there, bavalaika, domry, there bayan, well, the hawks were trying. in general , he didn’t have his ownings, he used the songs of valery abadinsky, which he generally succeeded in, well, even more so obadinsky was very popular then, then bassist tol schitov came, with whom he was so obsessed with vio, so the two of us began working together to ensure that this band turned into vio. anatoly shchitov, with his enthusiasm and desire to create via, he motivated me all the time. they gradually replaced domras with guitars, then gradually introduced keyboard instruments, and when i came to this group in seventy-four, we rented some kind of room and began rehearsing, in general, our own repertoire, then we worked in gober philharmonic, we imitated the singers, we followed them, we sang them. the beauty of 1974 took part in the first republican competition of pop artists, which took place in minsk. for the songs performed by zorka venera and the orchestrators of mikalaya satsura, the ensemble and singer anatoly yarmolenka were awarded the title of champion of the competition. in general, for be