Dubbed "the father of Russian punk" for his incendiary anti-Communist lyrics, Siberian rocker Egor Letov remains most celebrated for his stint fronting the influential band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. Born Igor Fyodorovich Letov in Omsk on September 10, 1964, he began playing guitar as a teen, drawing influence from the western rock & roll records handed down by older brother Sergei, who went on to become an avant-garde saxophonist of some distinction. At 18 Letov formed his first band, the punk-influenced Posev. With his low, guttural vocals and explicitly political lyrics, he qui...