Vyacheslav Butusov

While he was a first-year student at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, he was acquainted with musician Dmitry Umetsky. The two young men were passionate about music and often gathered to play together. This resulted in the recording of Nautilus Pompilius's first album Pereyezd (Relocation) in 1982, which met with little success. In the same year, Butusov met the poet Ilya Kormiltsev. Together, they recorded the band's first mature album, Nevidimka (Invisible) in 1985. Next year their tandem released the record Razluka (Separation), which sparked the band's popularity. The band's last album, Yablokitai, was recorded by Butusov and Kormiltsev in 1996 in England with the participation of Boris Grebenshchikov and English musician Bill Nelson, who was the album's producer.

After Nautilus Pompilius disbanded, Butusov launched his solo career. In 1997, he recorded Nezakonnopozhdenniy AlKhimik doktor faust pernatiy zmey with Yuri Kasparyan, and in 1998, his first solo album, Ovaly. During this years he also had a brief cameo in Russian crime film Brother, directed by his friend Aleksei Balabanov, for which he also wrote and composed the soundtrack.

In 2001 Vyacheslav Butusov founded the band U-Piter with former Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. They recorded 7 albums, the last being Gudgora in 2015. U-Piter was disbanded in 2017.

• Ovaly (1998)
• Tikhe igry (2001)
• Model dlya sborki (2008)

• Most (1985) (with Yevgeniy Dimov as part of the project "Step")
• Nezakonnopozhdenniy AlKhimik doktor faust pernatiy zmey (1997) (with Yuri Kasparyan)
• Elizobarra-Torr (2000) (with Deadушки)
• Zvyodzdniy padl (2001) (with musicians of Kino)[2]

• Brother (1997)
• Brother 2 (2000)
• War (2002)
• Dead Man's Bluff (2005)
• Igla remix (remake of The Needle (1988 film) (2010)