page_title: Russian culture
section_title: Modern music
hierarchical_section_title: Russian culture / Performance arts / Modern music
caption_attribution_description: English: Arthur Berkut, vocalist of heavy metal band Aria, performing at a show in Vladivostok Русский: Артур Беркут, вокалист рок-группы Ария на концерте во Владивостоке
context_page_description: The culture of the ethnic Russian people has a long tradition of achievement in many fields, especially when it comes to literature, folk dancing, philosophy, classical music, traditional folk-music, ballet, architecture, painting, cinema, animation and politics. In all these areas Russia has had a considerable influence on world culture. Russia also has a rich material culture and a tradition in technology.
  Russian culture grew from that of the East Slavs, with their pagan beliefs and specific way of life in the wooded, steppe and forest-steppe areas of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Major influences on early Russian culture and Slavic people in Russia included:
  nomadic Turkic people and tribes of Iranian origin through intense cultural contacts in the Russian steppe
  Finno-Ugric peoples, Balts and Scandinavians through the Russian North
  Goths in the Pontic littoral, who left linguistic traces in the early Russian dialects
  the people of the Byzantine Empire with whom Old Russia maintained strong cultural links
context_section_description: Since the late Soviet times Russia has experienced another wave of Western cultural influence, which led to the development of many previously unknown phenomena in the Russian culture. The most vivid example, perhaps, is the Russian rock music, which takes its roots both in the Western rock and roll and heavy metal, and in traditions of the Russian bards of Soviet era, like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Saint-Petersburg (former Leningrad), Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk) and Omsk became the main centers of development of the rock music. Popular Russian rock groups include Mashina Vremeni, Slot, DDT, Aquarium, Alisa, Kino, Nautilus Pompilius, Aria, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Splean and Korol i Shut. At the same time Russian pop music developed from what was known in the Soviet times as estrada into full-fledged industry, with some performers gaining international recognition, like t.A.T.u. in the West, who have been said to be the most influential artists to ever come out of Russia, or Vitas in China. Another kind of music, Hardbass, has become an internet meme.
caption: Heavy metal band Aria is one of the leading Russian rock performers.
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