Nazareth, the veterans of British hard rock, will be enjoying a comeback -- of a kind -- when they perform in St Petersburg on March 3.
Back in the 1970s, the band was in the top ten of every self-respecting Soviet rock fan.
And, unlike compatriots Slade, who played the city in January, the Nazareth line-up has remained more or less intact over the last 25 years.
The band's frontmen and songwriters, including lead vocalist Dan McCafferty, are still going strong and are planning to spend three months in the studio after their Russian tour to record a new album.
Their most recent offering, "Move Me," was released back in 1994.
Nazareth's Russian tour will feature nine shows in seven cities, starting in Murmansk and finising in President Boris Yeltsin's birthplace Yekaterinburg.
Critics have always dismissed Nazareth as a second-rate rock band but their no-frills, heads-down guitar wizardry guaranteed their success as a dynamic live act.
Their fans include Axl Rose, who paid tribute to the group by singing "Hair of the Dog" on the Guns'n'Roses covers album "The Spaghetti Incident?" in 1993.
Throughout their long career, Nazareth has earned a reputation as one of the hardest touring bands in rock music.
Nazareth toured Russia twice in the early 1990s.