Red Wave: photos of Soviet rock stars by Joanna Stingray

It is always interesting to look at the idols of your youth — how quickly time flies after all! American singer, actress and music producer Joanna Stingray gave us this opportunity by publishing archive pictures of Russian rock legends in their youth on her website. Sometime in 1984, she met musicians of the Soviet rock underground, and then devoted many years to popularizing Soviet rock culture in the West. 

Yuri Kasparyan, Joanna Stingray, music critic Alexander Kan and Viktor Tsoi on the roof of Boris Grebenshchikov's house.

Musicians of the groups "Cinema", "Strange Games", "Alice", "Aquarium", Sergey Kuryokhin and Joanna Stingray.

Marianna, Viktor and Sasha Tsoi.

Mike Naumenko, the Zoo group.

Boris Grebenshchikov and Joanna Stingray.

The band "Alice": bassist Peter Samoilov and Konstantin Kinchev.

Vyacheslav Butusov and Joanna Stingray.

Viktor Sologub ("Strange Games"), Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoi and Konstantin Kinchev.

Boris Grebenshchikov and Joanna Stingray.

Beat quartet "Secret": Alexey Murashov, Nikolai Fomenko, Maxim Leonidov and Andrey Zabludovsky.

Bass guitarist of "Alice", Konstantin Kinchev, Joanna Stingray, Novikov, Tsoi, BG and others.

The drummer of" Kino " is Georgy Guryanov (Gustav), Stingray and Sergey Bugaev (Africa).

American artist Andy Warhol with a record by Sergey Kuryokhin.

Joanna Stingray and Tsoi, Konstantin Kinchev in the background.

Boris Grebenshchikov and Joanna Stingray.

The founder of "Alice" Svyatoslav Zaderiy and Konstantin Kinchev.