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Гражданская Оборона

A Soviet and Russian rock group, founded on November 8, 1984, in Omsk by Egor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinov. The collective's music at the initial stage represented punk rock and post-punk with a strong garage influence, which remained throughout their entire career; by the end of the 1980s, it evolved into avant-garde hardcore punk with elements of noise rock, and in the 1990s, it shifted towards psychedelic rock and shoegaze. Grazhdanskaya Oborona was one of the most influential punk rock groups in the USSR and Russia. The band broke up in 2008 after the death of Egor Letov.