Александр Градский has been played on NTS in shows including Lucifer Over LA, featured first on 8 August 2018. Songs played include The Search, Солдатская = Soldiers Song and Таня Белая (Хоровод-Танок) = Tanya, Tanyusha (A Round Dance).

Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (Russian: Александр Борисович Градский; 1949, Kopeysk - 2021, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian Pop/Rock singer, bard and composer, and has sometimes been called the Soviet Union's most popular recording artist. He was known to have a three-and-a-half octave range voice, and has performed with John Denver on the song "Let Us Begin…"