Lyapis Trubetskoy

Lyapis Trubetskoy (, ) was a Belarusian rock band. It was named after comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used pseudonym Trubetskoy.
Received various awards from RAMP, «Рок-коронация», «Чартова дюжина», «Степной волк», ZD Awards, Ultra-Music Awards.
On 17 March 2014 frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced that the band will be dissolved, on 31 August the band ceased to exist and broke up in two ensembles: Brutto and Trubetskoy.
History.
Popularity in the 2000s.
In January 2009 their album "Manifest" became "the best album of the year 2008" according to the "West Records" top-list and "The Lenta" music review. In August 2009 they played as headliners at the “Be Free” festival organized by the European Radio for Belarus in Chernihiv (Ukraine) together with Vopli Vidopliassova, Hair Peace Salon, and more Belarusian and Ukrainian rock bands. Lyapis Trubetskoy was one of the bands that performed (in December 2013) for Euromaidan-protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Dissolution.
Frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced mid-March 2014 that the group would cease to exist the next 1 September. The groups farewell concert was given in the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine on 26 August. Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko was present at this concert.
Former band members led by Pavel Bulatnikaw formed a new band "Trubetskoy Minsk". Siarhei Mikhalok founded the band Brutto.
Awards.
They won sixteen awards between 1996 and 2009 in Belarus and Russia.