Grazhdanskaya oborona

Grajdanskaya Oborona (Russian: Гражданская оборона, "Civil Defense"), abbreviated GO (Го or ГО) by the group itself, is a group of Russian rock music. The group was founded in December 1984 by Egor Letov in Omsk>. The group was originally composed of:

Since 1990 the group consists of:

The two first albums of the group, Поганая молодёжь (Dirty young people) and Optimism (Optimism), are the basis of their present success. However, at the time of their writing, between 1982 and 1985, these songs had only a very small impact, and their first album was censored. Letov was sent for military service, then interned in a psychiatric hospital for antisovietism for 3 months.

Both albums were restored and re-recorded in 1989.