Nautilus Pompilius is a Russian rock band founded in 1982 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ) by Vyacheslav Butusov (Dmitry Umetsky).

They were active from 1982 to 1997, a period in which they released ten studio albums and four live albums. The band was one of the pioneers of Soviet post-punk and new wave , emblematic of "Ural rock" and associated with Perestroika , making it one of the most influential bands in the history of Russian rock. After the dissolution of the group, Vyacheslav...