The band “KRUIZ” (means “CRUISE”) was formed in 1980 and played in pop-rock style, exactly in those time the musicians suggested their manager Matvej Anichkin to make experiments in sounding and wrote some new songs. At first Anichkin treated to all such beginnings with distrust, but all what went on with spectators and listeners, when such music began to play, proved the band to exist.
The first public performance of the band was in September of 1981 in the town of Khar’kov of Soviet Ukraine: KRUIZ threw out briskly bright fancy-dressed and well-made show with power sound, lasers&lights and pirotechniques on scene.
The band rose up by the wave of popularity and spectators presented their love to the collective, because the band sang about real human values without any feigned features and cheap pathos. In that way KRUIZ was subjected to pressing and in informational blockade by Soviet Power. The songs “Spin A Top” and “A Soul” were acknowledged like antisocial and were prohibited, so the band wasn’t shown any time on TV and was impatient to record any official release.

http://discomuzica.narod.ru/KRUIZ_-_Spin_A_Top.ogg
http://discomuzica.narod.ru/KRUIZ_-_A_Soul.ogg
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http://discomuzica.narod.ru/KRUIZ-album.jpg

Anyway the musicians continued their repetitions and wrote new songs: now it’s heard about the band abroad: Swedish TV making a film about KRUIZ, American Christian Sciece Monitor publishing a large material about the band. That was more than enough for the Soviet Ministry Of Culture to deliver an official reprimand: KRUIZ was disbanded and it’s tour was prohibited at all.
In 1986 the changes had came to USSR and Matvej Anichkin formed a new band “KRUIZ-1” which begins to work in (very revolutional in those times for USSR) hard’n’heavy direction.

http://discomuzica.narod.ru/KRUIZ-1_-_Intro.ogg
http://discomuzica.narod.ru/KRUIZ-1-album.jpg