page_title: Sergei Smolin
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Sergei Smolin / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Сергей Смолин, Ольга Свиблова
context_page_description: Sergei Borisovich Smolin aka Smok — Russian producer famous for his work with the band Kvartal, Andrey Makarevich, Igor Butman, Vadym Kholodenko, Aishwarya Majmudar, Clint Eastwood, Billy Gibbons and others.
  Smolin has worked with numerous Russian bands and musicians over the years: Zemfira, Mashina Vremeni, Chaif, Splean, and Bi-2.
  He is the founder and creative director of Arena Marketing Communications and the film company AMALGAMA Studios.
  He is the mastermind and one of the authors of the international cultural initiative India Inside.
context_section_description: Sergei Smolin graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in Transportation Organization and Management. In 1989 he became the producer for the band Kvartal, working in this capacity for the next twelve years. Smolin produced the initial release of the band’s LP “Vse zemnoye stalo strannym” (1992), subsequently issued under the Melodiya label, as well as all of the band’s subsequent releases — “Rezinovye Dzhungli” (1994), “Vkhod dlya Postoronnikh” (1995, Gala/EMI Records) and “Mir Rozovykh Kukol” (1998, DS Records). In 2000, Sergei Smolin created “Vremya Naprokat”, a reading of Andrey Makarevich’s early songs by Artur Pilyavin. The song “Ty ili ya” (originally titled “Solnechniy Ostrov”) spent several weeks at the top of the Russian charts. Smolin parted ways with the band in 2002, following the tragic death of Kvartal’s artistic director Artur Pilyavin, citing “the impossibility of working with this music band without Artur Pilyavin.”
caption: Sergei Smolin and Olga Sviblova at the Igor Vereshchagin's exhibition Given & Stolen
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