The actor and musician Viktor Tsoi, unusually famous in the eighties of the last century, has not lost his popularity today, more than twenty years after his tragic death.
Tsoi's walls, on which fans paint portraits of their idol, write quotes from his songs, next to which they are going to listen to songs and talk about life, are in the cities of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. In Moscow, a similar one is located in Krivoarbatsky lane.
In 1984, at the Leningrad rock festival, the Kino group consisting of the leader Viktor Tsoi, guitarist Yuri Kasparyan, drummer Georgy Guryanov, bass guitarist Alexander Titov became a real sensation. From that moment on, the popularity of the collective was only increasing.
The lyrics and music, the author of which was Tsoi, as they say, completely coincided with the moods and attitudes of most young people of that time. Some critics of Tsoi see in the attraction for immature souls of his work a lot of destructive and harmful.
Songs with a pretense to adulthood and philosophy made their effect on the minds of young people, each of whom at a certain age wants to see tragedy in their fate. There is a certain grain of truth in this, which is confirmed by the fact that when Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident, several teenagers committed suicide. For these guys, he really was "a star named sun" (the name of the group's album "Kino"). In his songs, young people wanted to see and saw themselves. It is no coincidence that the then State Security Committee included the Kino group on the list of ideologically harmful collectives.
However, the main reason for love for the musician is his obvious talent and genuine sincerity. He lived the way he sang, the young people felt it. The peak of popularity of Viktor Tsoi came in 1988 after the recording of the "Kino" album "Blood Type", as well as the release of the film "Needle", where he played the silent, aloof, full of self-esteem and dressed in black Moreau. The film quickly came to second place in the Soviet box office, and tens of thousands of teenagers began to cut their hair and dress like Tsoi.
A born hero, constantly ready for rebellion, Viktor Tsoi created the image of a person that young people want to see themselves as. This is where the success of his popularity lies.
