Igor Fyodorovich "Yegor" Letov ( ; 10 September 1964 – 19 February 2008) was a
Russian poet, musician, singer-songwriter, audio engineer and conceptual art painter, best known as the founder and leader of the
post-punk/
psychedelic rock band
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense). He was also the founder of a conceptual art avant-garde project
Kommunizm and psychedelic rock outfit
Egor i Opizdenevshie. Letov is a younger brother of famous free jazz saxophonist
Sergey Letov. He also collaborated with singer-songwriter
Yanka Dyagileva and some other Siberian underground artists as a record engineer and producer.