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| Origin | Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| Genres | Alternative rock, new wave, post-punk, jazz rock, punk jazz, freak folk, experimental rock, art rock |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Members | Leonid Fedorov Oleg Garkusha Viktor Bondarik Dmitriy Ozersky Nikolay Rubanov Boris Shaveinikov Mikhail Kolovsky Vladimir Volkov Yuriy Parfyonov |
| Past members | Evgeniy Chumichev Sergey Gubenko Sergey Lobachev Arkadiy Volk Sergey Rogozhin Kirill Miller Igor Cheridnik Nikolay Fedorovich Igor Skaldin Pavel Litvinov Dmitriy Matkovsky Vladimir Vesyolkin Evgeniy Dyatlov |
| Website | http://www.auktyon.ru/ |
Auktyon (Russian: АукцЫон, pronounced [ɐʊktsɨˈon]. Auktsyon) is a Russian alternative rock band from Saint Petersburg.
The band was founded by Leonid Fyodorov at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad.[1] Though they originally played post-punk and new wave, the group came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature.[1]
Auktyon was particularly popular from 1987 through 1995, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for Leningrad.[1] The group continues to play together and to release new albums. They toured the United States in 2006[2] in support of their first US release, the album Pioneer. The group returned to the US in 2008 when they released the album Girls Sing.[3][4][5]
- ^ a b c Beumers, Birgit (2005). Pop Culture Russia!. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-459-8.
- ^ Mitter, Siddhartha (24 March 2006). "By way of Russia, art-rock for art's sake." Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts. pg. D.1
- ^ Vigil, Delfin (27 March 2008). "Auktyon. Eclectic band formed in the former Soviet Union and, 20 years later, strange, loud rock plays a key role in the group's musical stylings." San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California. pg. G.4
- ^ Drozdowski, Ted (18 March 2008). "Auktyon - CD Reviews". The Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
- ^ Horowitz, Steve (31 March 2008). "Auktyon: Girls Sing". PopMatters. Retrieved 2012-09-19.