listeners in 1989. Oleg Titorenko (better known as Bogdan Titomir) and Sergey Ogurtsov (aka Lemokh) met thanks to the famous singer in those years Vladimir Maltsevwho was the first to sing the song "Paris, Paris" written by Lemokh. Titomir then played the bass guitar, and Lemokh played the keys, and both were back-dancers.

Kar-man - Paris. One of the first performances of the group "Kar-man" in 1989. At first, Vladimir Maltsev was the soloist, and Sergey Ogurtsov (Lemokh) and Bogdan Titomir worked on the subd...

Energetic and textured musicians were noticed by producer Arkady Ukupnik and began their promotion. Until the 90th year, the names “Magic of the Stars”, “Exotic Pop Duet”, “Carmen” were sorted out. The last name was transformed into “Kar-Man”, and under it Bogdan and Sergey, according to their own statement, staged a “dance revolution”, coming up with unusual movements, for example, his signature leg swing. To this day, their "Paris", "London, Goodbye", "Chao, Bambino" and other hits continue to delight fans, but without Titomir, who, after a year of popularity that fell on him, decided to go solo swimming. The author of the winged "People Hawat" and the super hit "Do as I do", being considered the first Russian rapper, continues to look for his home port, producing and occasionally performing in bars and clubs. And his ex-colleague in the group continues to perform with "Kar-Man" in clubs and in combined concerts of "Disco 90s". 51-year-old Lemokh and 49-year-old Titomir have never tried to reunite in 25 years, they have not even discussed it. Sergey is married twice and has two daughters.

Sergei Lemokh A photo: Personal page of the hero of the publication in the social network

Bogdan is in search, continuing to "exploit" sexuality on stage and in life.

"Hands up!"

Group "Hands Up" in the dashing 90s.

That rare case when the group did not disappear. They are remembered and loved. Let not young girls, as before, but peers of musicians who go to Hands Up to nostalgic about carefree youth to the uncomplicated rhythms of Student, Ai-Yai-Yai, My Baby and 18 I'm already ".

The group appeared in 1993, when the radio DJs of the Samara "Europe Plus" Sergey Zhukov (came to the Samara radio from the Ulyanovsk region) and Alexei Potekhin (originally from Samara region) became friends and recorded several songs, which they gave to friends at the radio station "Maximum" ... And off we go! In 2006 "Hands Up!" broke up. The reasons are still obscure. Either the interests of the guys began to diverge, or they simply stopped “selling out”, as before. As a result, Potekhin went backstage and began producing young performers, and Zhukov continued to perform first solo, and then again in the Hands Up! group, but without a friend.

40-year-old Sergey Zhukov also managed to realize himself as a family: he has two marriages and four children.

Alexei Potekhin, 44, is also married twice and has a daughter.

"Technology"

Remember their "Push the Button" and "Weird Dances"? These, as it was fashionable then to say, "100" hits of the 90s blew up the air of radio stations, endlessly spun on music TV channels. "Technology" was created in 1990 by musicians Leonid Velichkovsky (later producer of Lada Dance, groups "Shooter", "Virus"), Roman Ryabtsev, Andrey Kokhaev. They invited Vladimir Nechitailo to become soloists. The peak of the popularity of "Technology" came in 91-92, when producer Yuri Aizenshpis took up the promotion of the group. But after the crazy rise of the Russian pioneers electronic music almost everyone left the group, including Ryabtsev - he decided to start a solo career and flew off to record in France. After a complete renewal of the composition, the popularity of "Technology" did not increase, rather, on the contrary. was not successful and Solo career Roman Ryabtsev, and, 11 years later, he and Vladimir Nechitailo reunited with Technology.

Now Roman Ryabtsev, as part of the team, continues to perform old hits of the "legendary" Technology ", and the producers ask not to sing new songs as unnecessary, although they are sometimes still performed at rare concerts. He also starred in TV series as himself. Roman is 46 years old, two years ago he married a journalist.

"Russian size"

Group "Russian Size" during the peak of popularity.

Dozens of dance hits: "Angel of the Day", "Star of Separation", "Spring", "Like this", "Fly" in the genre of synth-pop, techno, rave, trance and Eurodance so "turned on" the youth of the 90s that even having split into two separate teams, they continue to tour and earn money. The group was created in 1985 by friends from the Kazakh city of Kostanay Viktor Bondaryuk and Dmitry Kopotilov. At first, their duet was called "Oracle", "Captain Cooper" and "Pathological Department". In 1991, when Vitya and Dima "Kapa" resumed the tandem after moving to Leningrad, they began to perform their songs in a group with a new name "Russian size" "Problems began long before the collapse of the team in 2005. Changing soloists, producers, creative impasse and disagreements between Bondaryuk and Kopotilov created difficulties, but for some time the group continued to perform. But in the end, the founders did not agree and dispersed. Today "Russian Size" represented only by Dmitry Kopotilov, the author of the group's main hits, who performs in a duet with new musician Igor Lutsenko.

The group of Viktor Bondaryuk, who came up with the name "Russian size", from which Kopotilov won the court for the right to perform under this name, until recently was called "Size Project", now - "140 beats per minute".

Bondaryuk is married to the actress of the series "Kitchen" Irina Temicheva, Kopotilov is also married and has a son.

Group "Lyceum"

The main soloist of the Lyceum, Nastya Makarevich, was made popular by her adoptive father, producer Alexei Makarevich, cousin of the famous Machinist Andrei Makarevich, ex-guitarist of the Resurrection band. It is his singer who considers her real father, so she changed her last name and patronymic, abandoning her father - journalist Alexander Kapralov, who left the family when the girl was 8 years old.

To help Nastya Makarevich, he took two of her classmates - Lena Perova and Izolda Ishkhanishvili. For the first time, schoolgirls took the stage in the TV show " morning Star with the song "One of Us" by ABBA in 1991. And then recording one album after another, performing together with the groups "Resurrection", "Time Machine", "ZZ Top" and even with Muslim Magomayev. The peak of fame happened in 1996 thanks to the hit "Autumn", written by the producer.

In 1997, Alexei Makarevich unexpectedly expelled Lena Perova from the composition, about which the singer said: “I left when I finally lost the desire to do this - 15 years to sing such nonsense.” In her place came Anna Pletneva, known today from the Vintage group. Four years later, Izolda Ishkhanishvili left the team, explaining this by her desire to take up her personal life. After the almost complete collapse of the "golden composition", Anastasia Makarevich has been the irreplaceable soloist of the Lyceum for 25 years now. Her partners often change, and their names are not remembered.

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Today the Lyceum star is 39 years old, she is married to a lawyer and has two sons.

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39-year-old Izolda Ishkhanishvili is far from show business. Lives in Switzerland, has a business in the field of luxury cosmetics. She is married to construction magnate Dmitry Desyatnikov, to whom she gave birth to a son in 2012.

After the Lyceum, Elena Perova tried to perform as part of other musical groups, wrote songs and soundtracks for films, hosted talk shows on TV, participated in other television projects, starred in TV shows.

Today she is 40 years old, she has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, car accidents, deprivation of rights, treatment in clinics and a return to television as the editor-in-chief of the directorate of music and entertainment programs on Channel One.