Yuri Dmitriyevich Kasparyan is the former guitarist of the Russian rock band Kino

Kino (band)

Kino was a Soviet rock band headed by Viktor Tsoi. It was one of the most famous Soviet rock groups of the 1980s.-History:The band was formed in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR Kino was a Soviet rock band headed by Viktor Tsoi. It was one of the most famous Soviet rock groups of the...

 and was also a member of Vyacheslav Butusov's

Vyacheslav Butusov

Vyacheslav Butusov , born October 15, 1961, was a lead singer of Nautilus Pompilius, a Russian rock group, until its disbandment. He has since started his own career as a singer.-Biography:...

 group Nautilus Pompilius

Nautilus Pompilius (band)

Nautilus Pompilius , sometimes nicknamed Nau , was a prominent Soviet/Russian rock band formed by the lead singer Vyacheslav Butusov and bassist Dmitry Umetsky while the two studied in Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture . The band, with its various incarnations, was active between the years 1983...

. With Butusov he jointly wrote the 1997 album "Незаконнорожденный/Nezakonnorozhdennyy" (Bastard).

From 1981 until 1990 he played guitar for the band Kino. In the mid-1980s he married Joanna Stingray (born: Joanna Fields).