Diskoteka Avariya

Diskoteka Avariya

Diskoteka Avaria (Russian: Дискотека Авария - Disaster Discotheque) are a Russian band from Ivanovo, Russia. The trio consists of Anna Hohlova (Хохлова Анна), Aleksey Borisovich Serov (Серов Алексей Борисович) and Aleksey Olegovich Ryzhov (Рыжов Алексей Олегович). Its former members include vocalist Nikolay Stagoranovich Timofeev (Тимофеев Николай Стагоранович), who left in July 2012, and rapper Oleg Yevgenyevich Zhukov (Олег Евгеньевич Жуков), who died on February 9, 2002 of cancer.

Although Avaria knew only moderate success in Russia during the 1990s, they are considered to be pioneers of house music in that country, as the genre only started to appear there around 2000. Following Zhukov's death in 2002, the trio slowly lost original popularity and oriented themselves into a mainstream electropop movement.