Belongs to a rare subclade I1-Y6340 of the I1 Y-DNA haplogroup
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Yegor Letov
Igor "Yegor" Fyodorovich Letov was a Russian singer-songwriter, best known as the founder and leader of the post-punk/psychedelic rock band Grazhdanskaya Oborona, as well as the founder of the conceptual art avant-garde project Communism and psychedelic rock outfit Yegor and Opizdinevshie. Letov collaborated with singer-songwriter Yanka Dyagileva and other Siberian underground artists as a record…
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culture · Russian musician (1964–2008) · poet · singer · songwriter · audio engineer · singer-songwriter · guitarist · painter · multi-instrumentalist · rock musician · conceptual artist · also Yegor Letov, Igor Fedorovich "Egor" Letov, Igor Fedorovich Letov, Egor Letov, Igor Fyodorovich Letov, Igor Letov
Born 10 September 1964 · Died 19 February 2008 · Q363371
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2018· 1 entry
A species of beetle discovered in Vietnam, Augyles letovi, was named in honor of Letov
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2008· 2 entries
Variety: Singer Yegor Letov dies
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Died 2008-02-19.
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2004· 1 entry
And 2005, Grazhdanskaya Oborona released two new albums - Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn' and Reanimatsiya (Letov wrote the title song of the latter while he was in intensive care)
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2002· 1 entry
Letov's projects released two more albums: the Grazhdanskaya Oborona album Zvezdopad, consisting entirely of famous Soviet songs in Letov's original interpretation, and the Yegor i Opizdenevshiye album Psikhodeliya Tomor
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1997· 1 entry
Letov married Natalia Chumakova, who also joined Grazhdanskaya Oborona as bass guitarist
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1993· 2 entries
Letov co-founded the National Bolshevik Party with Eduard Limonov and Alexander Dugin; his party membership number was 4
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Letov restarted Grazhdanskaya Oborona
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1985· 1 entry
The KGB began investigating Letov; in the fall of the same year, Letov was sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital, where he was forced to take anti-psychotic drugs
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1982· 1 entry
Together with Andrey "Boss" Babenko, named after Posev, the socio-political magazine of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-09-10.
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