Lev Rybalkin

"It was a huge euphoria, because we were actually leaving just before it broke out here. We left in October and had a tour by the end of January across Europe with a Broadway show. There were about thirty-five or thirty-six of us - a band, singers from America, UNO, such a well-known dance group that started performing, so they went with us too. And we more or less experienced it by the fact that when we had some... sometimes we had a day off, we rented a car, we came to Prague and we symbolically waved those keys at the Wenceslas square."

"And one fine day the boys came touring, and I actually went on tour at the beginning of the third year and I never went back to school. I just started my artistic life and a lot of traveling. So my first such big trip was far east, to Sakhalin, which is some thirteen thousand kilometers from the city where I stayed at that time. I spent about three quarters of the year there during the worst winter imaginable. The whole region, the east, Siberia and Russia. And by the time I came back, my school somehow ... I put it on the sidelines and I've already started the concert track."