Effective period / Period of releases: 1984 - 1985

Members: Nick Robinson, Paul Widger, Steven Wright (3), Stuart Kirk-Spriggs, Nick Blackburn, Trevor Dooley, Russell Davies (3), Carl O'Connor, Tony Russian

Line-up on self-titled cassette release, recorded at Input studios, Oct 24 1981
Russ Russian - guitar, vocals
Nick Blackburn - keyboards
Stuart Kirk-Spriggs - bass
Dave Mayall - slides
Steve Nall - films
Roland Boss - drums, percussion

Line-up on the TMBR album (released on First Floor Records 1983)
Russ Russian - guitar, vocals
Nick Blackburn - keyboards
Stuart Kirk-Spriggs - bass
Trevor Dooley - saxophone, guitar

Other members of They Must Be Russians have included:
Nigel Manning (saxophone), Nick Robinson (guitar), Paul Widger (guitar), Hayden Boyes-Weston (drums), Martin Lacey (guitar), Tony Vella (guitar, stylophone), Chris Whitehead (keyboards), Carl O'Connor (bass, bagpipes)

On May 10, 2017, the eponymous tape They Must Be Russians - They Must Be Russians (digitized from Martin Lilleker's collection of band demos) was re-released on Bandcamp with permission of the artists.