Egor Letov ENGLISH

Yegor Letov wears glasses due to poor eyesight. But sometimes he wears his legendary black round glasses. Height is 5'6 feet. Long dark hair and a leather jacket with a pair of pins with punk symbols.

Born September 10. Since childhood, Letov listened to a lot of good music, supplied by his older brother, Sergei, and read a lot of smart books—in other words, he filled himself with information. Now he physically is in age around the beginning of the mature period, but mentally smart. He feels lonely, because no one understands him, or his friends are forcibly taken away by the authorities. When there is no reaction to his work, he usually leaves or begins to laugh at the audience. Loves the "Sex Pistols" band. He was diagnosed with "sluggish schizophrenia". The younger brother of saxophonist Sergei, with whom they sometimes wrote joint songs later. Lyrics are quite abstract.

True name is Igor Fedorowicz Letov. He is from Russia. Egor Letov is an alias, He had chosen this alias, because he thought it was ridiculous and perfectly fit his character. He is the founder, leader, and sole permanent member of the band "Civil Defense" (or "Grazhdanskaya Oborona"). He records all songs and albums in his own apartment, which he calls "the place where the" GrOb-records" label was founded. He sings songs, although he considers himself only a poet, who puts poems on a music.
He is considered the founder of Siberian punk. But he also loves experimenting, creating noise or industrial music.
"Civil Defense" is founded in 1984, but Letov's friend Kuzma was sent to the army, and Letov himself was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he took dozens of unknown things. Even in the hospital, he continued to write poetry. Some time after hospital, Letov was essentially on the run. He traveled across the Soviet Union, living with hippies in basements. After this, some time "Civil Defense" was consisted of Letov only. But then, in band appeared woman named Yanka and man named Manager. It's only name, not position. Swears only in songs to avoid appearing on TV. He sing what he felt. He is absolutely sincere. He sing what he think is necessary, and indeed, there's a lot of pain and a lot of truth in the songs.