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Nautilus Pompilius , sometimes abbreviated as Nau , was a prominent Russian rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
 formed in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) and active between 1983 and 1997. They were an influential band in the post-punk
Post-punk

Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
, New Wave
New Wave music

New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
 wing of Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 music. Some of their early hits are popularly associated with the Perestroika
Perestroika

is the Russian language term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy....
 period. Their songs accompanied the movie Brother
Brother (1997 film)

Brother is a 1997 in film Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov, Jr. The film sequel Brother 2 was released in 2000....
 (????). Since the group disbanded, lead singer and front man Vyacheslav Butusov
Vyacheslav Butusov

Vyacheslav Butusov , born October 15, 1961, was a lead singer of Nautilus Pompilius , a Russian rock group, until its disbandment. He has since started his own career as a singer....
 has launched a successful solo career.

Ilya Kormiltsev
Ilya Kormiltsev

Ilya Valer'yevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius , one of most popular rock bands in Soviet Union and, later, Russia....
 was a key contributor as a songwriter and producer.







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Nautilus Pompilius , sometimes abbreviated as Nau , was a prominent Russian rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
 formed in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) and active between 1983 and 1997. They were an influential band in the post-punk
Post-punk

Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
, New Wave
New Wave music

New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
 wing of Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 music. Some of their early hits are popularly associated with the Perestroika
Perestroika

is the Russian language term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy....
 period. Their songs accompanied the movie Brother
Brother (1997 film)

Brother is a 1997 in film Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov, Jr. The film sequel Brother 2 was released in 2000....
 (????). Since the group disbanded, lead singer and front man Vyacheslav Butusov
Vyacheslav Butusov

Vyacheslav Butusov , born October 15, 1961, was a lead singer of Nautilus Pompilius , a Russian rock group, until its disbandment. He has since started his own career as a singer....
 has launched a successful solo career.

Ilya Kormiltsev
Ilya Kormiltsev

Ilya Valer'yevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius , one of most popular rock bands in Soviet Union and, later, Russia....
 was a key contributor as a songwriter and producer.

Discography:

Year Russian name English transliteration (translation)
1983 ??????? Pereyezd (Removal)
1985 ????????? Nevidimka (The Invisible Man)
1986 ??????? Razluka (Parting), a name of a Russian folk song featuring in the album
1987-1988 ?? ???? ?? ??????????? (LIVE) Ni Komu Ni Kabel'nost (pun
Pun

A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humour or rhetorical effect....
; nekommunikabel'nost means 'lack of sociability' (a loanword, from communicare and -able-) and nikomu ne means 'to nobody')
1988 ????? ?????? Knyaz' Tishiny (Prince of Silence), after a poem by Endre Ady
Endre Ady

Endre Ady was a Hungary poet. He was one of the most important poets not only in the corpus of Hungarian literature but also in world literature....
1988 ????? (LIVE) Otboy (Retreat)
1989??????? ??? ?????Chelovek Bez Imeni (Man With No Name)
1994???????Titanic
1994???????-LIVETitanic-LIVE
1995??????Kryl'ya (Wings)
1996?????? ????? (LIVE)Luchshie Pesni (Best Songs)
1997?????????Yablokitay (China-apple, Dutch etymologization of Russian apel'sin 'orange fruit')
1997?????????Atlantida (Atlantis)


Among their most well-known songs are: "Walks on water" ("???????? ?? ????"), "Farewell letter" (?????????? ??????, also known as "Goodbye, America!"), "The look from the screen" ("?????? ? ??????"), "Flop-Flop" ("????-????"), "The khaki sphere" ("??? ????? ????"), "Bound by one chain" ("????????? ????? ?????"), "I want to be with you" ("? ???? ???? ? ?????"), "On the shore of the nameless river" ("?? ?????? ?????????? ????"), and "Tutenkhamen" ("??????????").

Nautilus pompilius is the scientific name of a species of cephalopod
Cephalopod

The cephalopods are the mollusc class Cephalopoda characterized by bilateral symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of cephalopod arms or tentacles....
 commonly known as the Chambered Nautilus
Chambered Nautilus

The Chambered Nautilus is the best known species of nautilus. The shell, when cut away as in the photograph in the gallery below, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre, and displays a nearly perfect logarithmic spiral....
.

External links

  • Vyacheslav Butusov's current group (Nautilus Pompilius' front man)