1990 — Igor Pops Show

DJ Fonar: At that time two Moscow disc jockeys became big stars — Sergei Minaev and Igor Siliverstov. They too used a kind of know-how — the Western "forty-fives" that had appeared by then, with hits on them, one side of which had the original track, and the other a "backing track" without vocals. Minaev would compose a Russian version of popular hits, lay his own vocals over the "backing track" and put it out to the public. Siliverstov did the same thing. Only Minaev wrote for himself, whereas Igor worked together with Velichkovsky ("Tekhnologiya", "Biokonstruktor").
At the time the most popular programme on TV was the show "Melodies and Rhythms of Foreign Pop", which almost entirely rebroadcast the German "Peter's Pop Show". Who didn't they play there — Desires, Depeche Mode. Naturally, those songs then went on to become big hits at the discos too.
Siliverstov realized that you could make an equivalent of that show with Russian performers. A multitude of pop stars had emerged by then — "Mirazh" and the rest. These were well-promoted names, with airtime on radio and TV. The first, trial show took place at "Druzhba" and was a resounding success. After that Igor decided to do the same thing on a regular basis, turning "Druzhba" into a permanently functioning club. That's how the Jump disco was born.