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Yuri Loza, Valery Syutkin, Yuri Davydov— the “golden lineup” of the Zodchie group gathered for a single concert. The founder of Zodchikh and concurrently the president of the Starko pop stars football club, Yuri Davydov, who celebrated his 60th anniversary, remembered how it all began.

The appearance of Yuri Loza in Zodchikh in 1983 greatly changed the group’s music. Yura lit us up with fun, jokes, and he had a whole baggage of his songs. And when Valera Syutkin joined our team, the group took on a complete form. Each song had a theatrical setting. For example, the song “Give the People Beer” (a parody of the song John Lenon Power To The People - “Give power to the people”) we sang in chorus with the audience. And at the end of the act, several people brought bottled beer into the hall. At that time, the foamy drink was in terrible short supply, and the public immediately snapped up these bottles.

In the 80s we worked at the Tyumen Philharmonic. Probably, it was possible to get hooked in Moscow, but we were quite comfortable in Tyumen. In those days, there were tough campaigns against rock music and VIA, and we lay low “in the tundra.” And when the campaigning subsided, they “resurfaced” again. The Tyumen region, which then included Khanty-Mansiysk and the Yamalo-Nenets district, we all crawled on dogs, helicopters and even on our bellies. Through mud, snow, ice, water.

Once we flew on a Mi-6 helicopter from Tyumen to Noyabrsk. It was already getting dark. And the pilots asked us: “Guys, if we shut down now, then we won’t be able to take off in the dark - these are the rules. Therefore, a big request: we will sit down with working propellers and unload your equipment. You will press it with your bodies so that it does not scatter. And we will take off carefully." We unloaded everything, covered everything with our bodies, but missed Yuri Loza’s guitar. And she flew across the tundra. Loza rushed after her. The guitar flew under the train. Yura had to dive under this train. And in the morning of that day he bought himself a synthetic silver fur coat (at that time - the latest in fashion). He dived under the train wearing a silver fur coat and emerged wearing a black one. And part of the guitar body broke off when it hit the ground. At the same time, she continued to work and did not even lose track. And Loza still played it for a year and a half after that.

Yuri Loza, 1988. Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Polyakov

About “ideological” songs

We didn’t have to sing about the Komsomol, but we had one terrible song that we didn’t play on solo concerts, but it was perfect for special events. There were these words: “There are such evenings when, having sat around at a rest stop, geologists become quiet around the fire, embarrassed to meet each other’s eyes.” Depending on who we were speaking to, we simply changed the word “geologists” to “oil workers,” “polar explorers,” “taiga workers,” etc. The song was suitable for all occasions.

In those years, we had a whole system to protect ourselves from troubles from the authorities. For example, for every song with ideologically questionable lyrics, we had a different text in store. And besides, you could always come up with an excuse: “I forgot the words.” Or “I couldn’t sing a song about the Komsomol because my throat hurt, but the notes were high, they sang “The Raft” by Yuri Loza because it was in a comfortable tessitura.” “The raft,” by the way, once “dragged us to the bottom.” We showed the lyrics to the censors. And there was one woman on the commission who read it and said: “Where are you going to sail? What are these “previous mistakes” that are dragging you down?” And we canceled 30 concerts for which tickets had already been sold out - 16 in Novosibirsk and 14 in Omsk because I was careless (I thought that there was certainly no trouble to be expected here) to include “The Raft” in the official program of the group.

About life “at the junction of times”

In 1986, at the height of Prohibition in the USSR, we, as part of a large delegation, including “Time Machine,” went to the Days Soviet youth in the GDR. As soon as we checked into the hotel, all 200 people ran to buy alcohol. A huge line of Soviet youth gathered at the store selling alcohol closest to the hotel. Everyone is standing and waiting for something. We see through the glass doors how German sellers look at each other and fuss. Finally, a man speaking Russian came out of the store and asked: “The salespeople cannot understand why you are standing in line and not entering the store?” We have, Soviet people, there was a stereotype that if there is no one in the store, it means it is closed. No one even pulled the door handle, everyone thought it was closed.

In 1986, at the peak of its popularity, we purchased a color-music set somewhere “second-hand.” We were told that it was imported. And when we bought it, it turned out that it was made by the hands of our craftsmen from tourist pots, into which lamps from the landing lights of the Tu-134 aircraft were mounted. No one can defeat our people (laughs).

Already in the 90s, when people were no longer shot or imprisoned for such things, we had a song “Grandfather Lenin” with the text: “Grandfather died, but the cause lives on. It would be better the other way around!” And she was born after we, returning from a tour on the stage, at the Orsha station in Belarus, waited for a whole hour for the train and, having nothing to do, walked along the platform. On the station building we saw a huge memorial plaque stating that in 1897 and 1903 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin passed through Orsha station.

About the importance of football

In the 90s, everything changed dramatically - music, the system of concert work. When we are with Chris Kelmi We recorded the song “Closing the Circle”, we thought we were writing a hymn, but we wrote a requiem. While we were recording it, licking every note, somewhere in small basements the guys were creating new genre- “plywood pop”. And it already became clear that we would not return to the top. Perhaps the agony of “Zodchikh” would have lasted for several years if in 1991 the project of a football team of pop stars “Starko” had not appeared. Football, in a sense, caught up with me. The first team composition looked like this: Volodya Presnyakov, Dima Malikov, Vladimir Kuzmin, Alexander Barykin, Yuri Antonov etc. - that is, people are popular and know how to play football. As for guys like Mikhail Muromov, then paradoxes arose here. Misha, being at that time a very healthy and athletic guy, did not know how to play football so much that when playing in defense, he did not react to the attackers’ feints. And the attackers didn’t even know what to do with him. Muromov stood and looked at the ball. The ball rolled and he ran after it. It was impossible to push him away and few people managed to escape from him either.

About modern youth

“Starco” played his most memorable match in 1992 against the Italians, for whom he then played and Eros Ramazzotti, not very well known among us at that time. The journalists who met the Italian team at the airport did not even react to him. They were more interested Gianni Morandi, Pupo, Ricardo Fogli. Therefore, Eros, not recognized by anyone, sidled onto the bus. That match was very important for us - 25 thousand spectators came to Luzhniki, and it was the first public Starko game. So we came out to die and won 3-1.

In 2007, we came up with the World Football Championship among artists “Art Football”. This year it will be held for the 7th time. We dream of making an opening match on Red Square: a Russian team of politicians and pop stars against some foreign team. Today, when international relations are tense, the British, Germans, and even Australians are rushing to come to us for the World Cup like devastated people, I’m already silent about the Estonians and Poles. And I believe that we managed to lay our “brick of friendship” between peoples... I hope that Denis Matsuev, Edgard Zapashny, Ilya Averbukh, Viktor Zinchuk, Sergei Minaev, Pierre Narcisse, Garik Bogomazov (Dirty Rotten scammers"). We are waiting for football veterans Ruslan Nigmatulin, Sergei Kiryakov, Viktor Bulatov.

We are trying to rejuvenate the team, but now it is difficult to find young people who are famous and have the skills to play football. A layer of people playing football was washed away. In our generation, almost everyone more or less knew how to play football and some musical instrument.

June 1 is celebrated annually as International Children's Day. The decision to hold it was made back in 1925 at a conference in Geneva. Since then, in many countries around the world, various charity events and children's parties have been held on this day. Basically, the matter is limited to holidays. I watched the news about how this day went in Russia in 2010. In Tver, a concert was held in the city garden. In Krasnoyarsk, orphans were shown one movie for free. In Arkhangelsk, mothers picketed the city hall due to the lack of places in kindergartens. The picture remains virtually unchanged from year to year.

But there are events of a completely different plan. Interesting for children and adults. Sports festival, concert, distribution of personalized certificates for treatment. Attracting reputable sponsors and real help to sick children.

I want to tell you about one such action. On June 1, 2008, politicians and artists played football at the Moscow Lokomotiv Stadium. Take a closer look at this photo. I’m sure you know many of the participants in the match by sight or have heard their names. Famous people spent their personal time and energy to help children.

What is the essence of the action? Football with the participation of pop stars and politics is a well-attended event. Tickets to the stadium are on sale. All proceeds, plus help from sponsors, go to sick children. Not in the form of abstract injections into funds medical institutions, but addressed. By last name. The Ministry of Health has lists of children in need of complex and expensive treatment. The funds raised during the “Flag of Good” campaign, as this event is called, are used to purchase certificates. Each certificate is personalized and covers the cost of treatment for a specific child. Some of the recipients are in the front row in the title photo.

The ideological inspirer and founder of the action is Yuri Davydov. Do you remember the show group “Zodchiye”, which filled the halls during perestroika times? In addition to the acutely political orientation of the songs (“Grandfather died, but the matter lives on, it would be better if it were the other way around” - this is about Lenin), the group also produced a very interesting musical material. IN different time Yuri Loza, Valery Syutkin, Nikolai Koltsov, and Alexander Shevchenko came out of Yuri Davydov’s group “Zodchie”.

Later, when “Zodchie” ceased to exist, Yuri Davydov assembled a football team of pop stars under the peculiar and ambiguous name “Starco”. It was he, and not Yuri Loza, as it is written on Wikipedia. Those who are younger will read this name as “team of stars.” The older generation will certainly catch the association with the popular Soviet-era vodka variety, Starka. However, irony and self-irony - business card Yura.

Here he is at the goal in a yellow jersey - the permanent goalkeeper and captain of the Starko team. His longtime friend Chris Kelmi is with the ball. Chris's real name is Anatoly Arievich Kalinkin. Wikipedia is again inaccurate.

Politicians have their own team - “Rosich”, which is headed by Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich. Often “Rosich” and “Starko” play against each other, or with regional teams of officials in regional centers. But this time, in 2008, they united to confront the team of Italian pop stars “Nazionale Italiana Cantanti”. Translated from Italian - “national singing room”. Riccardo Fogli, Pupo and other celebrities flew to Moscow specially to take part in the match. The Italians also received political support - the Italian Ambassador to Russia, Vittorio Claudio Surdo, entered the field. He is in the center of the title photo, wearing glasses, to the right of the flag.

The match took place with frequent substitutions. There were a lot of people who wanted to take to the field. The “substitutes” on the edge of the field were attacked by journalists. While the Secretary of State of the Union State Pal Palych Borodin is trotting towards the center of the field, Valery Syutkin, who left the game, is already giving an interview.

But the Italians had almost no spare ones. I was surprised by the aged Riccardo Fogli (at the baseline), who spent the entire match on the field, and then also jumped on stage like a young man. Excellent physical form for 60 years and counting! The Italians were unable to field their goalkeeper either. Their gate was defended by a "rented" Sergei Ovchinnikov . He stood honestly, to the death, and saved the guests' goal more than once. The two-time champion of Russia, repeatedly named the best goalkeeper of the year, goalkeeper of the Russian national team, the Benfica and Porto clubs, Sergei “Boss” Ovchinnikov cannot play differently. Here he is in the picture, putting the ball into play.

Ours couldn’t score for a long time, although they attacked more often. With the ball - Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov. Vyacheslav Fetisov runs into the penalty area. What, does anyone else not know this person? I'm at a loss as to how to present it more precisely. Legend of Soviet and world hockey. Multiple world, European and Olympic Games. Winner of the Canada Cup and Stanley Cup. Member of the symbolic “Team of the Century” compiled by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. Currently involved in politics. Member of the Federation Council, Chairman of the Sports Commission. Here's the biography!

The match was judged by the well-known Russian international referee Valentin Ivanov. It was he who showed 16 yellow cards at the 2006 World Cup in the Netherlands-Portugal match, 4 of which turned red. FIFA President Sepp Blatter first criticized Ivanov's work, and then apologized - the players deserved the punishments they received. But this is only one episode of his career. In general, Valentin Ivanov is a highly respected international referee with extensive refereeing experience, the record holder of the Russian Championship among referees - he has 180 games to his name.

One woman also played for ours - Olga Kremleva. A multiple national champion in women's football, she was active in our team's attack (in the center of the next photo), creating constant problems for Sergei Ovchinnikov.

But the Italians scored first. The captain of the “national singing group” Pupo took advantage of the mistake of our defenders and fired into the far corner. Yuri Davydov was powerless to do anything.

And a little later, Yura suffered another misfortune. He suddenly limped, hopped on one leg and left the field. Doctors, transport, diagnosis - Achilles rupture. Then there was a complex operation, six months on crutches and now, thank God, Yura is completely healthy and again takes part in charity matches for the Starko team.

Yuri Davydov's place in our goal was taken by Major General Sergei Goncharov. The attack was intensified by the “chocolate hare of all Rus'” Pierre Narcisse (can you find it in the picture or point with your finger?) and Anvar Sattarov (“Capture Group”). On the right flank of the attack, actor Ilya Glinnikov throws up his hands: “Well, where are you, hare?”

Pierre Narcisse was unable to score and expresses his misfortune graphically. Riccardo Fogli looks at him in surprise.

But our persistence was rewarded. First, Anvar Sattarov scored with a precise shot into the top nine, and then Ilya Glinnikov threw the ball over “Boss”.

As usual, after the game the players swapped jerseys. Due to this not very hygienic custom, it is difficult to make out in the final formation who played for whom. But we'll try anyway. From left to right: Nikolai Trubach (“Blue Moon” with Boris Moiseev), Pierre Narcisse, Valery Yarushin (with glasses, leader and founder of the mega-popular group “Ariel” in Soviet times), Sergei Ovchinnikov in a pink T-shirt. Dmitry Kharatyan (what else needs to be said about People's Artist?) and Natalya Davydova are the permanent leading shares. Natalia performs a huge amount of work as the head of a charity program. To her right is Valery Syutkin (“Just What You Need”) in a blue shirt and jacket, blond Chris Kelmi in an Italian T-shirt. With a crutch - Yuri Davydov, president of the Starko football club. Behind him is Sergei Goncharov, who replaced him in goal. To the right in blue jerseys are our players Alexander Shevchenko and Alexander Ivanov (“God, what a trifle!”). Between them is Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov presents a certificate to a relative of a sick child.

While they were preparing concert venue, the artists discussed the completed match. Or they were just talking about life, I wasn’t listening. Sergei Krylov is instilling something in Yura Davydov and Alexander Ivanov. Behind them is Irakli (London-Paris).

Yuri Davydov and Alexander Ivanov.

The concert was attended by Riccardo Fogli (singing his megahit “Malinconia” in the picture below), Valery Syutkin, Rishat Shafi, Victor Zinchuk, Alexander Ivanov, Neri Marcore, Leandro Barsotti, Pupo.

Alexander Ivanov sang his hit “God, what a trifle!”

Dmitry Kharatyan walked everywhere with a protest flag.

Cheerful friends. A crutch is not a reason for sadness. From left to right: Dmitry Kharatyan, Chris Kelmi, Alexander Ivanov, Yuri Davydov.

The same with Natalya Davydova (left) and Olga Kremleva.

Davydovs with Riccardo Fogli. The Italian pop superstar of the 80s was willing to be photographed. Look how correctly he hugs a woman. Even though Riccardo is well acquainted with the Davydov family.

Pupo also willingly took pictures with friends, acquaintances and friends of friends.

And he even sang with Sergei Krylov.

The famous virtuoso drummer also took part in the concert Rishat Shafi. The world-famous drummer, leader of the first Turkmen pop group “Gunesh”, Rishat was wonderful person and a great friend. Unfortunately, last November at the age of 57, he died suddenly of a heart attack right at the Starco team training. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov personally addressed the wife of the deceased with a request to bury the musician in his homeland as a national hero.

At the end of the concert, the musicians jointly performed Chris Kelmi’s song “Closing the Circle.”

Hundreds of balloons flew over the stadium as a symbol of childhood dreams, joy and happiness.

Let’s hope that the destinies of the children who received help during the “Flag of Good” campaign will also take off, to achievements and happiness.

And on June 12, 2010, at the same Moscow Lokomotiv stadium there will be a festive celebration on Russia Day. The extensive program includes performances by children's groups, a Russian rap festival, performances by clowns and circus acts E. Zapashny. Well, of course it will take place Soccer game“Politics and pop stars” versus “Business and football stars.” And in conclusion, as usual, there is a gala concert.

Come! Your money spent on tickets will go to help sick children.

"Architects"- Soviet rock band formed in 1980.

Story

The founder of the group, Yuri Davydov, started out in school groups, but took up music more seriously in the mid-70s, forming the Guslyary group, which was popular among students of the Moscow Architectural Institute. The group often performed with local stars - “Time Machine” and “Danger Zone”, played at dances, participated in various student competitions and traveled abroad a couple of times with the so-called “friendship trains”.

The amateur stage in the history of the “Guslyars” ended in 1980, when, in the wake of the “Olympic Thaw,” they had the opportunity to legalize and, having changed their name to “Zodchie,” got a job at the Tyumen Philharmonic. The composition of the group changed regularly. Clear progress began only after 1983, when the group added guitarist and singer Yuri Loza, who came from the Integral group, whose songs (including material from the acclaimed tape album “Journey to Rock and Roll”) made up the lion’s share of their new repertoire.

In 1985, at the invitation of Yuri Loza, Valery Syutkin, who had previously played in the Moscow group Telefon, joined the group.

The most stable and strong composition was formed by the beginning of 1986, when the “Architects” came under the wing of the Ryazan Philharmonic. The group included Yuri Davydov (bass, cello, vocals), Yuri Loza (guitar, vocals), Andrey Artyukhov (guitar, vocals), Valery Syutkin (bass, guitar, vocals), Alexander Belonosov (who started in the Moscow group "Forum" , and also recorded with the group “DK”; keyboards), Andrey Rodin (violin, vocals) and Gennady Gordeev (worked in the VIA “Six Young”; drums).

Their appearance on the TV program “Morning Mail” with parodies of Italian pop stars immediately made the group a name. The subsequent series of songs by Yuri Loza (“Mannequin”, “Autumn” and others) and Syutkin (“Time of Love”, “Sleep, Baby”, and shown on TV “Bus 86” (“The Ballad of Public Transport”)) brought “Zodchim” is famous all over the Union. Based on the results of 1986, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper named them among the five most popular groups countries.

In October 1987, after a tour of Ukraine, which ended with a concert in Kyiv, Yuri Loza left the group. The performance of “Zodchikh” at the “Rock-Panorama’87” festival in the same December was unsuccessful, and unrest began in the group. In 1988 Belonosov left her, whose place was later taken by Egor Irodov (keyboards). Recorded in 1988 and released by Melodiya a year later, the album “Garbage from the Hut” also did not add to the group’s popularity.

In 1989, Valery Syutkin also left the group and formed his own trio, Fan-O-Man. His place was taken by Alexander Martynov, who had a good voice but was not so spectacular, but the lack of new ideas among the “Architects” and the arrival of the next generation of musicians on the stage ultimately summed up their existence.

Composition of the group

At different times the group included:

• Yuri Loza - vocals, guitar, songwriter (1983 - 87)
• Valery Syutkin - vocals, guitar, bass, drums, songwriter (1985 - 89)
• Andrey Artyukhov - guitar, vocals (1984 - 90)
• Nikolay Koltsov - guitar, vocals (1980 - 84)
• Alexander Belonosov - keyboards, vocals (1980 - 88)
• Yuri Davydov - bass, vocals, cello
• Andrey Rodin - violin, vocals
• Gennady Gordeev - drums (1980 - 90)
• Leonid Lipnitsky - keyboards (1988 - 1989)
• Boris Nosachev - guitar (1990 - 91)
• Egor Irodov - keyboards (1989 - 91)
• Anatoly Belchikov - drums (1990 - 91)
• Alexander Martynov - vocals (1989 - 90)
• Alexander Shevchenko - vocals (1989 - 91)
• Valery Anokhin - vocals (1990 - 91)
• Pavel Shcherbakov - vocals (1990 - 91)

Discography

• “Variety Lights” (with Yuri Loza) (1984)
• "Ecology" (1987)
• "Child of Urbanism" (1987)
• "Episode Five" (other name - "Not bad") (1987)
• “Concert in Tallinn” (1987)
• “Garbage from the Hut” (1989, 1990 - vinyl disc at the Melodiya company)
• "Pour" (1991)
• “Songs 1984-1993” (1996, collection)
• “In the Mood for Love” (2004, collection)

• According to the leader of the group, Yuri Davydov, the composition “Demonstration”, which opens the album “Garbage from the Hut”, contains a recording of a speech by Leonid Brezhnev ( « Dear comrades, we don’t have time to shake things up. We have to work, we have to get things done. Very precise, succinct, timeless words. That's how it should be").
• The songs “Child of Urbanism” and “Metalist Petrov” were heard in episodes of the “Vzglyad” program. Valery Syutkin was the soloist in both, but the latter was included in the album “Garbage from the Hut” without his vocals.

The founder of the group, Yuri Davydov, started out in school groups, but took up music more seriously in the mid-70s, forming the Guslyary group, popular among students. The group often performed with local stars - “Time Machine” and “Danger Zone”, played at dances, participated in various student competitions and traveled abroad a couple of times with the so-called “friendship trains”.

The amateur stage in the history of the “Guslyars” ended in 1980, when, in the wake of the “Olympic Thaw,” they had the opportunity to legalize and, changing their name to “Zodchie,” got a job at the Tyumen Philharmonic. The composition of the group changed regularly. Obvious progress began only after 1983, when Zodchikh welcomed guitarist and singer Yuri Loza, who had come from the group Integral, whose songs (including material from the acclaimed tape album “Journey to Rock and Roll”) made up the lion’s share of their new repertoire .

The most stable and strong composition was formed by the beginning of 1986, when the “Architects” came under the wing of the Ryazan Philharmonic. The group included Yuri Davydov (bass, cello, vocals), Yuri Loza (guitar, vocals), Andrey Artyukhov (guitar, vocals), Valery Syutkin (bass, guitar, vocals), Alexander Belonosov (who started in the Moscow group "Forum" , and also recorded with the group “DK”; keyboards), Andrey Rodin (violin, vocals) and Gennady Gordeev (worked in the VIA “Six Young”; drums).

Their appearance in the television program "Morning Mail" with parodies of musical phenomenon entitled " Italian pop"immediately made the group a name. The subsequent series of songs by Yuri Loza (“Mannequin”, “Autumn” and others) and Syutkin (“Time of Love”, “Sleep, Baby”, and shown on TV “Bus 86” (“The Ballad of Public Transport”)) brought “Zodchim” is famous all over the Union. At the end of 1986, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper named them among the five most popular groups in the country. Davydov and Syutkin also participated in the filming of the sensational video “Closing the Circle”

In October 1987, after a tour of Ukraine, which ended with a concert in Kyiv, Yuri Loza left the group. The performance of “Zodchikh” at the “Rock-Panorama’87” festival in the same December was unsuccessful, and unrest began in the group. In 1988 Belonosov left her, whose place was later taken by Egor Irodov (keyboards). Recorded in 1988 and released by Melodiya a year later, the album “Garbage from the Hut” did not save the situation.

In 1989, Valery Syutkin also left the group and put together the unsuccessful project “Fan-O-Man”, after which he brilliantly fit into “Bravo”. His place was taken by Alexander Martynov, who had a good voice but was not so spectacular, but the lack of new ideas among the “Architects” and the arrival of the next generation of musicians on the stage ultimately summed up their existence.

A little later, from the fragments of “Zodchikh”, the pop-rock group “Deja Vu” arose, led by Alexander Shevchenko (was a session soloist on the album “Trash from the Hut”), which promoted the vocalist, but was never able to achieve much success in show business.