Peter Malakhovsky - band leader, keys, vocals. Great Sniper Encyclopedia

Born on January 20, 1961 in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the pop-jazz school, class of composition, Faculty of Geography, St. Petersburg University.
Since 1979, he played in student rock bands “Polygon”, “White Noise Generator”, “Ashes”, “Museum of 30 Coins”. Since 1992, he also played in the group “Cousin Twins”.

He worked as a sociology teacher at a medical school, where in 1986 he met a student at the school, Svetlana Surganova. In 1988, they created the group “Something Else,” which existed until 1994. In this group, Peter was a keyboard player, vocalist, and author of music for a significant part of the group’s songs. In particular, he owns the music for the songs “Save My Shadow”, “In Spite of Gloomy Decembers”, “When You Get Tired”, “Don’t Be Afraid, Darling”, performed in different years by Svetlana Surganova.

Svetlana Surganova recalls:
“Two meetings, in fact, influenced my future destiny and retrained me from a pediatrician to a musician. The first meeting took place when I was still studying at medical school, and it was a meeting with Pyotr Malakhovsky. There is such a figure in St. Petersburg, in addition to the fact that he is an interesting musician and songwriter, he is a biologist by training. A person who toils all his life, hesitates all his life, cannot stick to one of the shores all his life, and is tossed between biology and music. At that moment, when I was studying at the school, he taught social studies or geography there... well, that’s not the point. He saw me and grabbed me with a death grip (...) This is a man who simply took and predetermined my future fate. Despite the fact that I graduated from medical school with honors, despite the fact that I later graduated from the pediatric medical academy, I still went into music. Because he constantly convinced me that, in principle, I was good at it. And in the end I convinced him.”
(From an interview with O2-TV channel, September 2005)

With the formation of the Night Snipers group, Svetlana’s collaboration with Pyotr Malakhovsky and his musical groups significantly decreased, but some interaction continued. Peter participated in the recording of several tracks on the album “Baby Talk,” and in 1996 he traveled with the Snipers to Denmark. During his work as the music manager of the Dostoevsky club, he helped organize a number of performances by the Night Snipers in this club.

“This album (i.e. “Baby Talk”) as a whole is our deepest gratitude to those guys who collaborated with us at the very, very early stages. And the first person in this matter is, of course, Pyotr Malakhovsky. This is the leader of the group "ULME", in fact, the same person who lent his mighty shoulder and thanks to whom we recorded our first things together. These were the songs “Summer”, “Frontier”, “White People”, “You Will Leave”.
(from the interview “I will sing to you with my classic soprano”, 2000)

In 1995, Peter created the group “Ulme”, which exists to this day. Vocalist, keyboard player, author of the music and lyrics of most of the Ulme songs.
She is one of the leaders of the production center "April", the organizer of the St. Petersburg rock festivals "Baltic Spring", "Indian Summer", "April Drive", and the female rock vocal festival "Queen of the Night".

Leader of the ULME group

Leader of the group ULME". Born and lives in St. Petersburg. Over the years, he feels less and less inclined to express his personal experiences and emotions in words, puts them entirely into music. He is a logical-intuitive introvert by nature. He studied at a music school, majoring in piano, and graduated from a pop-jazz school with a major in compositions. He learned to play the guitar on his own while studying at the Faculty of Geography of St. Petersburg University. He played in the groups "Polygon", "White Noise Generator", "Ashes", " Something different", "Twin Cousins". In 1995 he created the group " ULME". Author of music for almost all songs " ULME", and the lyrics of some of them. Currently plays Roland T20 (since 1992) and Yamaha W5 (since 2005) instruments. Prefers to listen to Uriah Heep, Queen, Rush, King Krimson, highly appreciates the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Angelo Badolamenti. Loves team sports, supports Zenit. Enjoys playing hockey, tennis, table tennis, football, billiards, chess. Favorite writers - Stephen King, Haruki Murakami. Often re-reads the works of John Fowles, Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, Arturo Perez-Reverte.

Philosopher, musician, composer, naturalist, poet.

Philosopher, musician, composer, naturalist, poet. Arriving on Wanderings, compressing and stretching time and space. His Listener, Contemplator and Researcher is a Personality with an extraordinary and independent outlook on life, with experience in perceiving and reproducing musical texts and/or his own set of Wanderings. Many generations of aristocratic ancestors dictate to him the instinctive path of Service and Creation. His musical images were influenced by the work of Manfred Mann, Emerson and the group “Yes”, films of David Lynch and Andrei Tarkovsky, music of Angelo Badolamenti, texts of Stephen King, years of communication with the domestic rock community, communal apartments and courtyards of St. Petersburg, forest roads, thickets of raspberries and nettles of suburban holiday villages and the sands of Central Asia. His world is December snow under a street lamp and the twilight of the studio, random photographs, sun glare on Ladoga water, the smell of wild rosemary, old books, rosin and apples, dusty furniture, hay and unrepaired entrances, Ceylon tea and forest litter. The bohemian life of the night city and the thoughtful torpor of passengers on the last trains, vanity and leisurely, desperate existence outside the state and social regulations of existence with endless loyalty to the individual scenarios, strategies and creative acts of Fellow Travelers in our world overcrowded with formalities and standards.

To become a world champion, twice European champion and twice Olympic vice-champion, you must have a strong body and the will to win. To respond to a request for help and give away the most precious thing for an athlete - an Olympic medal, you need to have a big heart.

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has both.

A few hours after Malakhovsky won his second Olympic silver in the discus throw at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the mother of a two-year-old boy wrote to him on Facebook asking for help in her grief.

The boy has a rare form of eye cancer - retinablastoma, which develops only in children under 5 years of age.

This disease is treated in only one clinic in the world - in New York.

Malakhovsky immediately answered his mother and helped as best he could.

On his Facebook, he announced an auction for the sale of his brand new Rio 2016 Olympic medal in order to raise the missing amount for treatment - a third of the money was raised by a charitable foundation.

Malakhovsky wrote: “The dream of every athlete is an Olympic medal. Of course, the most expensive medal is gold. I did everything in my power, but only earned silver. But fate gave me a chance to increase the value of this silver.

In Rio I fought for Olympic gold. Today I am fighting for something much more valuable - the health of this beautiful boy."

And within one week the auction ended successfully. There were Poles who bought Malakhovsky’s medal for the required amount of money. Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk and Piotr Malakhovsky gave the boy a chance to recover.

Malakhovsky: “My dears, we did it. Today my medal is worth much more than a week ago. It is worth the life and health of little Olek. This is our common success!”

Yes, a big heart can do a lot of good, especially when combined with a strong body and spirit.

Respect, Peter!

Vasily PARNYAKOV