Childhood and youth of Anastasia Polevaya
Anastasia Poleva was born in the Urals in December 1961.
A number of incompetent sources on the Internet indicate the date of birth as December 1, 1958, and the place of birth as Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), but this information is not true. Nastya studied at a regular school in the city of Pervouralsk, and did not show any musical or creative abilities as a child. After graduating from school, she entered the Faculty of Architecture of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute. My passion for rock music began while studying at the institute. Rehearsals with classmates eventually resulted in full-fledged creativity. It was then that Poleva became friends with the future stars of the Ural rock scene.
“Track” by Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva first made a name for herself in 1980, founding the rock group Trek.
The band not only performed successfully in their native Sverdlovsk, but also performed an unprecedented act at that time - “touring” to Moscow. Home-recorded tapes with Trek songs scattered throughout the Union in a matter of days. The trip to Moscow was not in vain for the team: “Track” was subjected to severe criticism from one of the then mouthpieces of youth, Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication's reporters saw “crime” in Nastya Poleva’s work.
Nastya Poleva and Boris Grebenshchikov
Black PR - the best type of PR for a Soviet rock band - did its job: in 1980-1983, Trek became the flagship of the Sverdlovsk rock club. This, however, did not prevent the team from breaking up in 1983. For three years, Nastya Poleva did not appear on the big rock stage.
Nastya Poleva
Childhood and youth of Anastasia Polevaya
Anastasia Poleva was born in the Urals in December 1961.
A number of incompetent sources on the Internet indicate the date of birth as December 1, 1958, and the place of birth as Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), but this information is not true. Nastya studied at a regular school in the city of Pervouralsk, and did not show any musical or creative abilities as a child. After graduating from school, she entered the Faculty of Architecture of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute. My passion for rock music began while studying at the institute. Rehearsals with classmates eventually resulted in full-fledged creativity. It was then that Poleva became friends with the future stars of the Ural rock scene.
“Track” by Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva first made a name for herself in 1980, founding the rock group Trek.
The band not only performed successfully in their native Sverdlovsk, but also performed an unprecedented act at that time - “touring” to Moscow. Home-recorded tapes with Trek songs scattered throughout the Union in a matter of days. The trip to Moscow was not in vain for the team: “Track” was subjected to severe criticism from one of the then mouthpieces of youth, Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication's reporters saw “crime” in Nastya Poleva’s work.
Nastya Poleva and Boris Grebenshchikov
Black PR - the best type of PR for a Soviet rock band - did its job: in 1980-1983, Trek became the flagship of the Sverdlovsk rock club. This, however, did not prevent the team from breaking up in 1983. For three years, Nastya Poleva did not appear on the big rock stage.
Collaboration between Nastya Polevaya and Nautilus Pompilius
However, Nastya’s return to the rock scene was carefully planned and took place in the summer of 1986.
Nastya took part in the famous first Sverdlovsk rock festival. Polevaya’s songs of that time, close to late art rock, were written by Ilya Kormiltsev, the lyricist of “Nautilus” and “Urfin”. Nastya Polevaya’s backing group included exclusively Ural rock stars: Egor Belkin (“Urfene Juice”), Dmitry Umetsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexey Mogilevsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexander Pantykin (“Urfene Juice”).
Nastya Poleva - Dance on Tiptoe Excellent melody and professionalism of the session musicians made Nastya's performance a real highlight of the festival. At the same time, the group was assigned a name corresponding to the name of the vocalist. However, the group, assembled from musicians from such successful projects at that time as “Nau” and “Urfin”, turned out to be incompetent - no one was going to work with Poleva to the detriment of their own groups.
Anastasia Poleva and rock group “Nastya”
In 1987, at the second Sverdlovsk rock festival, “Nastya” again appeared on stage with an updated line-up. After the festival, the team recorded their first album, “Tatsu”. The album would undoubtedly have been on the first lines of the Soviet charts, if such existed at that time. The press called Nastya “the Soviet Kate Bush.” The band's next performance took place at the Podolsk rock festival and turned out to be a failure - the group took the stage instead of the announced performance of Urfin. group Nastya (Poleva) at the INVASION In the fall of 1988, the composition of “Nastya” was completely renewed. Of the session musicians, only Yegor Belkin remained. The group's tour of the Soviet Union in 1989 turned out to be more than successful. “Nastya” managed to perform on television, and the band’s songs were heard on the radio. March 1989 was marked by the release of the second album “Noa-Noa”. The lyrics were written mainly by E. Kormiltsev. In September 1989, Nastya Polevaya’s group performed in Moscow on the same stage with “Chaif” and “April March”. In 1990, a tour of Germany and the Netherlands took place, and the album “Noah Noah” was released at the same time.
Moving Nastya Polevaya to St. Petersburg
The last album recorded in Sverdlovsk was “Bride” in 1993. After his recording, Poleva moved to live in St. Petersburg. In 1995, the successful cover album “Dancing on Tiptoes” was released, after which the group went on a two-year sabbatical.
Nastya Poleva now continues to actively tour
The band's next album was recorded together with Yegor Belkin in 1997. The record, called “Sea of Siam”, is enthusiastically received by listeners and rock critics. The album is still on the list of the most stylish records of Russian intellectual rock.
Personal life of Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva has long been associated with Yegor Belkin not only by creativity.
Soon after moving to St. Petersburg, Yegor and Nastya got married. They have no children. The group's latest albums - "Herbarium" (2000), "NeNastye" (2002), "Through Fingers" (2004), "Bridges over the Neva" (2008) - were completely recorded and mixed by Yegor Belkin. The lyrics in these albums are primarily by Polevaya, and the musical parts were created by Egor. The sound engineer for the albums was one of the Nastya musicians, Igor Sorokin. Yegor Belkin also took on the functions of the group's producer. One of Nastya Poleva’s latest works is participation in the project of the BI-2 team “Odd Warrior”. Together with Leva Bi-2 and Shura Bi-2, Anastasia performed the song “Blues,” which became another hit and consistently held the top lines of the Russian charts.
Collaboration between Nastya Polevaya and Nautilus Pompilius
However, Nastya’s return to the rock scene was carefully planned and took place in the summer of 1986.
Nastya took part in the famous first Sverdlovsk rock festival. Polevaya’s songs of that time, close to late art rock, were written by Ilya Kormiltsev, the lyricist of “Nautilus” and “Urfin”. Nastya Polevaya’s backing group included exclusively Ural rock stars: Egor Belkin (“Urfene Juice”), Dmitry Umetsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexey Mogilevsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”), Alexander Pantykin (“Urfene Juice”).
Nastya Poleva - Dance on Tiptoe Excellent melody and professionalism of the session musicians made Nastya's performance a real highlight of the festival. At the same time, the group was assigned a name corresponding to the name of the vocalist. However, the group, assembled from musicians from such successful projects at that time as “Nau” and “Urfin”, turned out to be incompetent - no one was going to work with Poleva to the detriment of their own groups.
Biography
In 1981, while studying at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, she first performed as a vocalist of the Sverdlovsk hard rock band Trek. After the breakup of the group in 1983, she began solo work.
At the beginning of 1985, it became part of Nautilus Pompilius. She performed with them in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk[1].
In June 1986, she performed at the 1st Sverdlovsk Rock Festival with her own program, written mainly based on the poems of Ilya Kormiltsev. The composition of her group, which was called “Nastya”, included: Igor “Egor” Belkin (“Urfin Djus”) - guitar, Dmitry Umetsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”) - bass, Alexey Mogilevsky (“Nautilus Pompilius”) - saxophone, Victor “Pifa” Komarov (“Nautilus Pompilius”) – keyboards, Alexander Pantykin (“Urfene Djus”) – percussion, Vladimir “Zyama” Nazimov (“Nautilus Pompilius”) – drums[2].
The group's next performance took place a year later, in May 1987 at the II Sverdlovsk Rock Festival. Umetsky's place was taken by Vadim Shavkunov (bass), keyboard player Alexey Khomenko (Nautilus Pompilius) came instead of Komarov. With this composition, in the summer of 1987, the debut magnetic album “Tatsu” was recorded at the student television studio of the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural State University.
By the fall of 1988, the composition of the group had changed again. Belkin and Shavkunov remained from the previous lineup, they were joined by keyboardist Gleb Vilnyansky and drummer Andrei Kolomeets. With this lineup, the group went on tour at the beginning of 1989 and recorded the second magnetic album “Noah Noah” in March 1989[2]. By this time, cooperation with Ilya Kormiltsev was terminated and almost all the lyrics for the album were written by his brother Evgeniy, who worked with the April March group. Video clips were shot for the songs “In Someone Else’s Face”, “Noa Noa”, “March of the Floating Ophelias”, “Stratosphere” and “Black Sail”. A little later, the songs “Stratosphere” and “Noa Noa” appeared on the flexible record of the Krugozor magazine (issue No. 6, 1991).
In the summer of 1989, Shavkunov left and was replaced by bassist Vyacheslav Dvinin (“Association”) and second guitarist Andrei Vasiliev.
In the fall of 1988, Nastya Poleva received the prize for best vocalist at the Miss Rock festival in Kyiv[1]. At the end of 1988, Nastya Poleva took fourth place in the “Soundtrack” hit parade.
In September 1989, Nastya participated in the “Rock of Clear Water” movement together with “Chaif” and “April March”, and also became one of the heroes of the film “Dream in the Red Chamber”[2].
In 1990, they toured the Netherlands and Germany[2].
In 1991, the album “Noah Noah” was reissued on vinyl.
In 1992, the album “Bride” was released. The original master disc with the album was stolen during Nastya's robbery in Sverdlovsk, and the album was recorded from a copy. Three video clips were shot: “Love and Lies” (dir. Oleg Rakovich), “For Happiness” (dir. Vladimir Khotinenko), “Flying Frigate” (dir. Oleg Rakovich).
In 1993, after a slight change in composition (keyboardist Gleb Vilnyansky was replaced by Igor Grishenkov from the April March, bassist Vyacheslav Dvinin went abroad, he was replaced by Vadim Shavkunov, who had returned to the team), Nastya and Yegor Belkin moved to St. Petersburg. During the year, Poleva did not write new songs. From the previous session, Nastya had only two non-album compositions left - “Dance on Tiptoes,” which was first performed in 1989 at the IV Festival of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club and received the Audience Award, and “Gray Roses.” A year later, at the Miss Rock-90 festival in Kyiv, “Dance on Tiptoe” was recognized as the best composition.
In 1994, the fourth album was recorded, called “Dancing on Tiptoes.” An animated video clip was shot for the song “Voices”.
In 2020, she recorded the song “Zhuzhas” for the children’s project “Zhuzha. Songs and Dances”, released on vinyl record and CD.
Anastasia Poleva and rock group “Nastya”
In 1987, at the second Sverdlovsk rock festival, “Nastya” again appeared on stage with an updated line-up. After the festival, the team recorded their first album, “Tatsu”. The album would undoubtedly have been on the first lines of the Soviet charts, if such existed at that time. The press called Nastya “the Soviet Kate Bush.” The band's next performance took place at the Podolsk rock festival and turned out to be a failure - the group took the stage instead of the announced performance of Urfin. Nastya Poleva - For nothing (dedicated to Sergei Bodrov) In the fall of 1988, the composition of “Nastya” was completely renewed. Of the session musicians, only Yegor Belkin remained. The group's tour of the Soviet Union in 1989 turned out to be more than successful. “Nastya” managed to perform on television, and the band’s songs were heard on the radio. March 1989 was marked by the release of the second album “Noa-Noa”. The lyrics were written mainly by Ilya Kormiltsev. In September 1989, Nastya Polevaya’s group performed in Moscow on the same stage with “Chaif” and “April March”. In 1990, a tour of Germany and the Netherlands took place, and the album “Noah Noah” was released at the same time.
Professional musical activity
In 1984, the Trek team broke up, and the girl went into a prolonged depression. Her little experience did not allow her to go on an independent voyage, and other groups did not invite Nastya to join them. However, over time, she began to come to her senses and turned to her friends to write several songs for her.
In 1985, songs were written for Nastya for the first time by Vyacheslav Butusov. Other songwriters turned down the young, aspiring singer. Thanks to Butusov, she learned to play the keyboard. Then Nastya had to independently compose melodies for her songs. Over time, there were several dozen of them.
In 1986, Nastya Poleva was officially enrolled in the ranks of rock performers. A little later, the girl was able to create her own rock band, calling it with her own name “Nastya”.
In 1987, Polevaya and her group managed to release their first album called “Tatsu”. The cover featured the singer herself. The next year, Anastasia performed at a congress of rock performers in one of the Sverdlovsk clubs. Then she won the Miss Rock competition in Kyiv (Ukraine).
In 1989, the Nastya team released another album, “Noah Noah”. After touring the country, the group shoots several videos for songs from this album.
In the same 1989, the girl tried her hand at writing texts. One of Anastasia’s first original songs won a victory at a rockers’ festival in the friendly capital of Ukraine – Kyiv.
In the 90s, the singer and the group toured Russia, then they went to Germany, and then to Holland. In both countries they were received with warmth and love, the halls and stadiums were crowded with fans and ordinary lovers of rock music.
Another album that was released by the Nastya group is “Bride” (1992). The most successful and favorite compositions of fans were the songs “Flying Frigate” by Nastya Poleva and “For Happiness.”
Moving Nastya Polevaya to St. Petersburg
The last album recorded in Sverdlovsk was “Bride” in 1993.
After his recording, Poleva moved to live in St. Petersburg. In 1995, the successful cover album “Dancing on Tiptoes” was released, after which the group went on a two-year sabbatical. Nastya Poleva now continues to actively tour
The band's next album was recorded together with Yegor Belkin in 1997. The record, called “Sea of Siam”, is enthusiastically received by listeners and rock critics. The album is still on the list of the most stylish records of Russian intellectual rock.
Personal life of Nastya Polevaya
Nastya Poleva has long been associated with Yegor Belkin not only by creativity.
Soon after moving to St. Petersburg, Yegor and Nastya got married. They have no children. The group's latest albums - "Herbarium" (2000), "NeNastye" (2002), "Through Fingers" (2004), "Bridges over the Neva" (2008) - were completely recorded and mixed by Yegor Belkin. The lyrics in these albums are primarily by Polevaya, and the musical parts were created by Egor. The sound engineer for the albums was one of the Nastya musicians, Igor Sorokin. Yegor Belkin also took on the functions of the group's producer. One of Nastya Poleva’s latest works is participation in the project of the BI-2 team “Odd Warrior”. Together with Leva Bi-2 and Shura Bi-2, Anastasia performed the song “Blues,” which became another hit and consistently held the top lines of the Russian charts.
