Artemy Kivovich Troitsky. Curriculum Vitae

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

Jury member and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals. One of the leading experts in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - "Priboy", "Zenith", "Zakat", which released music little-known in Russia.

Born 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 led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in cafe B-4.

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 research fellow at the Institute of Art History. He was fired, not having time to defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music (moreover, as he wrote in the book "Rattling skeletons in the closet. The East is reddening," he threw the text of the thesis into the trash bin).

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

Since 2001, he has lectured on the subjects "History of the Entertainment Industry" and "Music Press" at the Faculty of "Production and Management in Music Show Business" of the State University of Management.

Conducted a master class in music journalism at the journalism faculty of Moscow State University.

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

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

Artemy Troitsky - journalist

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

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

In 1981, he was a member of the editorial office 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, columnist for the weekly Novaya Gazeta. Monday, editorial board member and author of the musical supplement Moskovsky Bit).

Music columnist for the Moscow Times newspaper.

In 2000, he began editing the column "Saboteur-Daily" on the portal estart.ru, which grew into a separate Internet project of Troitsky "Saboteur-Daily" (currently not supported). He is an expert of the International Expert Council of the Virtual Production Center "Record v 2.0".

In 2010, a conflict broke out between Troitsky and the deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Sergei Buntman over the song Noize MC "Mercedes S666", released in connection with the death of a famous obstetrician V. M. Sidelnikova in an accident.

Artemy Troitsky. Cold season trash parade

In the late 1970s - early 1980s, he organized underground concerts and festivals of Soviet rock groups, among which were Time Machine, Dinamik, Zoo, Kino, A. Bashlachev. He was the organizer and member of the jury of the Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-1980 ”, thanks to which the groups“ Time Machine ”,“ Magnetic Band ”,“ Aquarium ”and“ Autograph ”gained wide popularity. He was one of the first to notice the talent of Vasily Shumov and the "Center" group, whom he helped and took care of in every possible way.

In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR for such groups as AVIA, Zvuki Mu, Games, Television, Bravo, and Automatic Satisfaction.

In 1994 he organized the Britronica Festival of British Electronic Music in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. Organized and patronized the performances of such groups and performers as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, to which the Moscow company Caviar Lounge was involved in organizing the tour. With his submission, the Finnish band Eläkeläiset performed for the first time in Moscow, after which the band's official CD-release was released in Russia and Finland.

In 2003-2004 he was the chairman of the jury of the International Festival of Ethnic Music "Sayan Ring" in Shushenskoye (since 2012 the festival is called "The 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.

Artemy Troitsky on television

Until 1986, together with Janis Shipkevis and Juris Podnieks, he hosted the program “Video Rhythms” on Latvian television, dedicated to video clips.

In the 1980s - 1990s, he participated in the creation of the TV show "Program A", in which he hosted the "Vanguard" column.

From 1991 to the beginning of 1994 he worked in the TO "Artel" Russian television, heading the department of music programs. He was involved in such TV programs as "Rock Cafe", "Silence number 9", "Music in the style of Pepsi", "Exotic", "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" appeared on "RTR".

Over the years, he hosted the programs "Cult goods" and "Kings of the Song" on the Kultura TV channel.

In 2004, he made the Signs of Life show for Ren-TV.

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

Since 2010 he has been hosting the TV program "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 Palace of Culture of the IAE, when they, together with Vasily Shumov's "Center" group, performed the rock opera "Arthur Rambo". Then, out of embarrassment, the rock master hid behind the column.

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 Andrey Samsonov for a collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov "My friend is a musician".

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

Artemy Troitsky on the radio

The main radio broadcast of Artemy Troitsky is the program, which was first called "The Ark of Uncle Ko" (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 the listeners to the recently released music, which does not fit the formats of other radio stations and is not published by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music is from all over the world. Over the years of the program's existence, melodies from 80-90% of the countries of the world, including island micro-states, have been heard in it.

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).

The 131st episode of the program was released under the name "Stereo Voodoo" 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 in the "Minority Opinion" program, where he comments on current social and political news. Artemy Troitsky's visits to Ekho Moskvy are so successful that the journalist from time to time gets into the top-7 of the radio station employees.

In 2010, he was barred from participating in the "Minority Opinion" program of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" while trying 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 to 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 1990 in Italy, England and Holland the book “Tusovka. 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 there was my new book "I will introduce you to the world ... Pop" ".

In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published the audiobook “Back in the USSR. The True Story of Rock in Russia ”as 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 to the USSR", published in the USSR only in 1991). Considered 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 reddening", 2008)
2009 - "Poplex" Revised and enlarged 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 radio Ekho Moskvy, Troitsky sharply criticized Russia and the president personally for its foreign policy towards Ukraine, in particular, the “Russian military intervention” in Ukraine in March 2014 and the 16 March 2014 "Crimean referendum".

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, but third-class creatures."

Filmography of Artemy Troitsky:

1994 - "Masters of the USSR, or Monkey 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" - a guest at the birthday party
2007 - Tumbler
2007 - "Gloss" - Mark, thief in law
2011 - Star Pile - Lord God
2014 - Gene Beton - party leader

0 June 16, 2012, 10:00

Today celebrated rock journalist, music critic, one of the first propagandists of rock music in the USSR - Artemy Troitsky turns 57! Congratulations!

Artem Kivovich Troitsky was born on June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of the famous Soviet historian and political scientist Kiva Maidanik. However, the future music critic spent all his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked for the magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism.

While still at school, Troitsky became interested in rock music, and when he was 12 years old, an enterprising boy took up the creation of his own handwritten magazine about music. It was then that he made his debut as a rock journalist - the boy wrote a review of the album of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper "s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Having moved to Moscow, however, the seventeen-year-old boy decided to get a more "solid" profession and entered the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, from which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in mathematician-economist.

Troitsky did not abandon his love for music and, as a student, worked as a DJ and led discos at Moscow State University for two years. He also went on to write reviews for various magazines, including the cult edition of Peer, for which, for example, in 1975 he wrote an article about the Deep Purple group.

From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Art History. However, he was fired from there, not having time to defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music.

While rock music was out of favor with the authorities of the USSR, Troitsky tried with all his might to punch its way into the masses. In the late 70s and early 80s, he organized clandestine concerts and festivals of young Soviet rock groups, among which were "Time Machine", "Dinamik", "Zoo", "Kino". He was the organizer and member of the jury of the "Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80" festival, thanks to which the groups "Time Machine", "Magnetic Band", "Aquarium" and "Autograph" became widely known. Troitsky was one of the first to notice the talent of Vasily Shumov and the "Center" group, whom he subsequently helped and took care of in every possible way.

In addition to organizing concerts, Artemy continued to engage in journalism: since 1981 he wrote for the samizdat magazine Zerkalo, but his publications were banned in the Soviet press. Troitsky also hosted an English-language music column for the Moscow Times in the 90s.

In 1987, in England (then in America, Japan and European countries) his book "Back to the USSR" was published about the history of Soviet rock music, which was published in our country under the title "Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s , 80s ... "only in 1991. This book went down in history as the first in the world dedicated to Russian rock.

His next book "Tusovka. What Happened to the Soviet Underground" (1990) was completely banned in Russia, it was published only in some European countries. Then Troitsky published an encyclopedia of contemporary pop-music terms "Pop-Lexicon", and in 2009 he supplemented the edition and reissued it under the name Poplex.

Artemy Troitsky with Marianna Maksimovskaya

Troitsky continued his successful career in television: he worked on Latvian TV, where he hosted a program dedicated to the video clips "Video-rhythms". In the 80s-90s he took part in the creation of the TV show "Program A", in which he was the head of the "Vanguard" column.

Despite the fact that Troitsky stutters a lot since childhood, he managed to become a famous TV presenter. Since 1991, he became responsible for all the music broadcasting of Russian television, and in 1994 he switched to the NTV channel, where he began to host the popular author's program "Cafe Oblomov". In 1997, this program, in turn, "moved" to "RTR".

Troitsky also works on the radio: from 1990 to 1996 he produced the author's radio program "The Ark of Uncle Ko". And since 1997 he has hosted the author's radio program "FM Dostoevsky", which is now being broadcast on the radio "Finam FM".

Artemy Troitsky at the "Echo of Moscow"

Thanks to his connections in an international environment, in the late 80s, Troitsky took up the organization of concerts of Soviet rock groups outside the USSR. And in the early 90s he organized the British electronic music festival "Britronica" in Moscow. Artemy said in an interview:

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was an eminently traveling cosmopolitan person. In America, in England, I spent quite a lot of time and made friendships and professional relationships with many of the bigwigs of the time, ranging from Richard Branson to Rupert Murdoch. In general, he was a well-known person in the international context.

Artemy Troitsky in the movie Down House

In 1995, Troitsky received an offer to become the first editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Playboy magazine. The music critic himself believes that at the time he was the most suitable candidate to represent the American bosses of Playboy, despite his lack of editorial experience:

I was young, but not too much, that is, experienced enough. He was not bad, knew English perfectly, was a trendy person. In addition, he was not overburdened with either family or work. My family was then, rather, in absentia: the then wife, Svetlana, lived mainly in London, but I still spent most of the time in Moscow.

The American bosses of the magazine completely entrusted the Russian version of Playboy to Troitsky, the main thing for them was the covers, the presence of the main headings and "girls of the month". The rest of Artemy was not limited in any way. Despite the general tendency of the nascent Russian gloss to "stay away from politics," Troitsky nevertheless took risks and did many interviews with politicians.

Artemy Troitsky in the film "Gloss"

In parallel, Troitsky also collaborated with other publications, including Novaya Gazeta and the Moscow Times. Artemy Troiyky left the post of chief editor of Playboy in 1999.

In the same year, Troitsky continued to organize club concerts of musical groups in Moscow. He has patronized performances by bands and artists such as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others.

Artemy Troitsky with Anfisa Chekhova

In 1999, Troitsky published in Finland a collection of political dissident commentaries on the 1990s in Russia called Interesting Times. In subsequent years, other books by his authorship were also published: "Moscow" from dawn to dawn ". Party man" (2003), "I will introduce you to the world of Pop ..." (2006), "Rattling skeletons in the closet" (Part I - "The West is rotting", part II - "The East is reddening", 2008) and the audiobook "Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia" (2009).

Since 2001, Troitsky has also introduced the younger generation to musical culture: he has lectured on the subjects "History of the Entertainment Industry" and "Music Press" at the Faculty of Production and Management in Music Show Business of the State University of Management. Troitsky also conducts a master class in music journalism at the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, and since 2011 has been giving lectures "Direct speech" on the history of pop music.

Troitsky also appeared in small roles in Russian cinema: he played in the films Down House, Young and Happy, Arye, Day Watch, Tumbler, Gloss and Alias for a Hero.

In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - "Priboy", "Zenith", "Zakat", which released music little-known in Russia.

Artemy Troitsky in the movie "Tumbler"

Troitsky is known for his malicious comments and caustic criticism: he has been sued more than once. First, ex-police major Nikolai Khovansky, and then on May 3, 2011, the Moscow Magistrates' Court opened a criminal case under the article "Insult" against Artemy Troitsky at the request of a former member of the "Agatha Christie" group Vadim Samoilov. On TV, Troitsky called Samoilov a "trained poodle", but the court dismissed the musician's claim, which demanded a million rubles.

However, no litigation darkens the life of Artemy Kivovich, and he is now happy with his family: his fourth wife Vera and children - 11-year-old Ivan and two-year-old Lydia. Troitsky also has a 14-year-old daughter, Alexander, from a previous marriage. The journalist admits that he tries to maintain good relations with all his wives, and his children get along well with each other.

Artemy Troitsky with his wife Vera

With daughter Alexandra

Congratulations again!

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Photo Anna Temerina / website

Born in 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of a prominent Soviet political scientist and historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik. He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism. From 1972 to 1974 he led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in cafe B-4. 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 research fellow at the Institute of Art History. He was fired from there, not having time to defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music. From 1982 to 1983 he was the guitarist for the band Sounds of Mu. One of the founders of the General records label. He is married and has two daughters (Alexandra, born 1998 and Lydia, born in 2010).

Leads a master class in music journalism at the journalism faculty of Moscow State University:

On May 3, 2011, the Moscow Magistrates' Court opened a private criminal case against Artemy Troitsky based on the application of Vadim Samoilov, a former member of the Agatha Christie group. The criminal case was initiated under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Insult").

Journalism

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

Concert organization

In the late 1970s - early 1980s, he organized clandestine concerts and festivals of Soviet rock groups, among which were Time Machine, Dinamik, Zoo, Kino, A. Bashlachev. He was the organizer and member of the jury of the Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80 ”, thanks to which the groups Time Machine, Magnetic Band, Aquarium and Autograph gained wide popularity. He was one of the first to notice the talent of Vasily Shumov and the "Center" group, whom he helped and took care of in every possible way.

In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR for such groups as AVIA, Zvuki Mu, Games, Television, Bravo. In the early 1990s, he organized the Britronica festival of British electronic music in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. Organized and patronized the performances of such groups and performers as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, to which the Moscow company Caviar Lounge was involved in organizing the tour. With his submission, the Finnish band El? Kel? Iset performed for the first time in Moscow, after which the official CD release of this group was released in Russia and Finland.

TV

Until 1986, together with Janis Shipkevis and Juris Podnieks, he hosted the program “Video Rhythms” on Latvian television, dedicated to video clips.

In the 1980s - 1990s, he participated in the creation of the TV show "Program A", in which he hosted the "Vanguard" column. Television critics widely discussed the fact that a person with a pronounced pathology of communication (Artemy stutters strongly since childhood) appears on TV not just as a guest, but as a presenter. From 1991 to the beginning of 1994 he worked in the TO "Artel" of Russian Television, heading the department of music programs. He was involved in such TV programs as "Rock Cafe", "Silence number 9", "Music in the style of Pepsi", "Exotic", "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 appeared on RTR.

Over the years, he hosted the programs “Cult goods” and “Kings of the Song” on the Kultura TV channel. In 2004, he made the Signs of Life show for Ren-TV. In the late 2000s, on "Style TV" he hosted the program "Professor Troitsky and Comrade Artyom".

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 Andrey Samsonov for a collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov "My friend is a musician". The fourth track "Agent 008" was recorded together with Misha Vivisectors (The Vivisectors) and became, as it were, a kind of New Year's address to the people of Artemy Troitsky.

Filmography

1994 - "Masters of the USSR or Monkey Snout" NOMFILM
2000 - Down House by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
2003 - "Paul Mccartney In Red Square" - Himself
2004 - "Young and Happy" - plays a voodoo sorcerer
2005 - Arie
2005 - "Day Watch" by Timur Bekmambetov - a guest at the birthday party
2007 - "Tumbler" by Roman Kachanov
2007 - "Gloss" by Andrey Konchalovsky - Mark, thief in law
2010 - Alias for the hero

Radio

Books

In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published the audiobook “Back in the USSR. The True History of Rock in Russia "as read by A. Troitsky and A. Klyukvin ..

Bibliography

1987 - "Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s, 80s ..." (first published in England under the title "Back to the USSR", published in the USSR only in 1991). It is considered the first edition in the world dedicated to Russian rock.
1990 - Party. What happened to the Soviet underground "(published only in Italy, England and Holland)
1990 - "Pop Lexicon" (Encyclopedia of Contemporary Pop Music Terms)
1999 - "Interesting Times" (published in Finland, a collection of political dissident comments about the 1990s in Russia)
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 ..." under the original title.
2008 - "Rattling skeletons in the closet" (part I - "The West is rotting", part II - "The East is reddening", 2008). A two-volume edition, which includes articles written by Artemy Troitsky in the period from 1974 to 1991. The first volume contains articles on the Western rock scene, the second - to rock in the USSR. The articles are accompanied by the author's comments made especially for this publication.
2009 - "Poplex" Revised and enlarged edition of the book "Pop Lexicon"
2009 - audiobook “Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia "

Quotes

Criticism from musicians

About Artemy Kivovich in the repertoire of the ensemble "Cockroaches!" there is a song called "Mister Music Critic", which questions the value of the work of a music critic, both in general and on the example of A.T.

Troitsky is also mentioned in the song of the Chaif group - "Suburban Blues No. 3" and the rap group Ezekiel 25:17 - "The Street Saga".

At a concert in memory of A. Bashlachev, Yegor Letov accused Artemy Troitsky of destroying Russian rock. Alexander Nepomniachtchi's song "The End of Russian Rock and Roll" also mentions the "Troitsky case" in exactly the same context.

In the context of pop culture, it is mentioned in the song "Gay Pops" by the group "Crematorium".

The Kino group (then still "Garin and Hyperboloids") dedicates to A. T. the song "Blues to Artem Troitsky"

In 1982, the "Cloud Land" group released the song "Grimace, critic!", Where criticism of A. Troitsky is exposed in a poignantly satirical manner.

Awards

Medal "Defender of Free Russia" (1994)
On October 22, 2011, Troitsky was awarded the Tampere Music Award for "the key role he played in the development of Russian alternative rock in the 1980s."

June 16 marks the 55th anniversary of the famous journalist and music critic Artemy Troitsky.

Music critic, journalist Artemy Troitsky (real name Maidanek) was born on June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl. From 1955 to 1962 he lived in Moscow, from 1962 to 1968 - in Czechoslovakia (his parents worked in the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism, which was published in Prague in 28 languages).

Troitsky's debut in music journalism took place in 1967, when he began publishing a manuscript journal on rock music at a Prague school. His first article was about the new Beatles album.

In 1968 the family returned to Moscow, where Troitsky graduated from high school and entered the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, from which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in mathematician-economist.

Back in his student years, Artemy Troitsky moonlighted as a disc jockey in clubs. From 1972 to 1974 he was the host of discos at Moscow State University, where he led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in cafe B-4.

Troitsky was the first disc jockey in Moscow and one of the first propagandists of rock music in the USSR. His first long article on the Deep Purple group was published in 1974 in the magazine "Rovesnik". Later there were a lot of them in different publications, where he wrote articles about rock music: first about Western, and then about Soviet. Troitsky was published in such publications as the magazines Kvadrat, Aurora, Sobesednik, Smena, Ogonyok, in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets, etc.

After graduating from the institute, Artemy Troitsky finally realized that his real vocation was rock music.

1978 to 1983 Artemy Troitsky worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Art History, specializing in the sociology of pop culture. He did not manage to defend his dissertation for the degree of candidate of philosophical sciences in sociology of popular music, since he was fired from the institute.

In the late 1970s - early 1980s. Troitsky started organizing clandestine rock concerts and festivals. In 1980 he was one of the organizers and a member of the jury of the scandalous festival "Tbilisi-80", at which the well-known group "Aquarium" became for the first time.

In 1981 he was a member of the editorial office of the samizdat magazine "Zerkalo", in 1982 - the first edition of the samizdat rock magazine "Ear".

From 1982 to 1983, Troitsky was a guitarist in the show-rock band "Sounds of Mu".

In 1983-1985. Troitsky's articles were banned in the Soviet press. At the same time, his television career began on Latvian television: until 1986, Artem, together with documentary filmmaker Juris Podnieks, hosted the first Soviet program dedicated to video clips - "Video Rhythms".

In the late 1980s. Troitsky was one of the initiators of the "export" of Soviet rock music abroad, was the organizer of the tours of such groups as "AVIA", Zvuki Mu, "Television", "Bravo", "Games", etc. He was also the coordinator of the tours of foreign groups and performers.

In 1987, Artemy Troitsky published in England and six other countries of the world a book about the history of rock and roll in the USSR "Rock in the Soviet Union". In our country it was published only in 1990. In the same year, in Italy, England and Holland, a second book was published entitled "Tusovka. What Happened to the Soviet Underground" (there is no Russian version of the book).

From 1990 to December 1994, Troitsky worked at the radio station "Maximum", where he released the author's program "The Ark of Uncle Ko", since December 1994 he released this program on "Radio 101".

From 1991 to April 1994, Troitsky was the editor-in-chief of music programs for young people at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the creator and host of the "Avangard" section of the musical "Program A", then he was the author and host of the music program "Exotic" (RTV).

In April 1994, Troitsky moved to the independent commercial television company NTV, where he was appointed chief editor of NTV's music programs. Since that time, he has released a weekly musical talk show "Cafe Oblomov". On April 1, 1997, the program "Cafe Oblomov" began broadcasting on the TV channel "Russia" (VGTRK).

In 1995-1999. was the chief editor of the Russian version of Playboy magazine.

At the same time he collaborated with other publications, including Novaya Gazeta (since March 1997, columnist for the weekly Novaya Gazeta. Monday, editorial board member and author of the Moskovsky Bit music supplement), was a music columnist for the Moscow Times ".

In 2000, he began editing the column "Saboteur-Daily" on the portal estart.ru, which grew into a separate Internet project of Troitsky "Saboteur-Daily".

In 2001, Artemy Troitsky starred in a movie for the first time - in the role of Totsky in the cult film Down House. Later he starred in the films "Day Watch", "Gloss" and others.

In early 2003, Troitsky, no longer only a music critic, TV and radio host, but also one of the brightest characters in the gossip column, he began to publish "party-goers" in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Since 2003, Troitsky has been teaching a master class in music journalism at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Prior to that, he was a lecturer at the State University of Management (GUU).

In the mid-2000s, being a specialist in jazz, rock and contemporary music, Artemy Troitsky organized several music labels "Priboy", "Zenith", which released music little-known in Russia. These discs are distributed through a large Soyuz network. He is one of the founders of the General records label.

Since 1998 he has been working on the radio "Echo of Moscow", is the permanent host of the night program "FM Dostoevsky" and the program on contemporary music "Red Corner".

In March 2010, it became known that Troitsky had been taken off the air of Echo of Moscow. He was "excommunicated" from participation in the "Minority Report" program for insisting on being included in the program, which was supposed to be about an accident in Moscow with the participation of the vice president of the company "LUKOIL", "informal" songs and a video clip of a rap artist Noize MC "Mercedes S 666. Drive the chariot". The journalist announced this in his blog. “My main job (at the radio station) is that I create and record the weekly music program FM Dostoevsky, which has been aired on Echo of Moscow for 12 years. I'm rarely there, "he said.


	Voice recording of A.K. Troitsky
	From an interview with Echo of Moscow March 29, 2007
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Artemy Kivovich Troitsky(at birth - Maidanik; genus. June 16, Yaroslavl) - rock journalist, music critic, one of the first propagandists of rock music in the USSR, indie (independent) and electronic music in Russia. Jury member and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals, host of these concerts. One of the leading experts in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - "Priboy", "Zenith", "Zakat", which released music little-known in Russia.

Biography

Born June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of a political scientist and historian-Latin Americanist 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 led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in cafe B-4. In 1977 he graduated with a degree in mathematician-economist. From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Art History. He was fired, not having time to defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music (moreover, as he wrote in the book "Rattling skeletons in the closet. The East is reddening," he threw the text of the thesis into the trash bin).

Conducted a master class in music journalism at the journalism faculty 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 has been living in Tallinn, Estonia, where he teaches, also teaches in Finland and London, and gives 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 acts as a guest in the "Minority Opinion" program. In 2010, a conflict broke out between Troitsky and the deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Sergei Buntman over the song Noize MC "Mercedes S666", released in connection with the death of a famous obstetrician VM Sidelnikova in an accident.

Concert organization

In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR of such groups as AVIA, Zvuki Mu, Games, Television, Bravo, Automatic Satisfaction. In 1994 he organized the Britronica Festival of British Electronic Music in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. Organized and patronized the performances of such groups and performers as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, to which the Moscow company Caviar Lounge was involved in organizing the tour. With his submission, the Finnish band Eläkeläiset performed for the first time in Moscow, after which the band's official CD-release was released in Russia and Finland.

Concert Birthday of Viktor Tsoi

On June 21, 2002, he organized a tribute concert of the "Kino" group - "Viktor Tsoi's Birthday" in the Peterburgsky sports and concert complex, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Viktor Tsoi's birth. As the host of this concert, Moroz Records released a music album with a recording of the concert.

TV

Since 2010, he has hosted the TV program "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 Andrey Samsonov for a collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov "My friend is a musician". With Misha Vivisector (The Vivisectors) Artemy Troitsky recorded two tracks - "Agent 008" and "Sha Pu Na Na".

Filmography

- "Masters of the USSR, or Monkey Snout" (NOMFILM)
- Down House by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
- "Paul Mccartney In Red Square" - cameo
- "Young and happy" - voodoo sorcerer
- Arie - Criminal authority
- "Day Watch" - birthday guest
- "Tumbler"
- "Gloss" - Mark, thief in law
- Star pile - God
- Gene Concrete - party leader

Radio

The main radio broadcast of Artemy Troitsky is a program that was first called "The Ark of Uncle Ko" (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 the listeners to the recently released music that does not fit the formats of other radio stations and is not published by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music is from all over the world. Over the years of the program's existence, melodies from 80-90% of the countries of the world, including island micro-states, have been heard in it.

Under the name "The Ark of Uncle Ko" 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).
The 131st episode of the program was released under the name "Stereo-Voodoo" on the radio "Rock FM" (from March 25, 2013 to December 28, 2015).
Since 2016, Artemy Troitsky plans to work for Radio Imagine.

In 2010, he was barred from participating in the "Minority Opinion" program of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" while trying to broadcast.

Books

In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published the audiobook “Back in the USSR. The True Story of Rock in Russia ”as read by Artemy Troitsky and Alexander Klyukvin.

Bibliography

Criticism from musicians

About Artemiy Kivovich in the repertoire of the ensemble “Cockroaches! "There is a song called" Mister Music Critic ", which questions the value of the music critic's activities both in general and on the example of A. T.

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

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