Dmitry Spirin

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Spirin (Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Спи́рин; born February 22, 1975, Moscow) is a Russian rock musician, former vocalist of the Moscow pop-punk band Tarakany!

Biography
Spirin was born on February 22, 1975, in Moscow.

Since 1995, he has been the vocalist and also the author of most of the songs of the group Tarakany!

In 2003, together with the director of the group Tarakany! Ilya Ostrovsky, founded an independent record label called FM Silent Records.

In 2004, he also joined the metropolitan street punk band Zuname.

According to personal words, he has a negative attitude towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, “because he is flesh and blood  a gopota”. He took part in charity events in support of those convicted in the Bolotnaya Сase. In 2021, he moved to Budapest, in his own words, this was “connected with the Putin regime”. In 2021, he came out in support of politician Alexei Navalny after his arrest.

He repeatedly opposed the War in Donbas, condemned the annexation of Crimea by Russia, saying that Russia “violated international norms, and thus this territory was annexed illegally”, refused to perform in the annexed Crimea.

Opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Organized a sale of his collection of vinyl and merchandise to buy products for the Ukrainian Center in Budapest and a tour of charity concerts in support of Ukraine.