Auktyon

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Auktyon
Background information
Also known as	Блю Бойз (Blue Boys) (1980–1981) Параграф (Paragraph) (1981) Фаэтон (Phaeton) (1981–1983) Аукцион (Auction) (1983–1988)
Origin	Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Genres	Alternative rock, new wave, post-punk, jazz rock, punk jazz, freak folk, experimental rock, art rock
Years active	1978–present
Members	Leonid Fedorov Oleg Garkusha Viktor Bondarik Dmitriy Ozersky Nikolay Rubanov Boris Shaveinikov Mikhail Kolovsky Vladimir Volkov Yuriy Parfyonov
Past members	Evgeniy Chumichev Sergey Gubenko Sergey Lobachev Arkadiy Volk Sergey Rogozhin Kirill Miller Igor Cheridnik Nikolay Fedorovich Igor Skaldin Pavel Litvinov Dmitriy Matkovsky Vladimir Vesyolkin Evgeniy Dyatlov
Website	http://www.auktyon.ru/

Auktyon (Russian: АукцЫон, pronounced [ɐʊktsɨˈon]. Auktsyon) is a Russian alternative rock band from Saint Petersburg.

The band was founded by Leonid Fyodorov [ru] at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad.^[1] Though they originally played post-punk and new wave, the group came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature.^[1]

Auktyon was particularly popular from 1987 through 1995, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for Leningrad.^[1] The group continues to play together and to release new albums. They toured the United States in 2006^[2] in support of their first US release, the album Pioneer. The group returned to the US in 2008 when they released the album Girls Sing.^[3][4][5]