Zoopark

Zoopark (Russian: Зоопарк) was one of the founding rock groups which began the Russian rock movement. The group was founded in 1980. It consisted of Maik Naumenko and a varied group of artists. The first album recorded by Maik was "All Brothers and Sisters" with Boris Grebenshikov in 1978. They recorded on the banks of the Neva River in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a "choire" of homeless people playing percussion on metal cans. Maik Naumenko was a rock outcast, concentrating his work on electrified hard-core blues. His inspirations included American acts such as "T-Rex" and "B. B. King". Maik died in 1991[2], cutting his career short and relegating him to the pantheon of largely unknown Russian Rock artists. The influence of Zoopark is often overlooked by fans of Russian Rock, however, Zoopark remains the group of choice for the connoisseur of hard-core electric Russian Rock-N-Roll.