Zahar Borisovich May was born in
Kharkiv,
USSR,
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1969. He wrote his first song "Holodilnik pust" ("Empty refrigerator") in 1987, during first year in the
University of Tartu. In 1988 his family moved to the United States where he continued to make music and worked as a programmer. Three of his albums,
...i nikogo drugogo (1995),
Zavtrak na trave (2000) and
Zolotoy pizdy volos (2002), were recorded here. From 2002 to 2012, he lived in Russia and played with
St. Petersburg group Shiva, along with
Sergey Chigrakov from
Chizh & Co,
Andrey Vasilyev from
Raznyie Lyudi and
Igor Dotsenko and from
DDT. Before moving back to the United States, where he is a citizen, he participated in numerous
protests against the 2011 Russian legislative election results. ==Notes==