Reserve (group)

The group was founded in 1993-94 by members of the Leningrad Rock Club Sergey Bykov (a member of the Mail group ^[1] , who in the 80s played joint apartmentmates with Mike Naumenko and Viktor Tsoi ^[2] ) and Nail Kadyrov ( Cinema , Zoo , Various People ) ^{[3] [4]} . Peter Troshchenkov ( Aquarium , Picnic ) ^[5] and Sergey Ryzhenko ( Time Machine , DDT , Bravo ) ^[6] also took part in the work of the team.

Andrei Tropillo called the Reserve a continuation of the Zoo ^[6] . For continuation of the tradition, the leader of the Reserve, Sergei Bykov, was presented with a guitar by Mike Naumenko ^[7] .

In the 1990s, the group performs on the Old Arbat and becomes one of the local attractions ^[8] . In the 97th, Alexey Ionov (who used to play with Bykov in the Post ) comes to the team ^[9] . Since the end of the 90s, without stopping the usual speeches, the group revives the tradition of home stand ^[10] . Together with Oleg Kovriga and Sergey Letov , Bykov, as an eyewitness and participant, is interviewed about the phenomenon of apartment concerts ^[11] .

In 2001, the Bulls began to play the bass guitar in the Merry Pictures ^[12] .

In 2002, recorded a joint album of the Reserve and Umka ^{[13] [14] [15]} .

In 2005, the Reserve, along with the teams Chayf , DDT , Aquarium , Secret, and others. Participates in the recording of the disc "Mike - 50. Mike Naumenko's Birthday" ^[16]

In 2006, the record company “Nikitin” released the Reserve CD in the series “Catch the Mood of Rock-N-Roll” ^[17] . In a review of him, A. I. Mazhaev , a music critic of Play magazine, wrote that the Reserve had gone by car in time ^[18] .

After the death of Bykov in 2013, the Reserve, attracting famous musicians, records unreleased songs and makes memorable concerts ^{[19] [20] [6]} .

• On one of the performances of the Reserve was Armen Grigoryan . Listening to the band, he said: "They play Mike better than anyone ... including us." After that, the Reserve was invited to “warm up” the Crematorium . However, the tandem did not exist for a long time ^[21] .
• One of the band members composed a literary work “Life in the Preserve”, where he described the behind-the-scenes life of musicians, but later, for unknown reasons, removed it from the network ^[22] .

Although the Reserve did not often receive media attention, its musicians moved to more famous groups: Oleg Masaev - in Casual ^[23] , Yevgeny Nikonov - in Mongol Shuudan ^[24] , George Hentschel in Red Mold ^[25] , and Lev Kuznetsov - in Arbenin ^[26] .

In March 2016, the festival “Children of the Reserve” took place in Moscow, where the Reserve itself performed as a supergroup ^[27] .

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