Кино (Kino, Russian for "cinema" or "movie") was a Soviet
rock band formed by
Виктор Цой (Viktor Tsoi) in Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg). They were one of the most famous Soviet
new wave bands of the 1980s. The band was formed by Tsoi, Aleksei Rybin, and Oleg Valinskiy in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg) as a
punk rock band
Garin i giperboloidy (
Гарин и гиперболоиды) (after a novel by Aleksey Tolstoy, Giperboloid inzhenera Garina, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin). A year later the name of the band was changed to
Кино (often st…
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