1. In 1990, after their high-profile concert at the Luzhniki Stadium, Viktor Tsoi briefly relocated to Latvia with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan to work on the band's next album.
26 Facts About Viktor Tsoi
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Two months after the concert, Viktor Tsoi died in a car collision.
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Viktor Tsoi is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of rock music in Russia and is credited with popularizing the genre throughout the Soviet Union.
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Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was born on 21 June 1962, in a maternity hospital on Kuznetsovskaya Street in Leningrad.
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Viktor Tsoi was the only child of Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi, a Russian schoolteacher, and Robert Maximovich Tsoi, a Soviet Korean engineer from Kyzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan, where his Korean parents had been exiled after Stalin's 1937 deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union.
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The family's Korean ancestry can be traced back to Songjin, Hamgyong, Korea, where Viktor Tsoi's great-grandfather Choi Yong-nam was born in 1893.
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Viktor Tsoi grew up in the vicinity of the Moskovsky Victory Park.
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For some time, Viktor Tsoi studied at a nearby school on Frunze Street, where his mother worked.
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Viktor Tsoi was fond of martial arts and often sparred "in Chinese" with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan.
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Later, after a solo concert by Grebenshchikov, they met up and Viktor Tsoi played two of his songs to him.
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At the Leningrad Rock Club, Viktor Tsoi played as a solo artist supported by members of the band Aquarium.
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The open political climate under glasnost allowed Viktor Tsoi to make Gruppa Krovi, his most political album, yet it allowed him to record a sound of music that no one before him had been able to play.
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Viktor Tsoi said that he enjoyed the work and he needed the money to support the band, as they still received no government support and their albums were copied and passed around the nation via magnitizdat free of charge.
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In 1988, Viktor Tsoi starred as the protagonist in The Needle, directed by Rashid Nugmanov and written by Aleksandr Baranov and Bakhyt Kilibayev.
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Viktor Tsoi decides to help her quit and fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
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Viktor Tsoi was nominated for an award for his role in the film.
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The investigation concluded that Viktor Tsoi had fallen asleep while driving, possibly due to fatigue; he had not consumed alcohol for at least 48 hours before his death.
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The death of Viktor Tsoi was a shock to many fans, with some even committing suicide.
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Viktor Tsoi means more to the young people of our nation than any politician, celebrity or writer.
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Viktor Tsoi is the only rocker who has no difference between his image and his real life, he lived the way he sang.
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Viktor Tsoi lived a poor life, with Marianna saying that they could not even afford a proper wedding dress.
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Viktor Tsoi previously worked in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, but after the authorities found out he was working illegally, he was sent to Moscow.
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Viktor Tsoi later fell in love with Razlogova and separated from Marianna.
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Portraits of Viktor Tsoi are displayed today in many places around Russia, from graffiti on the fences of Saint Petersburg to an entire wall dedicated to Viktor Tsoi in a bylane of the famous Arbat Street in Moscow, where fans still gather to remember their hero.
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On 15 August 2020, the 30th anniversary of Viktor Tsoi's death was marked.
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The day before, a 4-metre tall monument dedicated to Viktor Tsoi was erected in St Petersburg in his memory.