Zoopark (Russian: Зоопа́рк) was one of the founding rock groups which began the Russian rock movement. The group was founded in 1980.[1] It consisted of singer-songwriter Mike Naumenko, guitarist Aleksandr Khrabunov and a varied group of artists. The first album recorded was All Brothers are Sisters with Boris Grebenshikov in 1978. They recorded on the banks of the Neva River in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a "choire" of homeless people playing percussion on metal cans. Naumenko was a rock outcast, concentrating his work on electrified hard-core blues. His inspirations included T. Rex and B.B. King.
Naumenko died in 1991,[1] cutting his career short and relegating him to the pantheon of largely unknown Russian rock musicians.