Igor Romanov Boris Aksenov Pavel Borisov Boris Dolgikh Gennadiy Martov Sergey Vasiliev Yuriy Babenko Aleksandr Krivtsov Georgiy Tonkelidi Andrey Kruglov Nikolay Kudryavtsev Viktor Kudryavtsev Veronika Stepanova Yuriy Starchenko Sergey Kolchin
Zemlyane (Russian: Земляне, lit. 'Earthlings') is a Soviet and later Russian rock band, formed in Leningrad in 1978. Most of their lyrics deal with risk, courage, and masculinity.
In 2009, Zemlyane's 1980s hit "Trava u doma" (Russian: «Трава у дома», lit. 'Тhe grass at home') became the first official anthem of the Russian space program.[1]
Biography
Zemlyane was formed in 1968 by students of Leningrad Radiopolytechnical College. In 1978 Zemlyane stopped performing on stage for several months for reasons of reorganization and rest.
Their former administrator Andrey Bolshev and drummer of rock band April, Vladimir Kiselev (ru), decided to take advantage of this situation. They put together totally different musicians passing them off as real Zemlyane. Protests from the original Zemlyane rock band were completely ignored. The accession of the Soviet Union to the Universal Copyright Convention, which became effective on 27 May was formal and no one dared to sue for copyright violation or infringement. Thus, in 1979 two groups of musicians performed under the same name: Zemlyane led by Myasnikov (keyboards) and Zemlyane promoted by Kiselev and Bolshev.
The band went on hiatus by the beginning of the next decade, but was revived by Sergey Skachkov in 1994 with a relatively new lineup. A copyright dispute between Skachkov and Kiselev arose when Kiselev (as producer) created a band of young musicians, unrelated to old Zemlyane, which used Zemlyane's name and performed its old hits. The dispute was eventually settled in 2009 in favor of Skachkov.
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