the ensemble was created in the early 70s at the gomel philharmonic, of course, at that time the ensembled not have its own name. although no, there was a name. anatoly yarmolenko had a group called song over sozh. they were simply an accompanying group, with folk instruments, and russian folk instruments, balalaika there, domry, there bayan, well, they tried to sing esrada, anatoly, in general , did not have his own repertoire yet, he was also at the beginning of glorious things, he used the songs of valery obadinsky, which he generally succeeded in, well, even more so obadinsky. like the sibras took, the house of sobbing guitars, hey, the strings like they played, they enchanted us, hey, hey, this was our first original song, with which we covered our program. they changed domras into guitars. then keyboard instruments were gradually introduced, and when i arrived in 1974 this year collective, we rented some kind of room , we started rehearsing, in general, already from... our own repertoire, then we worked in the homer philharmonic, we imitated the singer, we followed them, we covered