Delores Carter FICTION WRITING FICTION WRITING 274 EXAM Zemlyane See Tfd Russian 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 See Tfd Russian lit he grass at home became the first official anthem of the Russian space program 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 In 1987 Zemlyane opened for Uriah Heep at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow The band went on hiatus by the beginning of the next decade but was revived by Sergey Skachkov in 1994 with 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 In 2015 Zemlyane supported annexation of Crimea and gave a concert in Sevastopol which was annexed by Russia It supported the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Presidential Administration of Russia put the band on the list of singers who were recommended to be invited to state sponsored events Guitarist Sergey Kolchin died on 15 June 2023 at the age of 45 Discography FULL DISCOGRAPHY OF OFFICIAL RELEASES AND MAGNIT ALBUMS 1979 EP 1980 LP 1981 82 LIVE 1981 1982 Magnit Album tape 1981 81 Magnit Album tape 1982 82 Magnit Album tape 1982 1982 Magnit Album tape 1982 5 December 1982 Magnit Album tape 1982 1982 Magnit Album tape 1982 EP 1983 EP 1983 EP 1983 Magnit Album tape 1984 Magnit Album tape 1984 85 Magnit Album tape 1985 20 02 85 Magnit Album tape 1987 Magnit Album tape 1987 MC LP 1988 EP 1988 90 Magnit Album tape 1988 90 Magnit Album tape 1989 92 Magnit Album tape 1989 92 Magnit Album tape 1994 best 2CD NP Records 1995 best CD MC ZeKo Records 1995 best CD ZeKo Records 1998 remake MC CD CD MediaRecords ZeKo Records 2000 SOS CD ZeKo Records 2002 Grand Collection best CD 2003 best CD Grand Records 2003 best CD 2008 CD Navigator Records 2008 2 February 2008 2CD 2DVD GMC 2009 SUPERMAX Kurt Hauenstein CD 2010 CD 2014 CD CD Maximum 2 References External links Official Zemlyane website in Russian Official discography Zemlyane in Russian Zemlyane discography at Discogs Zemlyane at IMDb