Vladimir Sergeyevich Begunov ( rus, Владимир Сергеевич Бегунов}; born 25 March 1959) is a Russian guitarist, songwriter, founder and permanent member of the

Chaif Chaif (Чайф) is a Russian rock band formed in 1984 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Russia, by Vladimir Shakhrin and Vladimir Begunov. Their name is derived from the word ''chai'', meaning tea, and ''kaif'' (slang word), meaning pleasure. ...

band.

Biography

Vladimir Begunov was born in the

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to a family of an accountant and an aircraft engineer. As a teenager his family moved to the small town Lakhta near

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. At that time he played in a Tsunami band. Among his favourite bands were

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and T. Rex. When he was in 10 grade his family moved to Sverdlovsk, where he became Vladimir Shakhrin's classmate. In 1978–1980 he served in the

Army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

reaching the military rank of a sergeant. In 1981 he graduated from Sverdlovsk building technical secondary school. In 1985, he became a member of

. He has also played the

contrabass Contrabass (from it, contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchest ...

in Pyotr Beryozkin's

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band. Begunov played in the roles of the forest dryaba Bryaka in the radio play "Zhuzha. Drandalyot's travelling" which is based on Aleksandr Korotich's tale in 2009 and in that of the herald in a movie called "Legenda Ostrova Dvid" in 2010. Begunov was awarded the insignia of the Merit of Sverdlovskaja Oblast.

References

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