«Avtomat Proshlogo» with Russian means «Automat of the Past» — vivid description of cause-and-effect law or Karma. «Automat» resembles the virtue of the mind to automatically, mechanically react to situations in life.
Yet «Avtomat Proshlogo» with Russian means «Automatic rifle». It's like a symbolic weapon, which inadvertently shoots at present, and will continue shooting ammo of the past. «Automat of the Past» works now and will work in the future if we fail to defuse it.
The band’s name – CIOLKOWSKA – refers to the ideas of “Russian Cosmism”, a philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia in the early 20th century and was represented by Nikolai Fyodorov (1828-1903), Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964) and many other philosophers and scholars.
