The band was formed in August 1989, when around a guitarist, a violinist, a saxophonist spontaneously gathered about 150 people. The boys were just playing music, and suddenly, after the ending of one of songs, they heard applause behind themselves. Touched, the players realized that there is a need tocome together in a band. In the same year, they started to rehearse, wrote first songs and, a few months later, were invited to tour across Yakutia. To its 17th anniversary, the band gave a big concert with the orchestra at the Palace of the Republic, which recording was released on the DVD "17 Live" in 2006. A feature of the band is that music is written by not one but all members. The band has been very often toured abroad: with performances, musicians attended the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Germany, Canada, Russia, the US, the UK, South Korea, South Africa, and more regions. On August 3, 2019, the band celebrated the 30th anniversary with a major concert with the orchestra at Lenin Square in Brest.
Name
Band members chose the name "Spasenie" – indicating that they see music as salvation – while on a train to Yakutia in the early 1990s.
The language question
For the first 15 years of its existence, the band sang exclusively in Russian, but with the release of the albumCrossing the Jordan, the English language became heard much more frequently in its songs. Vocalist Igor Mukha answered Volha Samusik from Muzykalnaya Gazeta on the language question this way, "We live in Brest. This is actually the border. Its peculiar feature is the mixture of languages. There are a lot of words from Ukrainian, Polish... There was never neither the clean Belarusian nor the Russian language. Therefore, we sang not in the native but in the Russian language. Although I recognize the indisputable melodicism of Belarusian, English is also very musically flexible. If we compare it with Russian, then to sing in the last one is harder because of all these combinations of letters "br," “str," etc. So it was not difficult to switch for us."
2006 – Alpha-radio Awards "Золотое ухо". 2009 – nomination in the contest "Just Pain Folks Music Awards" for the song "... а Солнце за кормой". 2009 – nomination in the category "For Contribution to the Development of Music" at the Annual Gospel Music Association Awards. 2010 – the Radio Brest festival "Знай Наших - 3": Best Band, Best Frontman. 2019 – diploma of the Brest City Council of Deputies.
;Former members and tour musicians Tatiana Shelpuk, Vadim Semenuk, Vitaly Kalezhinsky, Yezhy Khaichuk, Alex Manetskiy, Dave Geer, Leonid Borisevich, Vasily Mashliakevich, Stanislav Yanchin, Dmitriy Branavitsckiy, Andrey Kleshchov, Danny Platt, Brian Montrey, etc.
