Oleg Chilap - Wikipedia

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O! Chilap or Oleg Viktorovich Chilap (Russian: Олег Викторович Чилап; born 2 August 1959 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian rock musician, poet and writer. He is the leader of Optimalniy Variant Russian band. He is one of the best-known rock poets in Russia.^[1]

O! Chilap's lyrics and music are imbued with the spirit of the liberated generation, a spirit he describes as a "flux of culture", where Pink Floyd coexists with Debussy, and the father of Russian literary avant-garde Khlebnikov with Van Gogh.^[2]

In 1999 and 2000 he was awarded the President's grant for Literature. His book, 8 ruk, chtobi obnyat' tebya became a bestseller in Russia.^[3]