Fedor Yurievich Lavrov, born August 18, 1965, in Leningrad, USSR is a Russian musician, composer, sound producer, arranger, artist, and designer. He is known for his work in several groups he helped found, including Rezinovyi Rikoshet, Otdel Samoiskoreneniia (presumably the very first Soviet Anarcho-Punk band), Narodnoe opolchenia, Brigadnyi podriiad, and several others. In addition to his songwriting, he sings and plays the guitar, keyboard, and drums. As a sound producer, he began recording music in 1980. From the very beginning of his career, he has been working at his own studio, which since the days of the punk underground has been called "Begemotion Records".

Lavrov studied percussion in school (1981-1982), during which time he also played drums in the group Rezinovyi Rikoshet, with whom he made his first recordings. In 1982, Lavrov went to work at the Youth Theater in what was then Leningrad. He founded his first original group Otdel Samoiskoreneniia and joined Narodnoe Opolchenie. He composed and recorded for both groups, releasing self-designed magnetic albums on 6 mm films (magnitizdat), which he distributed for free through the underground punk studio Begemotion Records, located in his apartment. Throughout the early 1980s, his recordings featured musicians such as Andrey "Svin'ia" [Pig] Panov, Alex "Ogoltelyi" [Frantic] Strogachov, Alexander "Rikochet" [Ricochet] Aksenov, Dmitry "Oslik" [Donkey] Pshishlyak-Parfenov, Georgy "Gustav" Guryanov, Yulia "Aktivnaia" [Active] Zaretskaya, Evgeny "Titya " Titov, Mikhail Dubov, Dmitry "Volosatyi" [Hairy] Buchin, the group Brigadnyi Podriiad, and guitarist Andrei Otriaskin.

In 1984, Lavrov was drafted into the Soviet Army and sent to the Southern Military District with the prospect of serving in Afghanistan. Lavrov refused to serve due to personal political beliefs, but his refusal was overruled under USSR article #4. In the summer of 1984, upon returning from the army, Lavrov was summoned by the KGB for interrogations about the provocative and anti-Soviet activities of Begemotion Records and his group Otdel Samoiskoreneniia. Lavrov was required to surrender his recordings, photographs, and lyrics to the KGB archive. He was also required to sign a document vowing to stop his subversive activities and discontinue any further efforts to compose and record works that discredit the image of the USSR and its leaders. Begemotion Records continued to exist until 1986, recording with groups Narodnoe Opolchenie and Brigadnyi Podriiad. The group Otdel Samoiskoreneniia ceased to exist after 1986.