Short answers, pulled from the story.
Viktor Tsoi was born on the 21st of June 1962, at a maternity hospital on Kuznetsovskaya Street in Leningrad. He was the only child of a Russian schoolteacher mother and a Soviet Korean engineer father whose parents had been exiled to Kazakhstan under Stalin's 1937 deportation of Koreans.
Viktor Tsoi died on the 15th of August 1990, on the Sloka-Talsi highway in Latvia, near Tukums and Engure. At 12:28 p.m., his Moskvitch-2141 crossed into oncoming traffic at a speed of at least 100 km/h and collided with an Ikarus 250 bus. Investigators concluded he had fallen asleep at the wheel, likely from fatigue.
Viktor Tsoi co-founded Kino, which became one of the most popular rock bands in Soviet history. Their sixth album, Gruppa krovi, released in 1987, triggered a phenomenon called "Kinomania" and established Tsoi as a hero of Soviet youth.
Viktor Tsoi starred as the protagonist Moro in The Needle (Igla), a 1988 Kazakh new wave art film directed by Rashid Nugmanov. The film was officially released in the Soviet Union in February 1989, and Tsoi was nominated for an award for his performance.
The Tsoi Wall is a tribute wall located on a bylane off the famous Arbat Street in Moscow, where fans have gathered to remember Viktor Tsoi since his death in 1990. Other Tsoi Walls exist in Minsk, Belarus, and in parts of Kazakhstan.
Viktor Tsoi was of Koryo-saram descent, meaning ethnic Korean heritage within the former Soviet Union. His father's family belonged to the Wonju Choe clan, with roots tracing to Kimchaek in present-day North Korea, where his great-grandfather Choi Yong-nam was born in 1893. His paternal grandparents were exiled to Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan, under Stalin's 1937 deportation order.