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Moon Records Ukraine

Ukrainian record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2491800 ↗
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Moon Records Ukraine is a Ukrainian record label formed in 1997 and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label specializes in producing the music of Ukrainian and Russian musical artists and is currently the largest music publisher in Ukraine.

Catalogue

The distributor directory of the company has more than five thousand albums. It includes albums and discographies of such performers as: Skryabin, REAL1ST, Dan Balan, Timur Rodriguez, Seryoga, The VYO, AQUA VITA, Arsen Mirzoyan, Tonya Matvienko, Hot Chocolate (in cooperation with Dmytro Klimashenko) based on the producer's DK & MOON production center) Natalia Valevskaya, Green Grey, Stoned Jesus, SINOPTIK, LATEXFAUNA, Lumiere, PATSYKI Z FRANEKA, Numer 482, TARABAROVA, Ivan Dorn, Dasha Suvorova, daKooka, Cape Cod, Pianoboy, Vivienne Mort, O.Torvald, Robots Do not Cry, Kishe, Dmytro Kolyadenko, Serhiy Kuzin, Sonya Sotnik, TIK, Dilya, Victor Pavlik, Olya Polyakova, Maria Burmaka, Anastasia Prikhodko, Vitaly Kozlovsky, Lavka, Go_A, and others.

History

Moon Records was founded by Andrei Pasichnyk in 1997. In its early years, Moon Records specialized in the production of alternative and non-format music, including a wide variety of styles, from gangsta rap to heavy metal.

Since mid-2002, Moon Records has acquired the status of the official representative in Ukraine of the Mystery of Sound music company. The company's partners include Gala Records, the Mystery of Sound, Universal Music, UNION (concern), CD Land, Monolith, Quad Disk, Irond Records, 100PRO and other companies.

Moon Records has open offices in Germany and Russia. The company also has a division in the Czech Republic, the company MOON VINYL.

The label is one of the largest and oldest in Ukraine.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Moon Records Ukraine” as ukrainian record label. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. The account is most persuasive where Moon, Records and Ukraine can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2491800. VIAF identifies the subject as 133832188. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2002.

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