Аквариум (Aquarium; often stylized as: Ȧквариум, Åквариγм or Ȧквариγм, etc.) is a Russian rock group, formed in Leningrad, Russia in 1972 by Борис Гребенщиков (Boris Grebenshchikov), then a student of Applied Mathematics at Leningrad State University, and Анатолий Гуницкий (Anatoly "George" Gunitsky), a playwright and absurdist poet. In the 1970s and early 1980's, rock and roll was banned in the Soviet Union (exception was given only to a few government-approved artists)