Bashkortostan

Did you know? As a teenager Yuri Shatunov lived in Children's Home No. 2 in Orenburg, where a young music teacher discovered him. Together they founded Laskovyi Mai — the Soviet Union's first teen boy band. At its peak in 1989 the band played around 2,500 concerts in a single year, often four or five a day, and sent an entire country into a daydream.