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	From an interview with “Echo of Moscow” March 29, 2007
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Artemy Kivovich Troitsky(at birth - Maydanik; genus. June 16, Yaroslavl) - rock journalist, music critic, one of the first promoters of rock music in the USSR, indie (independent) and electronic music in Russia. Member of the jury and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals, presenter of these concerts. One of the leading specialists in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - “Priboy”, “Zenith”, “Zakat”, which released little-known music in Russia.

Biography

Born on June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of political scientist and Latin American historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik. Mother - Rufina Nikolaevna Troitskaya. He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the magazine “Problems of Peace and Socialism.”

From 1972 to 1974 he ran discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in the B-4 cafe. In 1977 he graduated with a degree in mathematician-economist. From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Art History. He was fired before he had time to defend his Ph.D. dissertation on the sociology of popular music (and, as he wrote in the book “Rattles Skeletons in the Closet. The East Is Red,” he threw the text of the dissertation into the trash bin).

He taught a master class on music journalism at the journalism department of Moscow State University. In a 2015 interview, Troitsky noted that he was “survived” from Moscow State University after 13 years of teaching.

Since mid-September 2014 he lives in Tallinn, Estonia, where he teaches, also teaches in Finland and London, and conducts individual lectures in many other places.

Journalism

He is the author and presenter of the program “” on the radio station “Finam FM” (until September 2010 - on the radio “Echo of Moscow”). Also, on “Echo”, Troitsky appears as a guest in the “Minority Report” program. In 2010, a conflict arose between Troitsky and the deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Sergei Buntman over the Noize MC song “Mercedes S666”, released in connection with the death of the famous obstetrician V. M. Sidelnikova in an accident.

Organization of concerts

In the late 1970s - early 1980s, he organized underground concerts and festivals of Soviet rock groups, among which were “Time Machine”, “Dynamic”, “Zoo”, “Kino”, A. Bashlachev. He was the organizer and member of the jury of the festival “Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-1980”, thanks to which the groups “Time Machine”, “Magnetic Band”, “Aquarium” and “Autograph” became widely known. He was one of the first to notice the talent of Vasily Shumov and the Center group, whom he later helped and looked after in every possible way.

In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR of such groups as “AVIA”, “Zvuki Mu”, “Igry”, “TV”, “Bravo”, “Automatic Satisfactories”. In 1994 he organized the British electronic music festival “Britronica” in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. Organized and patronized performances of such groups and performers as Julee Cruise, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, the Moscow company Caviar Lounge was involved in organizing tours. At his instigation, the Finnish group Eläkeläiset performed in Moscow for the first time, after which an official CD release of this group was released in Russia and Finland.

In 2003-2004, he was chairman of the jury of the International Festival of Ethnic Music “Sayan Ring” in Shushenskoye (since 2012 the festival has been called “World of Siberia”). Together with Irina Shcherbakova, he founded the Caviar Lounge company, which has been organizing concerts of foreign musicians in Russia for the past 10 years.

Concert Birthday of Viktor Tsoi

On June 21, 2002, he organized a tribute concert for the Kino group, “Viktor Tsoi’s Birthday,” at the Petersburg sports and concert complex, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Tsoi. He acted as the host of this concert, Moroz Records released a music album with a recording of the concert.

TV

IN different years hosted the programs “Cultural Goods” and “Kings of Song” on the “Culture” TV channel. In 2004, he made the program “Signs of Life” for Ren-TV. In the late 2000s, he hosted the program “Professor Troitsky and Comrade Artyom” on Style TV.

Since 2010, he has been hosting the television program “The Rock Experience: Year after Year” on Internet television.

Music

Artemy Troitsky recorded several songs as part of his own project “Soviet Porn”. The first recording was a cover of Alla Pugacheva (the song “Queen”), recorded together with Roman Belavkin (Solar X). The second track was the song “Snow from Her Hair,” recorded with musician Oleg Nesterov for the film Down House. The third track, “I Gave You Spring,” was recorded together with Andrei Samsonov for the collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov “My Friend the Musician.” With Misha Vivisectors (The Vivisectors) Artemy Troitsky recorded two tracks - “Agent 008” and “Sha Pu Na Na”.

Filmography

- “The Masters of the USSR, or the Monkey’s Snout” (NOMFILM)
- “Down House” by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
- "Paul McCartney In Red Square" - cameo
- “Young and happy” - voodoo sorcerer
- Arie - crime boss
- "Day Watch" - birthday guest
- "Tumbler"
- "Gloss" - Mark, thief in law
- Star Pile - Lord God
- Gena Beton - party leader

Radio

The main radio program of Artemy Troitsky is a program that was first called “Uncle Ko’s Ark” (1990-1996), then for a very long time - “” (1996-2013), and since March 2013 has been called “Stereo-Voodoo”. In the program, the author introduces listeners to recently released music that does not fall into the formats of other radio stations and is not published by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music be from different parts of the Earth. Over the years of the program’s existence, it has featured melodies from 80-90% of the world’s countries, including island microstates.

Under the name “Uncle Ko’s Ark” the program was broadcast on radio stations: “All-Union Radio”, “Radio Maximum” and “Radio 101” (1990-1996).
Under the name “FM Dostoevsky” the program was broadcast on radio stations: “Europe Plus”, “Radio 101”, “Echo of Moscow” and “Finam FM” (1996-2013).
Under the name “Stereo-Voodoo”, 131 episodes of the program were released on the radio “Rock FM” (from March 25, 2013 to December 28, 2015).
Since 2016, Artemy Troitsky plans to work for Radio Imagine.

In the mid-2000s, Artemy Troitsky aired another weekly musical program on “Echo of Moscow” - “Red Corner”. In addition, the journalist several times a year becomes a guest on the “Minority Opinion” program, where he comments on current socio-political news. Artemy Troitsky’s visits to Ekho Moskvy are such a success that the journalist from time to time ends up in the top 7 employees of the radio station.

In 2010, he was suspended from participation in the “Minority Opinion” program of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” when he tried to put it on air.

Books

In 1990, the book “Tusovka” was published in Italy, England and Holland. What happened to the Soviet underground”, not published in Russia. According to A. Troitsky himself in an interview: “Interesting Times” - political - was published in Finland. Just recently my new book “I will introduce you to the world...Pop” appeared.”

In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published the audiobook “Back in the USSR. True story rock in Russia" read by Artemy Troitsky and Alexander Klyukvin.

Bibliography

Criticism from musicians

About Artemy Kivovich in the repertoire of the ensemble “Cockroaches! “There is a song called “Mr. Music Critic,” which questions the value of the work of a music critic both in general and in the example of A.T.

Troitsky is also mentioned in the song of the group Chaif - “Suburban Blues No. 3”, a rap group

Vladimir Polupanov:"AiF"— Artyom, they say that you are now a rare guest in Moscow, what made you move to Tallinn? Has the capital of Estonia become a musical mecca?

Artemy Troitsky:— I moved to Tallinn with my whole family, first of all, because there was clearly not enough work for me in my homeland, but in Estonia they offered it to me. In addition to teaching, I host a music radio program and write columns for Estonian newspapers. I am still a Russian citizen, I visit Moscow and St. Petersburg every month. And I'm on the waiting list. When communicating with people in my professional circle, I see that they all also live as if under the sword of Damocles: they are afraid of being fired, of having their salaries lowered. So working in Russia has become very anxious and unsteady due to the crisis.

— In your opinion, what is the future scenario for the development of events in Russia?

— The most likely thing is that Russia will become a third world country and a raw materials appendage, on the one hand, of the West, on the other, of China (as if strongly distributed geographically Saudi Arabia or Iran). This does not mean that people will necessarily live poorly. A country can be quite rich, since there is still oil, gas, metal, timber, fresh water etc., but not particularly advanced, conservative and backward in terms of science and education, all of whose achievements are in the past, not in the future.

I can associate the scenario in which Russia can experience a real dawn with the rise of science, technology, education, culture, economic reforms, etc. This is my dream. But I have no confidence that even if we urgently begin to carry out some urgent reforms, we will have time to jump on the bandwagon of the last carriage of the departing train.

— As far as I understand, life in America is also hard. You yourself said that she “deceives many with false complacency and general comfort. But in reality, life there is terribly stressful, and behind the façade of prosperity there are holes.”

— Yes, there are no ideal places to live in the world. America is also full of problems. I have been there many times, even worked a couple of times, and I lecture there all the time. I don't really like the American way of life - it's exhausting. There is not a nominal cult there, as was the case in the USSR, but a real cult of labor. And if a person wants, without some kind of financial support, to live for his own pleasure, to engage in creativity, to switch off from this gigantic mechanism of making money, he has a hard time there. The image of America from the film is still relevant to me Charlie Chaplin“Modern Times”, where he is first thrown onto a conveyor belt and then sucked into a mechanism with gears.

— With age, as I see it, your optimism has greatly diminished.?

- Undoubtedly, I have become more pessimistic. The main reason for pessimism is that, looking at what is happening in the world (not only in Russia), I see that life in the 21st century is ours human civilization rolled somewhere in the wrong direction. It is obvious to me that, despite all the technological advances (Internet, iPhones, etc.), people nowadays live much less happily, much more anxiously, more stressed than they lived, say, in the 80s and even 90s . This applies to Europe and the USA no less than to Russia. And since I have children, this worries me. All the hopes of parents, naturally, are connected with the fact that their children will live better or at least as fun as their parents. I don't have that feeling. On the contrary, we are very worried about the future of children.

— Did your generation (I mean not only you, but also Makarevich, Shevchuk, Grebenshchikov, etc.) experience a great ideological catastrophe?

— You formulated this quite correctly, but I would say that this is not so much an ideological catastrophe as a personal drama. I look at it more abstractly, as opposed to Makarevich, Shevchuk And BG. It is incomprehensible and mysterious to me how millions of our people, who for 40 years loved and adored the same Makarevich, sang his songs, and not on orders from above, suddenly managed to hate him overnight and call him a traitor? The BG song “Harvest Festival in the Palace of Labor” begins with the line: “No matter how much we sang, it was as if we were silent.” The whole message of Russian rock - freedom-loving, anti-war, love each other - has somehow evaporated. You might think that all these years people listened only to the song “Get up, huge country”, and not “New Turn”, “For those at sea”, etc. And Makarevich, and Shevchuk, and Grebenshchikov thought that they , at least, people who were not only listened to, but also heard, understood, and approved. Now, naturally, all these hopes are in ruins. They worry very much. Although they hold the blow.

— In the public consciousness, you are a music critic, because it is in this area that you made a career. Is this area still interesting to you today, or has it become boring to write about music, analyze it and listen to it?

— I can say with complete confidence that I still love music and listen to it a lot. First of all, new. I don’t dwell on the favorite music of my youth. I constantly try to master some new things. If we talk about the profession of a music critic, I would say that now it is no less in demand than before. But sharpened in a slightly different way. If music criticism used to involve some kind of analytics or historiography and was more serious, now music criticism is, first of all, navigation through the vast space of the music Internet. Since people in this space, including rather sophisticated music lovers, tend to get lost, it is very important that there are guides-navigators who can somehow orient listeners in this confusing and difficult musical world. I must say that most of my professional activity is still related to music. I have three music radio programs “Stereowood” in Moscow, “New Music for Adults” (in Tallinn) and “Rock and Roll in Breadth and Depth” (in St. Petersburg). All three programs are musical. In addition, I have not yet given up trying to revive the Steppenwolf Award. Well, sometimes there are publications on music topics. Although I haven’t written any serious articles about music for a long time.

— At the universities of Tallinn and Helsinki you give a course of lectures on youth movements in Russia - dandyism, Decembrism, hipsterism. Are students interested in the topic of Russian youth movements?

— One of the courses of lectures that I give is entitled: “Youth movements and subculture of Russia from the beginning of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century.” And there may indeed be a subtitle “From dandies and Decembrists to gopniks and hipsters.” Since the students are young people, and all these movements are youth movements, there is great interest in these lectures, and they are surprisingly fun for me.

— In your opinion, are there any interesting youth movements in Russia today? In my opinion, hipsterism is not so much a Russian as an international phenomenon and more focused on external manifestations than on the manifestation of the spirit?

— I agree, hipsterism is not a very interesting movement and is more external than having internal philosophical support. Quite decorative, I would say. As for ideologically motivated movements, they could be listed for quite a long time. On the one hand, there is a nice volunteer movement. Guys who volunteer to help people. These are the Timurites of the 21st century. They search for missing people, put out fires, and take care of the elderly. This is a very correct movement. On the other hand, there is a less sympathetic movement, usually sponsored from above - the ever-memorable “Nashi”, “Anti-Maidan”. And there is something to talk about.

— Do you agree that such a phenomenon as the Decembrists is impossible in Russia today?

- This is, of course, a very difficult question. Studying both the Decembrist movement and the Narodnaya Volya movement (since it is still closer to today’s realities and, in particular, the movement of young Marxists, to whom Lenin belonged at one time), of course, I draw attention to the fact that people who were the same, and sometimes younger, years than today’s hipsters were obsessed with completely different ideas and were much more serious than today’s youth. What is this connected with? In many ways, with some kind of general infantilization of society, and not only in Russia. This is partly due, of course, to the attitudes of consumer society, which, of course, have largely reoriented people from an idealistic to a materialistic way. By the way, I don’t think at all that people, including young people, have crushed it so much that they can’t do anything at all. We now have both ascetics and people who are ready to take risks and hardships for the sake of an idea. Another thing is that they are in a clear minority. And we are not yet able to shake up the overall amorphous mass.

— I was at the Eurovision Song Contest recently held in Vienna and, frankly speaking, I was very surprised how popular Thomas Neuwirth (in female form and with the Conchita Wurst beard) was among Europeans. I thought that this popularity was local in nature. Well, we giggled and forgot. But no. He (or she) advertises banks, appears on TV, goes to kindergartens and schools in Austria, talking about success stories. Do you think the Europeans have gone too far with tolerance in this case?

— If you look at all this objectively, then the entire vector of development of today’s Western civilization is aimed at tolerance, including in terms of sexual orientation. This is theoretically true, since it is not good to rank or segregate people based on their sexual orientation. On the other hand, and this is my subjective opinion, I believe that the pathos that now exists in Europe and North America around the gay movement, redundant. It seems to me that, in principle, the topic of sexual orientation, just like the topic of delicate illnesses or religion, should remain in the sphere of the personal, intimate and not spill out to such an extent as is being done now. I don’t like it, not because I’m homophobic or homophile (laughs), but simply because I sincerely believe that no one should care what sexual orientation other people have. In the same way, for the subjects of this same sexual orientation, in my opinion, it is completely unnecessary to impose their homo-aesthetics on everyone around them. For example, when they ask me from time to time: am I against or for the so-called gay pride parades, I answer: regarding gay pride parades, I don’t understand: a) why ban them? b) why carry them out?

Artemy Troitsky with his daughter Photo: www.russianlook.com

— What are the prevailing sentiments in Europe regarding Russia today? Do they fear us there, hate us, respect us?

— I think that sentiments regarding Russia are very different. This largely depends on geography. In Estonia, where I spend most of my time, the Estonian majority has a rather wary attitude towards Russia. Estonia is one of the border countries. People, in general, are afraid of Russia. As for the countries of southern, western and central Europe, they didn’t care much about Russia, and they don’t. I have not encountered any cases of Russophobia. From time to time I attend some conferences where scientists, Kremlinologists, political scientists, experts, analysts gather... here the attitude towards Russia is quite critical. Although there are also different approaches. There are people who believe that Russia needs to be actively resisted because it behaves offensively and aggressively. There are people who believe that they can give up on Russia, the main thing is to ensure the integrity of the border states and the inviolability of their borders. But, in general, I would say that the attitude towards Russian people has not changed at all. The attitude towards the Russian state has become much more cool and partial in the bad sense of the word.

— Do you notice obvious age-related changes in yourself, not external, but internal?

- Naturally. I became calmer and more careful in my assessments. Be more restrained in your speeches. And in this sense, he became, perhaps, not as reckless and radical as he was until recently. In part, maybe lawsuits they taught me something (and there were 7 of them in total, all in one year - 2011). In part, perhaps, it is the wisdom that has come over the years. Although I still feel very young. I am, after all, a young dad. The youngest daughter Lydia is not yet 5 years old. So I can’t say that I feel completely elderly.

Artemy Kivovich Troitsky (birth name - Artemy Kivovich Maidanik, June 16, 1955, Yaroslavl) - rock journalist, music critic, one of the first promoters of rock music in the USSR, indie (independent) and electronic music in Russia.

Member of the jury and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals. One of the leading specialists in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - “Priboy”, “Zenith”, “Zakat”, which released little-known music in Russia.

Born on June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of a prominent Bolshevik and Soviet political scientist and historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik. Mother - Rufina Nikolaevna Troitskaya.

He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the magazine “Problems of Peace and Socialism.”

From 1972 to 1974 he ran discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in the B-4 cafe.

In 1977 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in mathematician-economist.

From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Art History. He was fired before he had time to defend his Ph.D. dissertation on the sociology of popular music (and, as he wrote in the book “Rattles Skeletons in the Closet. The East Is Red,” he threw the text of the dissertation into the trash bin).

From 1982 to 1983 he was a guitarist in the group “Zvuki Mu”. One of the founders of the “General records” label. Wife Vera, three children (Alexandra, born 1998, Ivan, born 2002 and Lydia, born 2010).

Since 2001, he has been lecturing on the subjects “History of the Entertainment Industry” and “Music Press” at the Faculty of “Producing and Management in Music Show Business” State University management.

Taught a master class on music journalism at the journalism department of Moscow State University.

Since mid-September 2014 he has been living in Tallinn, Estonia.

Artemy Troitsky. A story about how I sang at a wedding

Artemy Troitsky - journalist

Troitsky’s debut as a rock journalist took place in 1967, he wrote a review of The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", published in a homemade school magazine. He wrote articles about rock music in the magazine "Coeval" at a time when rock music was out of favor with the USSR authorities. The first such publication was an article about the group Deep Purple "Five Dark Purple" in 1975.

In 1979, he attended Elton John’s concerts in Moscow in order to personally experience the difference between this performer’s performances in Europe and the USSR (according to him, shortly before that he attended a concert in Austria).

In 1981, he was a member of the editorial board of the samizdat magazine “Zerkalo”. His publications were banned in the Soviet press from 1983 to 1985.

From 1995 to 1996 he was the first editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Playboy magazine. Later he collaborated with other publications, including Novaya Gazeta (since 1997, presenter of the weekly Novaya Gazeta. Monday column, member of the editorial board and author of the Moscow Beat music supplement).

Music columnist for the Moscow Times newspaper.

In 2000, he began editing the “Diversant-Daily” column on the estart.ru portal, which grew into Troitsky’s separate Internet project “Diversant-Daily” (currently not supported). She is an expert at the International Expert Council of the Virtual Production Center “Record v 2.0”.

In 2010, a conflict arose between Troitsky and the deputy editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Sergei Buntman, over the Noize MC song “Mercedes S666,” released in connection with the death of the famous obstetrician V. M. Sidelnikova in an accident.

Artemy Troitsky. Cold season trash parade

In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR of such groups as “AVIA”, “Zvuki Mu”, “Igry”, “TV”, “Bravo”, “Automatic Satisfactories”.

In 1994 he organized the British electronic music festival “Britronica” in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. Organized and patronized performances of such groups and performers as Julie Cruise, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, the Moscow company Caviar Lounge was involved in organizing tours. At his instigation, the Finnish group Eläkeläiset performed in Moscow for the first time, after which an official CD release of this group was released in Russia and Finland.

Artemy Troitsky on television

Until 1986, he hosted, together with Jānis Šipkevis and Juris Podnieks, the program “Videorhythms” dedicated to video clips on Latvian television.

In the 1980s - 1990s, he participated in the creation of the television program “Program A”, in which he hosted the “Vanguard” section.

From 1991 to the beginning of 1994 he worked at the Artel Theater of Russian Television, heading the music programs department. He was involved in such television programs as “Rock Cafe”, “Silence No. 9”, “Music in the style of Pepsi”, “Exotica”, “Program A”, “Rosmuzimport”.

From 1994 to 1996 he worked on the NTV channel, where he hosted the popular author’s program “Cafe Oblomov”.

In 1997, “Cafe Oblomov” was broadcast on RTR.

Over the years, he hosted the programs “Cultural Goods” and “Kings of Song” on the “Culture” TV channel.

In 2004, he made the program “Signs of Life” for Ren-TV.

In the late 2000s, he hosted the program “Professor Troitsky and Comrade Artyom” on Style TV.

Since 2010, he has been hosting the television program “The Rock Experience: Year after Year” on the Internet television TVJam.

Artemy Troitsky - musician

Alexander Lipnitsky mentions that Artemy Troitsky’s first singing experience took place in 1986 at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, when they, together with Vasily Shumov’s group “Center,” performed the rock opera “Arthur Rambo.” Then, out of embarrassment, the rock master hid behind the speaker.

Artemy Troitsky recorded several songs as part of his own project “Soviet Porn”. The first recording was a cover of (the song “Queen”), recorded together with Roman Belavkin (Solar X).

The second track was the song “Snow from Her Hair,” recorded with musician Oleg Nesterov for the film Down House.

The third track, “I Gave You Spring,” was recorded together with Andrei Samsonov for the collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov “My Friend the Musician.”

With Misha Vivisectors (The Vivisectors) Artemy Troitsky recorded two tracks - “Agent 008” and “Sha Pu Na Na”.

Artemy Troitsky on the radio

The main radio program of Artemy Troitsky is a program that was first called “Uncle Ko’s Ark” (1990-1996), then for a very long time - “FM Dostoevsky” (1996-2013), and since March 2013 has been called “Stereo-Voodoo”. In the program, the author introduces listeners to recently released music that does not fit into the formats of other radio stations and is not published by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music be from different parts of the Earth. Over the years of the program’s existence, it has featured melodies from 80-90% of the world’s countries, including island microstates.

Under the name "Uncle Ko's Ark" the program was broadcast on radio stations: "All-Union Radio", "Radio Maximum" and "Radio 101" (1990-1996).

Under the name “FM Dostoevsky” the program was broadcast on radio stations: “Europe Plus”, “Radio 101”, “Echo of Moscow” and “Finam FM” (1996-2013).

Under the name “Stereo-Voodoo”, 131 episodes of the program were released on Rock FM radio (from March 25, 2013 to December 28, 2015).

Since 2016, Artemy Troitsky plans to work for Radio Imagine.

In 2010, he was suspended from participation in the “Minority Opinion” program of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” when he tried to broadcast the track Noize MC Mercedes S666.

Artemy Troitsky - writer

In 1987, Artemy Troitsky published in England (then in America, Japan and European countries) the book “Back in the USSR” about the history of Soviet rock music, which was published in the USSR under the title “Rock in the Union: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s...” only in 1991.

In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published the audiobook “Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia” read by Artemy Troitsky and Alexander Klyukvin.

Bibliography of Artemy Troitsky:

1987 - “Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s, 80s...” (first published in England under the title “Back in the USSR”, published in the USSR only in 1991). Considered to be the world's first publication dedicated to Russian rock
1990 - “Party. What happened to the Soviet underground"
1990 - “Pop Lexicon”
1999 - “Interesting Times”
2003 - “Moscow “from dawn to dawn”. Party Leader"
2006 - “I will introduce you to the world of Pop...”
2007 - “Back in the USSR” Reissue of the book “Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s, 80s...”
2008 - “Rattling skeletons in the closet” (part I - “The West is rotting”, part II - “The East is turning red”, 2008)
2009 - “Poplex” Revised and expanded edition of the book “Pop Lexicon”
2009 - audiobook “Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia"

Political position of Artemy Troitsky

On February 4, 2012, Artemy Troitsky took part in the rally “For Fair Elections” on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.

On April 3, 2014, in an interview with the “Minority Opinion” program on Ekho Moskvy radio, Troitsky sharply criticized Russia and the president personally for foreign policy in relation to Ukraine, in particular, the “Russian military intervention” in Ukraine in March 2014 and the “Crimean referendum” held on March 16, 2014.

In January 2010, in an interview with the online magazine SLON, he said: “I consider Russian men for the most part to be animals, not even second-class, but third-class creatures.”

Filmography of Artemy Troitsky:

1994 - “Masters of the USSR, or Monkey’s Snout” (NOMFILM)
2000 - “Down House” by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
2003 - “Paul McCartney In Red Square” - cameo
2004 - “Young and Happy” - Voodoo Sorcerer
2005 - Arie - crime boss
2005 - “Day Watch” - guest at a birthday party
2007 - “Tumbler”
2007 - “Gloss” - Mark, thief in law
2011 - Star Pile - Lord God
2014 - Gena Beton - party leader

He was born on June 16, 1955 into an intelligent Moscow family, but his childhood was spent in Prague, since at that time his parents worked in the editorial office of the magazine “Problems of Peace and Socialism,” located in Czechoslovakia.
Staying in the international environment of representatives of leftist orientation determined the range of interests. While still at school, he became interested in rock music and in 1967, when he was twelve years old, he began making a handwritten magazine dedicated to rock music.
After moving to Moscow, he decided to get a “solid” profession and entered the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, from which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in mathematician-economist.
Even during his student years, Troitsky worked as a disc jockey in clubs, and after graduating from college he finally realized that his true calling was rock music.
I tried to organize a recording company together with my partners. But the inability to adapt to the market and combine the release of profitable and unprofitable discs led to the fact that the company is on the verge of closure.
He gained fame as an organizer of rock festivals. At first they were held semi-underground, and already in December 1991 he became one of the organizers of the first Moscow jazz music festival “Gagar in-Party”. But these big events were preceded by a long period of forbidden festivals and apartment concerts.
After the success of the festival, Troitsky began holding similar parties at the cycling track and in other similarly unusual places.
A special place in his life occupies publishing activity. For several years, Troitsky was also the editor of the Russian edition of Playboy magazine. But work in such a famous magazine, unfortunately, ended. As if promoting the accumulated knowledge and skills, for several years Artemy hosted his own program on NTV - “Oblomov Cafe”. It was a kind of dialogue between the host and the invited guest. However, this program also ceased to be published, unable to withstand competition with more profitable projects.

Now Troitsky is passionate about radio journalism and divides his time between two programs - “FM Dostoevsky” on radio “Europe-Plus”, which exists both as a website on the Internet, and the program “Uncle KO’s Ark” on Radio-101. Over time, Troitsky became more selective and learned to limit the scope of his interests as a presenter, although omnivorousness was and remains his main feature as a columnist. Troitsky’s abilities have already been noted by the professional music media award, which he was awarded as the best journalist of 1997. Unlike most of his colleagues. Troitsky practically does not use a computer in his work, because he is afraid to trust technology. But he works on the Internet, although he does not hide the fact that every time he has to “break through the psychological barrier.”