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"Butyrka"- Russian musical group performing criminal songs. He conducts active concert activities both in Russia and abroad.

Story

It was September 1999 when Oleg Simonov, after serving 8 years, was released and returned home. During all the long 8 years, while serving his sentences in the Irkutsk colony, he wrote songs, singing them with a guitar. It often happens that it is in captivity that sincere lines are born in a person’s soul, going from heart to heart of other people. Oleg always hoped and believed that people, having heard his songs, would be able to feel what he felt when he wrote them, and a small hope did not leave him that someday these songs would be heard among the people and they would sound throughout the country.

Having freed himself, he began working on recording his songs professionally, and began looking for a vocalist who could bring his songs to a wide audience of listeners. This is how Vladimir Zhdamirov appeared in the group, who at that time sang at rural discos and wedding parties in the Voronezh outback and did not even think about becoming a musician, the lead singer of the group.

Neither Oleg Simonov nor Vladimir Zhdamirov had any special musical education, and Oleg recruited the talented Voronezh arranger Alexey Bryantsev to record his first album, who gave his songs a sound so familiar to listeners.

This album was released in 1999 at the Soyuz studio, and the new creative project was called the group “Dalniy Svet”. However, this album did not bring popularity to the guys. Having recorded three more new songs: “The Snow Is Melting”, “Banderol”, “By Stage”, Oleg offered them for audition to various Moscow recording companies. And it so happened that he was the music editor of the Master Sound Records company (currently the Russian Chanson Company), known for working with such performers as Mikhail Krug, Petliura, Ivan Kuchin, Sergei Nagovitsyn, Alexander Dyumin and many other famous chansonniers. The Master Sound Company, which was headed and owned by Yuri Sevostyanov, appreciated the originality and piercing honesty of Oleg’s poems and Vladimir’s interesting vocals. A long-term contract was concluded with the members of the creative team, called the Butyrka Group, and the producer of the group was Alexander Abramov, who came up with the name of the group, the image and images of its members.

This is how the Butyrka group was born....

Serious work has begun. A whole team of people worked on the first album:

Alexander Abramov, the group's producer, worked on the group's style and came up with the sound of Vladimir Zhdamirov's voice, Oleg Simonov worked on the lyrics, Alexey Bryantsev wrote his chic arrangements, which became the band's calling card for many years, other people were involved in touring, photo shoots, designing album covers and posters ...

So 13 years passed. Albums were recorded and released, videos and concerts were filmed. “Butyrka” won many hearts of its listeners, their songs were loved by millions and they were heard throughout the country. Their popularity grew every day! The group just needed to write new songs and please their listeners. But something went wrong or in the wrong direction. Why hasn't a new long-awaited album been recorded over the past three years?! The songs were ready, waiting in the wings. But the band’s vocalist Vladimir Zhdamirov found neither the time, nor the desire, nor the creative mood to perform these songs. For a group of this level, staying in place and singing hits from ten years ago is an unaffordable luxury! And soon this began to affect the group’s concert activities and its popularity in general. Listeners are tired of the wonderful, but boring hits, radio stations began to play Butyrka songs less often - there are no new songs.

The Russian Chanson Company (formerly the Master Sound Records Company) comes to the rescue, headed by General Director Olga Sevostyanova, who, after the death of her husband Yuri Sevostyanova, continues his work.

The company owns all rights to the published work of the musical group and rights to the trademark. And they decide to look for a vocalist to record a new album. This is how a young, talented performer Mikhail Borisov appeared in the group, who passed the casting at the Russian Chanson Company and won.

Misha was released not long ago and the theme of Butyrka songs was very close to him.

Mikhail played the guitar since childhood and loved to perform songs of famous singers and could not even imagine that he would take the place of a vocalist in a legendary group!

On December 23, 2013, a meeting of the entire team of the group was held at the Russian Chanson Company, where Vladimir Zhdamirov explained to everyone that he was leaving the group, since he had been working on a solo project for a long time.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Now we have a friendly team. Professional musicians returned to the group, who did not find a common language with V. Zhdamirov. You know them all.

• Our thin. hands - A. Zhuravlev solo guitar, Voronezh
• A. Goloshchapov - bass guitar, Volgograd
• Yu. Akimov drums - Moscow
• Sound engineer - V. Liznev, Moscow

I would like to thank them for their enormous help in recording the new album!

In 2014, in January, a new album “I’ll be back home” was released and a new concert program was prepared.

We hope that “Butyrka” will not disappoint you with its new songs and that you will like them!

www.gruppabutyrka.ru/discography

Discography CD

• 2002 - First album
• 2002 - Second album
• 2004 - News
• 2005 - Icon
• 2007 - Fifth album
• 2009 - Sixth album
• 2010 - Freedom Street
• 2010 - Hooligan
• 2014 - I'll return home
• 2015 - Date

Current lineup

• 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

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The French troops gradually melted away in a mathematically correct progression. And that crossing of the Berezina, about which so much has been written, was only one of the intermediate stages in the destruction of the French army, and not at all a decisive episode of the campaign. If so much has been and is being written about the Berezina, then on the part of the French this happened only because on the broken Berezina Bridge, the disasters that the French army had previously suffered evenly here suddenly grouped together at one moment and into one tragic spectacle that remained in everyone’s memory. On the Russian side, they talked and wrote so much about the Berezina only because, far from the theater of war, in St. Petersburg, a plan was drawn up (by Pfuel) to capture Napoleon in a strategic trap on the Berezina River. Everyone was convinced that everything would actually happen exactly as planned, and therefore insisted that it was the Berezina crossing that destroyed the French. In essence, the results of the Berezinsky crossing were much less disastrous for the French in terms of the loss of guns and prisoners than Krasnoye, as the numbers show.
The only significance of the Berezin crossing is that this crossing obviously and undoubtedly proved the falsity of all plans for cutting off and the justice of the only possible course of action demanded by both Kutuzov and all the troops (mass) - only following the enemy. The crowd of Frenchmen fled with an ever-increasing force of speed, with all their energy directed towards achieving their goal. She ran like a wounded animal, and she could not get in the way. This was proven not so much by the construction of the crossing as by the traffic on the bridges. When the bridges were broken, unarmed soldiers, Moscow residents, women and children who were in the French convoy - all, under the influence of the force of inertia, did not give up, but ran forward into the boats, into the frozen water.
This aspiration was reasonable. The situation of both those fleeing and those pursuing was equally bad. Remaining with his own, each in distress hoped for the help of a comrade, for a certain place he occupied among his own. Having given himself over to the Russians, he was in the same position of distress, but he was on a lower level in terms of satisfying the needs of life. The French did not need to have correct information that half of the prisoners, with whom they did not know what to do, despite all the Russians’ desire to save them, died from cold and hunger; they felt that it could not be otherwise. The most compassionate Russian commanders and hunters of the French, the French in Russian service could not do anything for the prisoners. The French were destroyed by the disaster in which the Russian army was located. It was impossible to take away bread and clothing from hungry, necessary soldiers in order to give it to the French who were not harmful, not hated, not guilty, but simply unnecessary. Some did; but this was only an exception.

Butyrka

A musical group called “Butyrka” has existed since the fall of 2001, thanks to Alexander Abramov, a producer of various singers who prefer the chanson direction.

In September 2001, a number of compositions were composed, but the group did not yet have a name. The name arose quite unexpectedly when on September 3 a number of prisoners escaped from Butyrka prison.

“The first album” was the simple title of the group’s first creation, released in 2002. The disc became very popular, and the group itself was recognizable in the chanson genre.
Fans of this direction drew attention to the unusualness of both the sound and vocals of Vladimir Zhdamirov. And on the veracity of the texts written by Oleg Simonov.
Oleg really knew what he was composing the song about. After all, he himself had to visit places not so remote as a prisoner.

The “second album” also appeared in 2002. It turned out to be very good, the popularity of the team grew stronger.
In St. Petersburg there was an award "Worthy Song 2002". So the group was named “Discovery of the Year”, and the group members were also given an award for the best video (for the composition “The Smell of Spring”).
The compositions "Butyrki" do not leave the top positions of the charts. The discs spread very well.

The first month of 2004 brings with it the group’s next disc, for a change called not “Third”, but “News”.

The Butyrka group also often went on tour both in our country and abroad.

The group includes:
soloist, composer Vladimir Zhdamirov,
poet and keyboard player Oleg Simonov,
producer Alexander Abramov.

The popular Russian group “Butyrka” conducts active concert activities in Russia and other countries. Created in 2001 by the band's soloists and producer Alexander Abramov, today the discography consists of more than 10 albums. The group works in the genres of Russian chanson, urban romance and thieves' song.

History of creation and composition

The history of the creative union of young people begins in 1998. That year, Oleg Simonov created a group called “Dalniy Svet” and a year later recorded the album “Presylochka” in a Voronezh recording studio. The group existed in this form until 2001.

In 2001, soloists Vladimir Zhdamirov and Oleg Simonov, together with the producer of “Russian Chanson” Alexander Abramov, decided to create a new group and called it “Butyrka”. This name appeared by chance, after a daring escape of several prisoners from Butyrka prison in September 2001.

During the existence of the group, its members changed several times. Of those who appeared in the team since the beginning of its formation, only 2 people remained. This is Oleg Simonov, who plays keyboards and creates lyrics, and bass guitarist Alexander Goloshchapov, who left the group in 2010, but returned 3 years later.

Drummer Tagir Alyautdinov and guitarist Alexander Kalugin left the group in 2006. Second guitarist Sergei Egorov worked in the band from 2006 to 2009, and bass guitarist Anton Smotrakov from 2010 to 2013.

The founder, composer and performer of songs, Vladimir Zhdamirov, who has been part of the group since its inception, left the group in 2013. This was a big blow for Butyrka fans and left many questions; everyone was interested in why the lead singer left the band when it was at the peak of its fame.

As it became known from the artist’s interviews for various Internet sites, he simply decided to pursue his solo career after many years of work in the group, the man records new songs and regularly pleases fans of his creativity with concerts in Russian cities.

After Zhdamirov left the creative team, a new soloist, Andrei Bykov, took his place in 2015. The public reacted ambiguously to the man. Since fans have gotten used to the permanent soloist for many years, not everyone liked the new man.

The first concerts with the new lineup were not as welcoming as the musicians were accustomed to. Although Zhdamirov himself stated in an interview that he was not delighted with the creative abilities of the new soloist. However, after a while, the fans accepted the man, and today all concerts are held with the same full houses.

Andrey Bykov knew the creator of Butyrka long before he was on the team. Then Oleg Simonov appreciated the professional qualities of the man and even invited him to cooperate and recommended him to replace Zhdamirov. In 2015, the man began touring with the group, and a year later he took part in the anniversary concert, which took place in Voronezh.

The musician is not going to leave the group, he intends to continue to delight listeners with new hits, since his vocal qualities are suitable for performing Butyrka’s hits. Before joining the group, Bykov’s biography was almost unremarkable. He himself comes from the Perm region, traveled to Moscow to work and at the same time performed in various institutions, until he finally moved to the capital.

In addition to the “old guys” of the group, the current lineup includes drummer Yuri Akimov, since 2009 guitarist Andrei Zhuravlev, vocalist Andrei Bykov, sound engineer Valery Liznev and art director Yulia Griboedova.

Music

The musicians' debut "First Album" was released in 2002. The reason for the success that the young people achieved was the sincerity of Simonov’s poems and Zhdamirov’s unusual but memorable vocals. The most devoted fans of the group’s work at that time were people who were familiar with life behind barbed wire. And in order to get closer to ordinary people, in their songs the men used not only themes of prisons and camps, but also told stories from life.

The name of the next album, “The Second Album,” which was released in 2002, became a successful continuation of the first, and after its distribution, it finally consolidated the success of the guys in their creative endeavor. The team’s work was also noted at the “Worthy Song of 2002” music award ceremony. The event took place at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, the Butyrka group won in the Discovery of the Year category and even received an award for the video for the song “Smell of Spring,” which was filmed by director A. Tumandeev.

The next album of the musicians, “News,” was released in early 2004, and a year later, fans of the group enjoyed new compositions from the album “Icon.” Their songs became hits and remained at the top of the television charts for weeks.

Butyrka's performance exceeded fans' expectations, with the recorded music, songs and albums released being of the highest level of quality. At this rate, in 2007 the artists were already releasing their fifth album.

The Sixth Album, released in 2009, had only a few new songs. It also became the last album that was released under the contract with Russian Chanson. The contract was not renewed, and the team decided to develop independently. Since then, Butyrka has been releasing new songs on its own and continuing its creative development.

Also in 2009, the group created its own website on the Internet, where fans listen to Butyrka’s hits and receive information about concerts. In the period from 2010 to 2014, the team pleases fans with 3 more new albums. By 2017, their discography already consisted of 11 albums.

The group has collaborated with other artists more than once; they have joint songs with and with other performers. In addition to songs, Butyrka does not forget about the videos that can be seen on the Internet today. The team shot a video for the song “Smell of Spring”, “Ball”, “Icon”, “Malets” and others.

There are also videos from fans on YouTube, for example, for the song “Certificate in the Blood.” The group still has many songs that even those who are not their fans know by heart. Among the most popular are “Baba Masha”, “Golden Domes”, “News”, “On the Other Side of the Fence” and others.

The Butyrka group now

Since “Butyrka” has won the hearts of listeners from various Russian and foreign cities during its existence, today the group is active in concert activities and participates in events with other stars. Latest photos from the musicians' performances, trips and tours can be seen on their official website.

In December 2017, the group took part in a concert in memory of. In addition to them, Irina Krug and other modern pop stars performed on stage.

At the beginning of 2018, the musicians released a new song “They Fly Away.” The composition is dedicated to the military pilot, their fellow countryman Roman Filipov, the man died in Syria while performing his military duty. Fans noticed that the song’s sound and manner of performance differed somewhat from the band’s main work.

As for the tour schedule, Butyrka spent the summer of 2018 on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. The group also performed in Moscow, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and in April - in Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk and Taganrog.

Discography

• 2002 – “First Album”
• 2002 – “Second Album”
• 2004 – “News”
• 2005 - “Icon”
• 2007 - “Fifth Album”
• 2009 – “Sixth Album”
• 2010 – “Freedom Street”
• 2010 – “Hooligan”
• 2014 – “I’ll be back home”
• 2015 – “Date”
• 2017 – “New and Best”

Clips

• "Ball"
• "Picture Nurse"
• "It smelled like spring"
• "Date"
• "Darling"
• "Subbotnik"
• "Icon"
• "They're flying away"

Zhdamirov Vladimir Nikolaevich is a famous musician, one of the creators of a separate direction of chanson. We will talk about the biography and work of this talented person in this article.

Childhood

This prominent musical figure was born on August 6, 1958. He was not the only child in the family, so he grew up in conditions of fierce competition, since each of the children wanted to receive more attention and praise from their parents.

Parents surrounded their children with constant attention and care, and, despite the difficult and difficult years of hardship, they tried to fence in their childhood, showing only the good side of life. And they never, ever focused on the bad. It's as if she doesn't exist at all.

Only the children still could not help but see the truth. Everything around was not that bad, but not good at the same time. Gradually, life deteriorated, and the child’s inquisitive mind understood this perfectly. But while the family was responsible for them, until they were left to the streets, the children could take the word of their mother and father. Having matured, they set off with their own feet to plow the expanses of their vast homeland. And that’s when the truth came out.

Youth

The guy’s youth was, to put it mildly, unsafe. In his youth there was hooliganism and constant arrests at the police station. The young guy lived life to the fullest. For him there was only one day, and everything besides it - let it all burn with fire and be lost! Several times the teenager came close to actually going to jail. But thanks to his parents’ connections, and simply incredible cosmic luck, the young man avoided the shameful stigma of “criminal” in those days.

It couldn't go on like this any longer. Since his parents were involved in art, and the guy’s brother, not just anyone, but in the field of the dance genre, it is not surprising that Vladimir decided to forget about the crooked and narrow road of a criminal and, with his father’s parting words, decided to seriously engage in music and independent creativity.

Quickly getting the hang of it, the guy begins trying to record his own songs. Little by little, his ability to play the guitar and his strengthened voice allowed him to record his first test songs. His personal level as a musician is growing, and the guy urgently strives to find like-minded people.

Becoming an artist

Well, then time rushed to run. It started, it went, it spun, it spun. Homemade guitars that were made in the evenings in the courtyard while drinking alcoholic beverages. VIA, work at dances and weddings, amid the noise of drunken guests and shouts of “Bitter” to the newlyweds. Vladimir tries to perform constantly, but his busy schedule gradually kills his desire to write real music. A musician's career is limited to such small performances, and although he has a stable income and some kind of fame, the man wants something more. Something else, but what, unfortunately, he doesn’t know at all.

A new turn in the biography of Vladimir Zhdamirov occurred in 1997, when he met Oleg Simonov. Oleg had just been released from prison, where he wrote most of the lyrics for future songs. Vladimir was one of many performers to whom Oleg offered cooperation, but he turned out to be the only one whose voice, charisma and dedication helped make the right choice, which determined the fate of both for years to come. Their first joint project was called “Distant Light”, and, as many believe, it became a turning point in the lives of the project’s authors, forever changing their small world of music, showing it to the world exactly as the creators themselves saw it.

Cooperation

Relations within the team did not develop almost immediately after its founding. No, two adults with a wealth of experience behind them did not make demonstrative scenes and did not quarrel over trifles, as if this was what their life consisted of. But sometimes there were real conflicts of interest. The two musicians could not decide what their young group should become in the world of music and in what direction they would move.

For this reason, success came to the group after quite a long time, and the musicians had to put a lot of effort into this. The first songs of Vladimir Zhdamirov were not very warmly received by the public. The team, of course, attended events for money and gave a number of concerts. But the music of Vladimir Zhdamirov and his group was of average quality, and people immediately heard it and could not sufficiently enjoy the singing and playing of the men.

We had to sit down and negotiate among ourselves. The reconciliation between the two sides took a long time, but gradually, with the opening and emergence of dialogue, the quality of the songs began to improve. Of course, the new songs did not bring worldwide fame, but people had already begun to wait for them, somehow showing the singers signs of love and attention.

The end of the work of "Distant Light"

The group ended its existence in the “Distant Light” format for several reasons. Firstly, there were much fewer ideas for songs, and it seemed like creative differences, forgotten and buried in the ground, began to appear again. The musicians did not want to go through the most unpleasant moments of creativity again and decided to end it on a high note, remaining friends.

Secondly, it began to seem to spectators and listeners at concerts that musicians can do much more than they express emotionally and show in the quality of the music they wrote. Letters from fans began to increasingly contain hopes that the musicians would make a truly gorgeous project that would once again return them to the Olympus of Russian music.

Due to these circumstances, the men made a joint decision to open a new chapter in their lives. They say little about this stage, but from the words that journalists managed to extract from them, it is clear that now, after so much time, they do not regret anything.

"Butyrka"

In 2002, the group released their first album entitled “First Album”. The disc was a stunning success. The listeners finally got something new, but there were also those among them who did not like the new music. But even without them, the group had an impressive fan base, and in a short time the Butyrka group became one of the most popular chanson performers in Russia.

Of course, such news could not but affect the creativity and goal-setting of the group. The main thing in this story is that fame was not accidental at all. The listeners finally received the desired piece of normal creativity, and the singer’s voice and delivery also played their role. New glory.

The new album was released at the end of 2002. The band decided to strike while it was hot and attacked the music like a wild dog on a man. The album by Vladimir Zhdamirov and his team was liked by the public again. The group has already firmly established itself in the positions it occupied. The creativity of Vladimir Zhdamirov and the entire team was appreciated, which means they could rest a little and think about what to do now with the fame and with the responsibility placed on their courageous shoulders. The number of corporate events, performances and simply concerts has doubled, if not tripled, in one month. Everyone wanted to listen and watch the musicians and their presentation live. The price tag for performances has increased, and along with it, the artists’ opinion of themselves has also grown.

Stars

The group began receiving all kinds of national awards and honors. The musicians give up writing new songs and tour all over the country with the old and proven program. They are warmly welcomed in every city, they are stars and deserve the warmth and loyalty of people’s hearts. They always have full houses, but sometimes they play at half capacity. But even such performances are liked by the public.

Artists begin to attend thematic programs, expand their staff and open new vacancies. Now they are not just musicians, they are a brand, and the task of the brand is to live up to the level.

Problems within the team

But nothing lasts forever under the sun. The group, of course, had problems and disagreements, which they skillfully hid from the audience. But even if you can deceive them, you certainly can’t deceive them by exposing yourself.

In December 2013, personnel changes took place in the team, which will become the final chord in life, and most importantly, in the work of the once famous group. Instead of Vladimir, a new vocalist is hired. Before this, no one informs the man about the previously made decision, which, in fact, is a behind-the-scenes game of other participants.

A new twist in the biography - Vladimir Zhdamirov is faced with a choice, but to the latter’s credit, he simply accepts it as a fact. Of course, it’s difficult for him, of course, he doesn’t want to leave his partners. But the choice was not made by him, which means nothing depends on him.

Vladimir gathers musicians who do not want to work without him, and together they leave Butyrka, leaving this musical project behind.

After "Butyrka"

After saying goodbye to the group, Vladimir was in a difficult situation. He did not have the rights to perform his songs, nor did he have the opportunity to immediately begin writing new ones. Studios were expensive, so to begin with, the creative association of people who left Butyrka worked somehow, preparing to just start from scratch. Cheap corporate events have returned, and the atmosphere of communication between musicians and listeners has returned. He again begins to read his letters himself, again begins to answer them and be interested in the opinions of fans. The passing of fame does him good, and soon he records his first solo album, which begins to spin and sound in the world.

Solo debut

On the first day of winter 2014, the official release of his debut solo album “Spring Behind the Fence” took place. Vladimir Zhdamirov is not upset. He continues to do what he loves - music. The song "Spring" by Vladimir Zhdamirov became popular on the radio. The tour begins, people's love returns to the singer.