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Russian Village Boys is a Russian hardbass group. The band was founded in Saint Petersburg in 2014. The four members are all gopniks.

Russian Village Boys
They have a predilection for the Netherlands, which is also reflected in their second album Russian Dutch in the song Love Netherlands. The video of this ended up on the Dutch website Dumpert and was widely viewed. In the Netherlands they performed in Paradiso, 013 and Het Paard. On November 6, 2019, the Russian Village Boys attended the 199th episode of the Dumpertreeten series.

Sources, notes and/or references Russian Village Boys Standard bearers of the russian hardbasse scene, via: 1erang.nl. Accessed on April 25, 2019 paradiso.nl Accessed on 25 April 2019 013.nl Consulted on 25 April 2019 MOLOTOV: Hard Bass School, via Paard.nl. Consulted on April 25, 2019

Accomplishments
In 2015, Russian Village boys changed their activity from party videos to music production. The first serious work was video clip “Do like Russians”, published in the same year.

Futher, until the middle of 2018, boys worked so much to increase a sound quality and to find their listeners. After the release of the Russian-speaking album «ПРИТОН» («HANG OUT») in 2018 guys made a track «I LOVE NETHERLANDS» and filmed video clip, where guys hanging out in the village in Russian style. The video clip «I LOVE NETHERLANDS» became a hit in Netherlands. This fact greatly influenced the future of Russian Village Boys, for several months guys performed in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Nijmegen, Tilburg, and also performed at the Dauwpop festival.

In 2014, Dima and Denis with friends filmed videos of parties in a village near Saint-Petersburg. The videos mainly used the music of Dutch artists in style hardstyle, hardcore, EDM and rap because guys were loyal fans of music culture of this country. They grew up listening to Boaz van de Beatz, Mr.Polska, Jebroer, Paul Elstak, Yellow Claw, The opposites and etc.

About the band
Beside performances Russian Village Boys released a several singles with artists like Mr.Polska and DJ Blyatman. Collaborations such as «Cyka blyat», «Adidas», «Instababe», «Lost in Amsterdam», «Ez Katka», and «Razjebasser» became hits and deserved a lot of public attention.

In January 2019 RVB released their own album «Russian Dutch», dedicated to the story connecting the guys with Netherlands. The album «Russian Dutch» filled with hard sound, energy and rave spirit. There is a track in that album recorded with Rat’n’Frikk, Dutch hardstyle group.