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The music of Adygea has been evolved through various music institutions. Bashkir folk music uses kurai as it’s most traditional and important instrument. The Buryat folk music uses the morin khur as its instrument which is a 2 stringed horsehead fiddle. Most of the Buryat folk songs are epics which claim to be the last song of a local hero. Uragsha is a popular Buryat folk band that combines Russian rock music with Buryat folk music.

Said Khachukayev is notable for his role in promoting music in Chechnya during the Chechnyan rebellion in the 1990’s. Gotfrid Hasanov is a popular Dagestan folk music composer who wrote the first Dagestani opera Khochbar in 1945. The Karelian folk music is influenced by Finnish folk music.  The bandura is the most famous Ukrainian traditional instrument.

The traditional Russian folk instruments are livenka(accordion) and woodwinds like zhaleika, svirel and kugikli, also numerous percussion instruments like buben, bubenci, kokshnik, korobochka, lozkhi, rubel, treschetka, vertushka and zvonchalka.

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After the fall of the USSR, American pop music began influencing the music of Russia and thus Russian pop music was born. Pop, rock and roll, and hard rock were the genres that most affected Russian pop music.

Russian rock music is also known as Perestroika rock music. These underground rock bands began to be formed in the 80’s mainly in Moscow. Many of them are popular even with the youth of today. Such bands include DDT, Aria, and Alisa being the most popular ones. Others are Kino, Sektor Gaza, Televizor, Zvuki Mu etc. Russian rock had a decline since the mid 90’s when other genres of American pop music began to be introduced. These included heavy metal, electronic, folk rock, death metal, classical crossover, ska punk etc.

The popular bands of today include Aria, Alisa, DDT, Leningrad, Zvuki Mu, Ariaphonics, Mortem, Melnitsa, Kipelov etc.

Some famous Russian pop songs are:

• Lost paradise by Aria
• Alien by Aria

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In earlier days, opera, ballet and classical music were extremely popular in Russia. Mikhail Glinka pioneered the operas during the 19th century. Glinka and the composers who made up The Mighty Handful after him that is Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin and César Cui were often influenced by Russian folk music and tales. Another famous Russian composer was Tchaikovsky. He became famous in the international musical arena as well for his ballads.

In the early part of the 20th century a very popular genre was the romances especially of Italian, Russian, Caucasian and Gypsy styles. Most of these romances were sung in operas and the most popular singer then was Fyodor Shalyapin. The Soviet Era produced many prominent musicians like critically acclaimed pianist Vladimir Horowitz, in spite of oppression from the government.

Some popular Russian operas / ballads are:

1. Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka
2. A life for the Tsar by Mikhail Glinka
3. Swan lake by Tchaikovsky
4. The nutcracker by Tchaikovsky