Гражданская оборона

Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Russian: Гражданская Оборона, ), Russian for Civil Defense, or ГО, often referred to as ГрОб, Russian for coffin) were one of the earliest Soviet and Russian psychedelic/punk rock bands.They influenced many Soviet and, subsequently, Russian bands.From the early 1990s, the band's music began to evolve in the direction of psychedelic rock and shoegaze, and band leader Yegor Letov's lyrics became more metaphysical than political.