What are the names of the performers of the Butyrka group. New soloist of the group “Butyrka”

Butyrka Group formed through joint efforts Oleg Simonov and Vladimir Zhdamirov.

The history of the group begins in September 2001. By this time, the group had recorded several songs at a studio in Voronezh, but did not yet have their names. Of all the Moscow recording companies that the musicians approached, only the Master Sound company, well known to fans of the genre called “Russian Chanson,” became interested in the beginning band. Here they were noticed by producer A. Abramov, who in turn convinced the director of the company, Yu.N. Sevastyanov pay attention to the group. Sevastyanov, who has extensive experience in discovering stars of the Chanson genre (M. Krug, S. Nagovitsyn and many others), agreed to release the debut album. True, the team did not yet have a name. But after on September 3, 2001, several prisoners made a daring escape from the Moscow pre-trial detention center known as “Butyrka,” A. Abramov proposed calling the team that.

Everyone liked the name and it stuck. The debut “First Album”, released in 2002, was a stunning success. The original sound, memorable vocals of V. Zhdamirov, as well as the sincerity of O. Simonov’s poems immediately made the group popular.

The topics touched upon by Oleg in his poems were understandable and close to those who are familiar with life behind barbed wire first-hand. But there is one more feature - the themes of Butyrka’s songs are not only about prison and camps, there are a lot of simple stories in them, similar to stories from people’s lives.

The “second album” was released in the same 2002. It became a worthy continuation of the successful debut and consolidated the success of the group. At the presentation of the public music award “Worthy Song of 2002”, held at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, the group won in the “Discovery of the Year” nomination and was awarded the prize for the best video in the “Russian Chanson” genre (clip for the song “The Smell of Spring”, directed by A. Tumandeev).

In January 2004, the third album entitled “News” was released. In 2005, the fourth album “Icon” was released. In 2007, the fifth album entitled “Globe” was released.

In 2008, the “Sixth Album” of the Butyrka group was released. This album included only a few new songs, and it became the last album created under the group’s contract with the Russian Chanson company. From that moment on, the Butyrka group began its individual, independent creative development. Despite the termination of the contract with the group, the Russian Chanson company continues to independently release new songs that were stolen from the Butyrka group.

In 2009, the Butyrka group developed its first official website.

On January 21, 2014, the release of the new album of the Butyrka group “I’ll come back home” took place. The album is available for streaming and purchase on iTunes.

Composition of the Butyrka group for 2013:
Vladimir Zhdamirov - vocals, music composer


Andrey Zhuravlev - guitar
Yuri Akimov - drums
Sergey Moskalenko - sound engineer

New composition of the Butyrka group (2014):
Oleg Simonov - keyboards, lyricist
Mikhail Borisov - vocals
Alexander Goloshchapov - bass guitar
Andrey Zhuravlev - guitar
Yuri Akimov - drums
Yulia Griboyedova - art director
Valery Liznev - sound engineer

Current composition of the Butyrka group (2015):

Oleg Simonov - keyboards, lyricist
Andrey Bykov - vocals
Alexander Goloshchapov - bass guitar
Andrey Zhuravlev - guitar
Yuri Akimov - drums
Yulia Griboyedova - art director
Valery Liznev - sound engineer

SIMONOV OLEG VLADIMIROVICH(b. 08/06/1958) - poet, one of the founders of the Butyrka group, born in Tobolsk, later moved to the Voronezh region. After his release from the Irkutsk colony in the fall of 1999 (according to other sources - 1998), where Oleg Simonov spent 8 years, he decided to quit. In prison he came up with many lyrics, but he didn’t know how to write music and was looking for a co-author. In the same year, he met Vladimir Zhdamirov and they created the group “Dalniy Svet”. With the help of Voronezh arranger Alexey Bryantsev (actively worked with the Gas Sector group), they recorded the album “Transfers” (words by Oleg Simonov, music by Alexey Bryantsev), which was published by Soyuz studio. Despite the fact that Oleg Simonov paid decent money to the producing producer, the album failed. The group “Dalniy Svet” continued to exist; Igor Izmailov became the soloist, and Alexey Bryantsev became the producer. In mid-2001, Oleg Simonov and Vladimir Zhdamirov recorded a new album and brought it to producer Alexander Abramov, who in turn convinced the head of the Master Sound studio, Yuri Sevastyanov, to publish the material. The group did not have a name, but on September 3, 2001, prisoners escaped from the pre-trial detention center, popularly known as “Butyrka”. In light of this event, the group was called “Butyrka”, and the “First Album” (in 2014 it was re-released on vinyl), which was released in early 2002, had the effect of a bomb exploding; on this wave, the “Second Album” was immediately recorded and published. And at the same time, a multi-year contract was concluded with the Russian Chanson studio. The group “Butyrka” won the “Discovery of the Year” nomination in the “Worthy Song 2002” music award, which was presented in St. Petersburg at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall. In 2008, the Butyrka group broke the contract with the Russian Chanson company (Master Sound) and began working independently. At the same time, disagreements began in the group; at the end of 2013, a second soloist, Mikhail Borisov, appeared in the group; on December 23 of the same year, the conflict reached its climax - Vladimir Zhdamirov left. In April 2015, Mikhail Borisov left the band and Andrei Bykov became the soloist, with whom the group released the album “Date”. Oleg Simonov lives in the Voronezh region and has a son from his first marriage. In 2008, he married the concert director of the Butyrka group, Yulia Griboedova, whom he had known since school.

Borisov Mikhail Vladimirovich, born February 22, 1981. He spent his entire childhood in the southern city of Tuapse on the Black Sea coast. Mikhail grew up in a large and wonderful family: grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, uncle and two younger brothers. When Misha was still a child, his mother gave him a guitar for his birthday. He wasn’t particularly happy with the gift at the time, his father began strumming it, soon Misha became interested in this and at the age of 14 he had already learned to play the guitar quite well. He gathered girls and boys around him in the yard. And only now Mikhail realized that then, in distant childhood, his mother guessed his fate.

At the age of 22, Mikhail Borisov was convicted. His parents died while he was serving his sentence, and they never saw him... After his release, he was met by two younger brothers and his grandmother. Nobody hired a former prisoner, that’s the way it is in our country. And soon Mikhail returned to where he started, to the guitar and his favorite work.

Misha has repeatedly participated in regional and city pop song festivals. And he became a winner more than once. At the same time, he sang in taverns and restaurants, where he was noticed and offered to become the second vocalist of the Butyrka group. And now Mikhail’s life principle: “I don’t regret the past and I’m not ashamed to tell the truth, I only dream about the future, because I have a wonderful son and my favorite creativity!”

Biography of the second vocalist of the Butyrka group:

I Andrey Bykov, born in Berezniki, Perm region in 1960. Dad worked as an artist, mom worked as a kindergarten teacher. From an early age I was introduced to music and songs; my parents took part in amateur performances and took me with them. By the age of five, I already had my own small baggage - I knew several dozen Russian folk songs by heart! (I still remember many of them)! From the age of 12, my mother raised me alone (my father suddenly left worldly life).

Near the house in 1972. The Palace of Pioneers opened and my friends and I started studying at VIA. My first instrument in my rock and roll life was the bass guitar! The choice towards creativity was made in an instant!!! In 1976 he entered the music school, the brass department, bassoon class. I studied for two years and, to my deep regret, was expelled (I lacked perseverance and time for basic subjects). We started playing in the city park on the dance floor. What times!... In the fall of 1978. drafted into the army. Returning home, I started playing in a restaurant. In 1982-83 he worked at the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic in the musical group “Time and Song” as a technician. Then there was two years of work in restaurants in Abkhazia. In 1985 he returned to Berezniki and started working in a tavern.

In 1998 he went to Moscow for a year. It was in Moscow that the meeting and acquaintance with Oleg Simonov took place. The meeting was probably significant even then. We talked, he listened to me sing and said that we could collaborate in terms of creativity. We agreed to keep in touch. But I had to go home (my mother had a heart condition and was periodically ill). But fate decreed that I returned to Moscow in 2001 with my future wife Alena from Sochi. We met there. As always, I sang in the restaurant, Alena led her team, she had a show ballet and danced herself. Since then we have been together, our beautiful daughter is growing up. The eldest son Danya lives in Yekaterinburg. In February 2015, Oleg called and briefly outlined the situation and offered to participate in the group’s work. This is how our re-meeting took place!

Official website: http://gruppabutyrka.ru

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“The dream will definitely come true, you just have to go towards it, don’t listen to anyone and don’t turn on the rear,” says Mikhail Borisov. “When I was told that I had passed the qualifying round in the Russian Chanson company and was being invited to the legendary group Butyrka, I didn’t believe it.”

The information turned out to be correct. And for several months now, Mikhail has been touring with the group in the cities of our Motherland. But who is he, the new lead singer of the Butyrka group?

"The South is in vogue now"

“I am not ashamed to tell the truth. Every person has his own skeletons in his closet, and only the Lord God will judge them,” the musician is sure.

Those who have already attended the Butyrka concert do not know much about it. Young. Cute. The casting passed. From Tuapse. “The South is in fashion now,” jokes the group’s art director Yulia Griboyedova. - Grigory Leps, Stas Mikhailov, Mikhail Borisov..."

But first things first.

Large family, discipline and order

Mikhail was born in Kazakhstan on February 22, 1981. Soon the family moved to Russia on the Black Sea coast to the city of Tuapse.

“I remember my childhood well, but for some reason in black and white,” says the musician. - We lived in a two-story house that was built by my grandfather Mikhail, after whom I was named. The family was large, 8 people. Grandfather, grandmother, uncle, mother, father, me and two younger brothers. My father worked in Kazakhstan on drilling rigs, extracting oil. Mom was an accountant. Despite the fact that the country had a difficult post-perestroika time, we lived well. Grandfather was a leader and an excellent owner, so discipline and order reigned in the house. My grandmother worked all her life as a paramedic in a first-aid post on the railway. Now she is the last representative of the older generation of my relatives who is alive..."

Loner turned bully

As a child, the future soloist of “Butyrka” was often sick, was withdrawn and felt like a loner. The turning point came during adolescence. “Maybe the new circle of friends influenced me, maybe I believed in myself, or maybe the demon just got the better of my weakness,” says Mikhail. “From an obedient boy, I began to turn into a malicious hooligan. He ran away from home and became interested in the criminal world and thieves. They started being brought to the police and many other problems. Mom tried in every possible way to save me from trouble, but I was deaf and blind. I thought I was living correctly.”

At the age of 14, the young man became interested in the guitar and within a year began to play well. The number of friends grew by leaps and bounds. The guy signed up for boxing. In the evenings I went to training, and at night I spent in the yard with a cheerful company...

And, as they say, you can’t escape fate. At the age of 22 he received a sentence. 5 years.

“Many people ask me the same question: why? For hooliganism with the use of weapons and for fighting, Borisov does not hide. “Everything happened so quickly that I didn’t have time to understand how I ended up in the zone.”

5 years that seemed like a quarter of a century

“My parents died a few months after I was taken to the camp, and later my uncle died. It was a disaster. “I didn’t expect such a turn of events, and I didn’t want to live,” recalls Mikhail. - As luck would have it, I was transported to the Arkhangelsk region for logging. As it turns out, harsh camps are not only in films.”

He spent almost six months in solitary confinement for refusing household work and unwillingness to submit to camp discipline. And while I was sitting in the punishment cell, I came to the conclusion that the main thing in life is not to do harm to people and not to cause pain to relatives.

Borisov served out the rest of his sentence at his place of residence, in the Krasnodar Territory. But 5 years still lasted like 25...

Homecoming

After his release, Misha was met by his brothers. He couldn't hold back his tears. On the way home, he remembered how he promised his mother, leaving for the trial, that he would soon return, how his girlfriend, after the verdict, swore that she would wait until the end...

Soon the young man began to drink and only thanks to his grandmother he did not end up in jail again.

“I didn’t see my future, all my peers and friends already had families, businesses, cars and careers, but they didn’t take me anywhere,” he continues to say. - I worked as a laborer at a construction site. Then he fraudulently got a job as a cook in a decent restaurant, although he didn’t know how to do anything. After some time, together with his colleagues, he took 3rd place in the Krasnodar Territory in the category “Best dish of European cuisine.” Things were looking up. I got married and had a son.”

Dreams Come True!

Once, while at a corporate party, Borisov decided to sing. The guests were delighted, and he himself liked it. He borrowed a large sum of money and bought musical equipment. I learned a small repertoire and got a job in a tavern. It turned out that this was a calling.

“My friend once asked me: what is your goal in life? - says the musician. - I answered that I want to perform on the big stage. And he said: this is not a goal, this is a dream. But they, as a rule, do not come true.”

Mikhail's dreams came true. He met wonderful people and began touring the country with the Butyrka group. In just two months the album “I’ll be back home” was written. The team is currently working on the next album, which is due out at the end of 2014.

“I went through bad times with dignity, and I will go through good times with dignity,” Mikhail Borisov is sure.

The history of the Butyrka group begins in September 2001. By this time, several songs had been recorded, but the group still did not have a name. The name of the group, “Butyrka,” appeared completely by accident, after on September 3, 2001, several prisoners made a daring escape from Butyrka prison.

The debut album (“First Album”, 2002) was a stunning success, and “Butyrka” became one of the most popular groups and performers of “Russian chanson”. And this success was not accidental - fans of this genre could not help but note the original sound and arrangements, the memorable voice of Vladimir Zhdamirov, as well as the honesty and sincerity of Oleg Simonov’s poems. This is explained by the fact that everything that “Butyrka” sings about is true! Oleg, unlike many authors and performers, is familiar first-hand with life behind barbed wire. The themes of his poems are not only about prison and camps, but primarily about the destinies of people and stories from his life.

“The second album” was released in the same 2002. It became a worthy continuation of the successful debut and strengthened the success of the group. At the presentation of the public music award "Worthy Song 2002", held in St. Petersburg, at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, the group won in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination and was awarded the prize for the best video in the "Russian chanson" genre (clip for the song " It smelled like spring" directed by A. Tumandeev). The group's songs are on the first lines of the sales charts and charts of Russian radio stations.

In January 2004, the third album entitled “News” was released.

The band is currently working on their fourth album. "Butyrka" conducts active concert activities both in Russia and abroad.

Composition of the group:

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Oleg Simonov married his director

A joyful event recently happened in the BUTYRKA group, a popular group working in the Russian chanson genre. Soloist Oleg SIMONOV married the group's concert director, Yulia GRIBOEDOVA.

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After the death of chanson superstar Mikhail Krug, the Butyrka group became the most popular genre group, but little was known about the personal lives of its leaders, Vladimir Zhdamirov and Oleg Simonov.

Although Vladimir and Oleg have long become dollar millionaires, they have no plans to move to Moscow. This is how they live with their loved ones in a village near Voronezh. The main income of musicians, naturally, is fees for concerts. Over the five years of active performances, “Butyrka” has visited all major cities in Russia, near and far abroad, more than once. Considering that a concert of the group costs from $10 thousand, and there are at least a hundred of them a year, Zhdamirov and Simonov should have saved up a decent fortune long ago.

“Men have big families, they have to feed the kids,” smiles the band’s music producer Alexey Bryantsev. - They only have five offspring between them! Vladimir has three of his own chorus girls and one adopted daughter, and Oleg has a son. Previously, he had another boy - adopted, but he could not appreciate the kindness - he ran away. Seryozha joined the group at one of the concerts somewhere in the Russian outback. His parents either died or drank themselves to death, so Oleg, a kind soul, took pity on the guy. Dressed him, put on his shoes, helped him get documents. So this Seryoga, as soon as he had a brand new passport in his pocket and turned 16 years old, ran away. A free life without the educational edifications of a mentor seemed sweeter to him...

20 years later

Recently, Oleg Simonov got married to the concert director of his group, Yulia Griboyedova. They had known each other since school; they studied together. As classmates recall, the guy looked after Yulenka very touchingly. He walked her home after classes, carried her briefcase, gave her bouquets picked along the way from city flower beds, and in the evenings he took her to the cinema and discos. But after school their paths diverged. Oleg ended up in prison, where he served eight years, and upon leaving the prison, he started a family with another woman. By that time Yulia had a husband and daughter.

The wedding took place in one of the cozy restaurants near Voronezh. The stars of Russian chanson - Alexander Dyumin, Mikhail Sheleg, Zheka and many others - also came to congratulate the newlyweds. They handed the newlyweds plump envelopes with money, and they, in turn, treated the guests to ice-cold vodka and Russian cuisine. Oleg and Yulia spent their honeymoon in Anapa, although they unanimously admit that they usually like to relax in their village.

Just a fact

The group got the name “Butyrka” after several prisoners made a daring escape from Butyrka prison on September 3, 2001.

The most famous hits of Butyrka

“It smelled like spring”, “What autumn is it like in the camps”, “Icon”.

The work of the Butyrka group is known to all fans of chanson. Their songs are filled with prison lyrics, because most of them were written by the first soloist behind barbed wire. Oleg Simonov and Andrey Bykov sing not only about the camps, but also perform hits about simple stories that are close to many. It was the choice of topics close to the people that became the reason for the high popularity of the group.

Biography of the second soloist

In 1960, Andrei Bykov was born in the city of Berezniki, Perm Territory. His biography as a talented musician began there. His mother was a kindergarten teacher, and his father worked as an artist. Both parents took an active part in amateur artistic performances, which Andrei was introduced to from childhood. Raised by the example of his parents, the musician already had his own repertoire of several dozen folk songs by the age of five.

At the age of 12, the family was shocked by grief - the father of the future musician passed away. His mother raised him alone and encouraged him to study at the Palace of Pioneers, where the first teenage instrumental ensembles were created. When Andrey Bykov picked up the bass guitar, the choice in favor of music was finally made. The teenagers played rock and roll, which was popular at that time. Four years later, the future singer decided to grow professionally, which led him to a music school. True, he was unable to complete the course; according to the musician himself, he lacked perseverance. In addition, the department was a wind section and he learned to play the bassoon, which moved Andrei Bykov away from the stage.

After his studies were abandoned, the future singer began playing with friends on the dance floors of the city, but this career did not last long. In 1978, the musician went to military service, where he spent two years. Upon returning home, he began performing in restaurants. Then there was a period of work at the Philharmonic Society of the city of Ulyanovsk, which was followed by a return to tavern life, first in Abkhazia, and then in his native Berezniki.

Personal life

In 1998, Andrei Bykov decided to radically change his life; he came to Moscow to earn money. However, during this visit the singer was unable to advance his career - his mother was diagnosed with heart problems, which made it necessary for Andrei to be present in Berezniki.

The musician continued to travel to work, thanks to which he met his wife, Alena. They met in one of the restaurants in Sochi, where Andrei Bykov sang, and his chosen one led the dance show program and performed herself. Now they are raising two children: a beautiful daughter and eldest son Daniil, who is now studying in Yekaterinburg.

How Andrey got into the Butyrka group

The first meeting of the future soloist with one of the founders of the group (Oleg Simonov) took place back in 1998. Then the creator of the group highly appreciated Andrei’s professional qualities and even invited him to collaborate, and later recommended Vladimir Zhdamirov to replace Vladimir Zhdamirov, who had left the team, but due to family circumstances the lead singer had to refuse to participate in the group.

For a long time he substituted on album recordings, and in 2015 he began touring with the group. In 2016, he also took part in the anniversary concert in Voronezh, where the audience received the new soloist very cordially. At the moment, the lead singer of the Butyrka group Andrei Bykov is not going to leave the band and will delight the audience with new hits. His vocal qualities are perfect for performing Butyrka’s hits.

Concert activities

Now the group actively performs in cities of Russia and the Near Abroad. In every city, musicians actively communicate with their fans, never refusing autographs, photos or interviews. They are asked a variety of questions, but they try to answer them as honestly as possible.

During his performances, Andrei Bykov performs a variety of songs. At the anniversary concert in Voronezh, for example, he pleased the audience with a hit from the repertoire of Toto Cutugno. However, this is rather an exception to the rule. At concerts, new and legendary hits from Butyrka are most often played.

In every city, the team always visits prisons. Together with the rest of the musicians, Andrei recently visited the place that gave the name to the group. These concerts are absolutely free, and they are held in agreement with the heads of correctional institutions.