Viktor Tsoi

Also known as Victor Tsoy, Viktor Robertovich Tsoj, Viktor Robertovich Tsoi

Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)

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Viktor Tsoi was a Soviet rock musician who became a cultural icon during the 1980s before his death in a car accident in 1990. He is remembered as an influential figure in Soviet rock music, though the specific details of his artistic impact and legacy would require additional context to fully explain.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1962
Died: 1990
Works: 9

Top works

Zvezda po imeni Tsoi
Posledniĭ geroĭ
My zhdëm peremen
Pesni
Viktor T︠S︡oĭ

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Film & TV

Acting · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music. Born and raised in Leningrad, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic…

Known for

Rock Beyond — self (archive)2021
Tsoi — (archive footage)2020
The Needle Remix — Moro (archive footage)2010
You Just Want to Know — Self2006
When Idols Were Gone — Himself / archive footage2005
Star Factory — Self (Archive Footage)2002
Sunny Days — Himself1996
Last Hero — himself1992
Viktor Tsoi - Concert in Donetsk — Self1990
Sex & Perestroika — Self1990

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Hong Kong
Active from: 1962
Active to: 1990

Discography

Member of

Палата №61978–1979
Кино1981–1990

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 16,244
Total plays: 163,875

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,812x
A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo
· 1951 · cited 10,360x
THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF SUBSTANCES WITH SIMULTANEOUSLY NEGATIVE VALUES OF $\epsilon$ AND μ
· 1968 · cited 9,424x
The Graph Neural Network Model
· 2009 · cited 7,446x
Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
· 2020 · cited 6,640x

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Wikidata facts

Image: Виктор Цой.jpg
Number of children: 1

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start of work period: 1978-00-00
end of work period: 1990-00-00
name in native language: Виктор Робертович Цой
Commons category: Viktor Tsoi
date of birth: 1962-06-21
date of death: 1990-08-15
Commons gallery: Viktor Tsoi

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Article

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Виктор Робертович Цой, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər ˈrobʲɪrtəvʲɪtɕ ˈtsoj]; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of Russian music.

Born and raised in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) to a Russian mother and Koryo-saram father, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. After Kino appeared and performed in the 1987 Soviet film Assa, the band's popularity surged, triggering a period referred to as "Kinomania", and leading to Tsoi's leading role in the 1988 Kazakh new wave art film The Needle. In 1990, after a high-profile concert at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, Tsoi briefly relocated to Latvia with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan to work on the band's next album. Two months after the concert, Tsoi died in a traffic collision.