1. "Cinema"
Victor Tsoy

2. “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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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”.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. “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.

10. 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».

11. Thanks for attention