Rock band BI-2 was founded in Belarus city of Bobrujsk by Aleksandr Uman (Shura BI-2) and Igor Bortnik (Lyova BI-2). Though the band had been created in 1988, it gained its first real success in 1999 with the help of their new producer Alexander Ponomaryov. In 2000, songs «Варвара» ("Varvara") and «Серебро» ("Silver") from the album entitled BI-2 became hits nationwide but the track «Полковнику никто не пишет» ("No One Writes to the Colonel") was the biggest blast of them all – the composition featured in a Брат-2 (Brother-2) movie helped BI-2 being discovered to the Russian music stage literally overnight. The next hit, «Последний герой» ("The Last Hero"), came from the Мяу Кисс ми (Meow Kiss Me) album in 2001 that was sold gold in Russia as well as Inomarki album in 2004. In 2006, the band released their album Moloko inspired by Kubrik’s Clockwork Orange. Four years later, BI-2 decided to experiment with arrangement and began to perform together with a symphonic orchestra. The band received the MTV Russia Music Award for Best Rock Act in 2007. The band had fruitful collaborations with Splean band and Alexandr Vasiliev (on the track «Феллини» ("Fellini") in 2001, «Остров» ("Island") featuring Picnic in 2011, «Птица на подоконнике» ("The Bird on the Windowsill") with Diana Arbenina and Nike Borzov in 2016, and «Пора возвращаться домой» ("It’s Time to Come Back Home") together with Oxxxymiron in 2017.
