Kolovrat () is a Russian

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(RAC)/

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band. The band has a cult following among

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and has been described as "famous" in the RAC scene and is the best known of the Russian

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bands. It has been described as a

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group.

History

The band was founded in 1994, in

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by Fedor Volkov and his friends. Denis Gerasimov is a frontman of the group from 2000 year. Originally called Russkoe Getto (, ''Russian Ghetto''), they changed their name to Kolovrat in the autumn of 1997. On November 4, 2009, the band played openly for the first time in the center of Moscow, at the

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as part of the yearly " Russian March".Единство России отпраздновали националисты и «Наши»
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