Leader of the ULME group

Group leader" ULME". Born and lives in St. Petersburg. Over the years, he feels less and less inclined to express his personal experiences and emotions in words, he puts them entirely into music. By nature, a logical-intuitive introvert. He studied at music school in piano, graduated from the pop-jazz school in composition. He learned to play the guitar on his own while studying at the Faculty of Geography of St. Petersburg University. He played in the groups "Polygon", "White Noise Generator", "Ashes", " something else"," Cousin twins ". In 1995 he created the group" ULME". The author of the music of almost all songs" ULME", and the lyrics of some of them. Currently plays the instruments Roland T20 (since 1992) and Yamaha W5 (since 2005). He prefers to listen to Uriah Heep, Queen, Rush, King Krimson, highly appreciates the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Angelo Badolamenti loves game types sports, is a fan of Zenit. He enjoys playing hockey, tennis, table tennis, football, billiards, chess. Favorite writers - Stephen King, Haruki Murakami. He often rereads the works of John Fowles, Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, Arturo Perez-Reverte.

Philosopher, musician, composer, naturalist, poet.

Philosopher, musician, composer, naturalist, poet. Arriving in Wanderings, compressing and stretching time and space. His Listener, Contemplator and Researcher is a Personality with an extraordinary and independent outlook on life, with experience in the perception and reproduction of musical texts and/or his own set of Wanderings. Many generations of aristocratic ancestors dictate to him the instinctive path of Service and Creation. His musical images were influenced by the work of Manfred Mann, Emerson and the Yes band, films by David Lynch and Andrei Tarkovsky, music by Angelo Badolamenti, lyrics by Stephen King, years of communication with the domestic rock community, communal apartments and courtyards of St. Petersburg, forest roads, thickets of raspberries and nettles of suburban holiday villages and sands Central Asia. His world is December snow under a street lamp and the twilight of the studio, random photographs, sun glare on the Ladoga water, the smell of wild rosemary, old books, rosin and apples, dusty furniture, hay and unrepaired porches, Ceylon tea and forest litter. The bohemian life of the city at night and the pensive numbness of the passengers of the last electric trains, the hustle and bustle, the desperate existence outside the state and social regulations of existence with endless loyalty to the individual scenarios, strategies and creative acts of fellow travelers in our world overflowing with formalities and standards.

To become world champion, twice European champion and twice vice-champion Olympic Games, one must have a strong body and the will to win. To respond to a request for help and give away the most precious thing for an athlete - an Olympic medal, you need to have a big heart.

The Polish discus thrower Piotr Malakhovsky has both.

A few hours after Malakhovskiy won his second Olympic silver in the discus throw at the Rio 2016 Olympics, the mother of a two-year-old boy wrote to him on Facebook asking for help in her grief.

The boy has a rare form of eye cancer - retinablastoma, which develops only in children under 5 years old.

This disease is treated in only one clinic in the world - in New York.

Malakhovskiy immediately answered his mother and helped as best he could.

On his Facebook, he announced an auction for the sale of his brand new Rio 2016 Olympic medal in order to raise the missing amount for treatment - a third of the money was raised by a charitable foundation.

Malakhovskiy wrote: "The dream of every athlete is Olympic medal. Of course, the most expensive medal is gold. I did everything in my power, but only earned silver. But fate gave me a chance to increase the value of this silver.

In Rio, I fought for Olympic gold. Today I am fighting for a much more valuable thing - for the health of this beautiful boy."

And within one week, the auction ended successfully. There were Poles who bought the Malakhovsky medal for the necessary amount of money. Dominika and Sebastian Kulchik and Piotr Malakhovsky gave the boy a chance to recover.

Malakhovsky: "My dears, we did it. Today my medal is worth much more than a week ago. It is worth the life and health of little Olek. This is our common success!"

Yes, a big heart can do a lot of good, especially when combined with strong body and spirit.

Respect, Peter!

Vasily PARNYAKOV

Born on January 20, 1961 in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the pop-jazz school in composition, the Faculty of Geography of St. Petersburg University.
Starting from 1979, he played in the student rock bands Polygon, White Noise Generator, Pepel, Museum of 30 Coins. Since 1992, he also played in the Cousin Twins group.

He worked as a teacher of sociology at a medical school, where in 1986 he met a student at the school, Svetlana Surganova. In 1988, they created the group "Something else", which existed until 1994. In this group, Peter was a keyboardist, vocalist, author of music for a significant part of the band's songs. In particular, he owns the music for the songs “Save my shadow”, “In spite of the gloomy Decembers”, “When you get tired”, “Do not be afraid, dear”, performed by Svetlana Surganova in different years.

Svetlana Surganova recalls:
“Two meetings, in fact, influenced my future fate and retrained me from a pediatrician to a musician. The first meeting took place when I was still studying at a medical school, and it was a meeting with Peter Malakhovsky. There is such a figure in St. Petersburg, in addition to being an interesting musician, songwriter, he is a biologist by training. A person who toils all his life, hesitates all his life, cannot stick to one of the shores all his life, and he is tossed between biology and music. At that moment, when I studied at the school, he taught social science there, or geography ... well, that's not the point. He saw me, grabbed a stranglehold (...) This is a man who simply took and predetermined my future fate. Despite the fact that I graduated with honors from a medical school, despite the fact that I later graduated from the Medical Pediatric Academy, I still went into music. Because he always convinced me that I was basically good at it. And in the end, he convinced me."
(From an interview with O2-TV, September 2005)

With the formation of the Night Snipers group, Svetlana's cooperation with Pyotr Malakhovsky and his musical groups was significantly reduced, but some interaction continued. Peter participated in the recording of several compositions of the album "Baby Talk", in 1996 he traveled with the Snipers to Denmark. During his work as the musical manager of the Dostoevsky club, he helped organize a number of performances by the Night Snipers in this club.

“This album (i.e. “Baby Talk”) as a whole is our feasible gratitude to those guys who collaborated with us on the very best early stages. And the first person in this business is, of course, Pyotr Malakhovsky. This is the leader of the "ULME" group, in fact, the same person who lent his mighty shoulder and thanks to whom we recorded our first joint things. These were the songs "Summer", "Frontier", "White People", "You will leave".
(from the interview "I'll sing to you with my classical soprano", 2000)

In 1995, Peter created the group "Ulme", ​​which exists to this day. Vocalist, keyboardist, author of music and lyrics for most of Ulme's songs.
She is one of the leaders of the production center "April", the organizer of the St. Petersburg rock festivals "Baltic Spring", "Indian Summer", "April Drive", the festival of female rock vocals "Queen of the Night".