Nochnye Snaipery Ночные Снайперы | |
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 Concert in Toronto (May 2018) | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Real Records |
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| Website | snipers.net |
Nochnye Snaipery (Russian: Ночные Снайперы, lit. 'Night Snipers') is a Russian rock group. It was founded in 1993 as an acoustic female duo of Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova. Arbenina and Surganova played guitar and violin respectively, sharing the vocal and songwriting duties evenly, eventually adding amplification to the band. Since its inception, the band has participated in a variety of Russian musical festivals — from the underground (such as Babye Leto and Moguchaya Kuchka) to the major events (Nashestvie, Maxidrom, Krylya), as well as touring extensively domestically and abroad.
The band's best known singles are "Tridtsat Pervaya Vesna" ("31st Spring"), "Rubezh" ("Frontier"), "Stolitsa" ("Capital"), "Asfalt" ("Asphalt"), and "Aktrisa" ("Actress"). The majority of the songs in the band's repertoire is written by Arbenina and Surganova, but some use the poetry of such famous authors as Joseph Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova, and Federico García Lorca.
In 2002, Svetlana Surganova left the band to create her own group Surganova i Orkestr ("Surganova and Orchestra"), and Arbenina remained as Nochnye Snaipery's lead vocalist.[1]