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Stas Namin is known as a professional musician and composer, artist and photographer, theatre director, film and event producer, businessman and cultural humanist whose remarkable career has moved from dissidence during the repressive period of the Cold War to extraordinary artistic achievement in the expressive new millennium. Unlike many of his fellow nationals, he has made the transition seamlessly, somehow melding an early military education with the subsequent formal study of foreign languages, philology and literature and a relentless tandem passion for rock music and cinematography.

A cult personality in Russia Stas Namin in 1960-70s is one of the founders of Russian rock music, in 1980-90s – a pioneer of show-business in Russia and producer of historical events. Almost forbidden by the regime in the 1970-80s, in the 1990s he was named among 50 most influential people in Russia by Moscow Magazine, and his name was included into the Russian Business Elite Encyclopedia. In 2000s Stas Namin concentrates on producing global festivals of Russian culture in the world, and, on the other hand - on personal experiments in theatre, art and symphony music.

That ancestry is hard to countenance when one takes in the casually-dressed, gray-haired, pony-tailed businessman with a penchant for electric guitars, innovative projects and ideas, theatre and cinema, photography and art, high-risk sports and exotic trips.

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