Любэ

The Lyube group is a project that Igor Matvienko planned to implement in 1988. After a long search for a worthy candidate for this role, it was decided to make Nikolai Rastorguev, a member of the Leisya Pesnya ensemble, as a soloist.

However, the name of the group was not immediately invented. The collective's birthday is considered to be January 14, 1989, when the recording of their first songs "Lyubertsy" and "Old Man Makhno" began.

Actually, the first song also entailed the name of the group. However, Nikolai Rastorguev expanded the meaning of this word, because "lyube" in Ukrainian means "any, any, different".