Two Vladimir Gustov's school friends, Alexander Shilnikov (bass) and Boris Kornilov (keyboards), played with V.G. in this group initially. Later, in 1977, they were joined by a singer, Alexander Scheglov (who played later in groups such as "Maraphon" and "Russkie") and a drummer, Pavel Razhivin (trio "Secret"). The musicians played the music of Humble Pie, Deep Purple, and Santana; they also performed their own Art-rock compositions with psychedelic elements, written mostly by Vladimir. The band won several awards at St. Petersburg's musical festivals organized by the local Komsomol leaders. In 1979, Boris Kornilov was drafted in the military and the band was dismantled.
There are several amateur recordings of the "Studio Cascade." Unfortunately, they cannot be re-mastered.

At different times, the group was joined by Valeri Brysilovsky (drums; he also played for "Rossiyane," "Zemlyane," "Arsenal," and "Kvadro"), Vladimir Belousov (drums), and Nelly Cherkasova (violin).

Tele-U, the first solo project of the legendary guitarist Alexander Liapin, was put together in the winter of 1983, when he was joined by the super-guitarist, Vladimir Gustov and several musicians played in other St. Petersburg's Rock-Club bands. Having been though out as a duo of the two blues-guitar virtuosos, the project became a great success. "Tele-U" took part in the second and third rock music festivals. The group won a major award in the category "Musical Performance" at the second festival; both Liapin and Troshchenkov (drums) won awards as best musicians; the song "No to a War" was named among the best of the festival. In 1986, the group seizes to exist due to V.G.'s departure.

Cast:
Alexander Liapin - guitar ("Aquqrium", "DDT", "Pop-mechanica", "Nu, pogodi", "Motor Blues")
Vladimir Gustov - guitar ("Radio-Rock")
Eugeny Oleshev - keyboards ("Radio-Rock")
Sergey "Sam" Semionov - bass ("Rossiane")
Alexander Blagirev - bass ("Jazz-Comfort")
Pete Troschenkov - drums ("Aquarium", "Trilistnik", David Goloschekin group.)
At different times the memebers of the group were:
Ivan Kovaliov (bass), Konstantin Pleshak (keyboards), Eugeny Guberman (drums), Oleg Butman (percussion).

Unfortunately, there are no known recordings of the group except one composition named,"Autumn Tale." The main tracks of it (acoustic guitars and percussion) were recorded in the studio of Sovetskaya hotel and then reworked at the studio of the Leningrad Radio House. Vladimir's album, "Mistery life" contains this version of the composition.

This group was founded by Alexander Revzin, now a famous musical and theater director. The group was made up of a group of best musicians and a ballet group headed by Gennady Senkov. After a brief rehearsal period, the first concert program was released. The group played so-called "cover" music of "Yes", "Foreigner", and "Dire Straits" as well as original compositions written by Vladimir Gustov, Alexei Petrov, and Konstantin Balakirev. "Rendezvous" gave more than 500 performances and toured in Estonia and Latvia. The group's compositions gained popularity all across the country. Among the friends of "Rendezvous" who visited its shows were Alla Pugacheva, Vladimir Kuzmin, Larisa Dolina, members of the theatrical groups "Booff" and "Litzedei," and many others. "Rendezvous" was dissolved in December 1988.

Cast:
Vladimir Gustov: guitar, vocals.
Alexei Petrov: keyboards, vocals.
Konstantin Balakirev: keyboards, vocals.
Georgy Pimenov: base, vocals.
Sergei Doikov: drums.
Alexandr Revzin: percussion.
Mikhail Kostyushkin: saxophone.

At different times, the following vocalists performed as members of the group: Vladimir Kharitonov("Radio-Rock"), Alexandr Donskikh ("Zoopark"), Julia Miroshnichenko, Svetlana Kovalenko, and Irina Makovetskaya.

This group was a project of the famous Leningrad guitarist, recording artist, and song-writer, Vladimir Gustov. In the summer of 1988, Gustov, working in the recording studio with Vladimir Kharitonov, helped this young singer to record a new song called "A new Day." The song became a success and the two decided to continue their cooperation. By the end of the fall, they determined who would play for a new group called "Radio Rock," and by December of the same year, they stared to rehearse. Besides Gustov (guitar, vocals) and Kharitonov (vocals), the group was joined by Valeri Sudakov (bass) Evgeny Oleshev (keyboards), Vladimir Kushnir (keyboards), and Sergei Doikov (drums). In the summer of 1989, "Radio Rock" took part in an annual TV musical festival "Jurmala-89" and Vladimir Kharitonov won a prestigious award. The album "Religion" was released in the same year. The group then completed a successful tour around Russia and Ukraine, and gave great performances in Leningrad together with English groups "Passion" and "Gipsy Queen". An Irish Television company recorded the concerts. V.Kushnir left the group in October 1989 to join "Secret." In January of the next year, Vadim Ryabov (who played previously for "St.Petersburg") has replaced the departed V. Sudakov. In 1990, after a music festival in Paris, Vladimir Kharitonov decided to leave the group. He was replaced by Viacheslav Shkutov. By the end of this year, "R.R." takes place in Alla Pugacheva's program, "Rozhdestvenskie Vstrechi" [Christmas Encounters]. In august 1991, the group opens a concert, "Rock against Tanks" on the Palace Square in Leningrad. The second album, "The Russian Eagle" was recorded in the summer of 1991.
The last album of the group, "The Crime And The Punishment" was recorded in 1995. The group has retained a new drummer, Tigran Panteleev, and V.Shkutov was replaced by a new and talented singer and composer, Igor Balakirev. In 1996, the group was dissolved. Balakirev and Gustov created their new group, "Be Good." E. Oleshev works in a recording studio and also plays, as well as Gustov, in the Max Leonidov Group. Vadim Riabov is a singer in the vocal group "Digest." Tigran Panteleev moved to the U.S. During all these years, the group's manager was Vadim Baikin.

"Col Fire" is a group of friends-musicians who were gathered together by V.Gustov in 1996. The group does not have a permanent set of musicians. Its style is instrumental guitar music that varies from Fusion to Flash Rock. The group live performances are not frequent. The most memorable concerts were performed together with Igor Romanov's and Alexander Liapin's groups.

Together with V.Gustov, the following musicians also played in the group:
Evgeny Oleshev (keyboard)
Tigran Panteleev (drums)
Vladimir Petrov (bass)
Juri Sonin (drums)
Juri Guriev (base).

In March 1996, Maxim Leonidov decided to draw together his own musical group to renew his performing career in Russia. His offer was accepted by Vladimir Gustov (guitar, vocals), Evgeny Oleshev (keyboards, vocals), Juri Guriev (bass, vocals), and Evgeny Lependin (drums, vocals). After two months of practicing, the first concert took place in May 1996 in the "Conti" casino. It was a success that indicated that a new group was born. During that year, at first at the studio "Lenfilm" and then at the new recording studio of Vladimir Gustov, the work on a new album, "Proplyvaya nad Gorodom" ["Soaring above the City"] began. This album was released in September of 1997 and became popular. The hits such as "Videnie" [Vision], "V ee Glazakh Hali-gali" [Hali-Gali in her Eyes] and "Svingovyi Pereulok" [The Swing Street] were played by virtually all radio stations in Russia. At this time, E.Lependin moves to Moscow to work with V.Presniakov. The group started to look for a new drummer and have auditioned several candidates before selecting Juri Sonin who played in several alternative bands.
The hard work of the group started. While touring around the country, the musicians did not forget about the recording job. A new album was released in 1999 and was called "Ne dai emu uiti" [Don't let him go].
The next three albums of Maxim Leonidov have been also recorded at the "Favourite" recording studio. They are: "The Best" (2000) ,"Chetverg" [Thursday] and recently released "Hippopotasm".
Very often, in concerts and during the studio work, tremendous help is offered by an excellent St.Petersburg's saxophonist, Mikhail Zhidkikh, Larisa Dolina (vocals) and Nelly Zakrzhevskaya (violin) have also participated in the recordings.
Four songs from the albums were written by Vladimir Gustov: "Dozhd" [Rain], "Marshruty Zhuravlei" [Routs of the Cranes], "Igra" [The Play] and "1979". V.Gustov is a musical director and sound producer. To learn more about Maxim Leonidov visit his official site at:www.leonidov.ru

"Be Good" was founded after the break-up of the group "Radio Rock" in 1996. Still, this is a recording group, which consists of two musicians: Vladimir Gustov andIgor Balakirev. All the songs written for the two albums were crated by these two people. All their songs are in English. V.G. speaks the language since he was 7 and I.B. lived in the United States for several years and also speaks the language. Orchestrations are done by Vladimir and vocal-related work is performed by Igor. In a near future, the group is going to start to perform live.