Auktyon

Auktyon
Background information
Origin	Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Genres	Art rock, indie rock, art punk, jazz rock, folk rock, freak folk, post-punk, experimental rock, psychedelic rock
Years active	1978 - present
Website	http://www.auktyon.ru/
Members	Leonid Fyodorov Oleg Garkusha Viktor Bondarik Dmitriy Ozerski Nikolai Rubanov Boris Shaveinikov Mikhail Kolovski Vladimir Volkov Yuri Parfyonov

Auktyon (Russian: АукцЫон, pronounced [ɐʊktsɨˈon]) is a Russian alternative rock band from Saint Petersburg.

The band was founded by Leonid Fyodorov and Oleg Garkusha at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad. Though they originally played post-punk and new wave, the group came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature.

Auktyon was particularly popular from 1987 through 1995, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for Leningrad. The group continues to play together and to release new albums. They toured the United States in 2006 in support of their first US release, the album Pioneer. The group returned to the US in 2008 when they released the album Girls Sing.

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