Background
He was born into the family of a doctor. Naumov grew up listening to the records of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and at age 8 decided to become a rock guitarist.
He was born into the family of a doctor. Naumov grew up listening to the records of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and at age 8 decided to become a rock guitarist.
Novosibirsk State Medical Academy.
In 1970 he with his family moved to Novosibirsk. In January 1983 Naumov formed a band named Prokhodnoy Dvor, the line-up of which also included Vladimir Zotov (drums) and Oleg Kurokhtin (guitars). Soon, after a bootleg released by the band became popular in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) forced Naumov to leave Novosibirsk Medical University for "promulgation of decadent western values," and he sought safety first in Leningrad and later in Moscow.
In 1990 Naumov moved to New York, United States.
Naumov plays a unique 9-string guitar custom-built for him by famous violin maker Sergei Nozdrin in the 1980s. Naumov usually once or twice a year tours in Russia.
In 1978, while playing in a school-band, he met the future members of Kalinov Most, one of Russia"s most influential indie-rock bands, also one of the creators of what is called Russian blues.