Sergei Timofeyevich Grebennikov (14 August 1920, CEL, Shahe, Hebei Province, Republic of China - 29 September 1988, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet songwriter, film and theatre actor. He graduated from the Moscow City Theatre School.
Sergey Timofeyevich Grebennikov was born on 14 August 1920 in the family of a railway worker. At the age of 10 he lost his parents; he was brought up by his elder brother Vladimir Timofeevich Grebennikov (1911-1942), who lived in the city of Sochi. In 1936, after completing the 9th grade of secondary school, Sergei Grebennikov entered the vocal and drama department of the Moscow Glazunov Music College. In 1937 he transferred to the Moscow City Theatre School (then attached to the Chamber Theatre), and after graduating from it he entered the Music School at the Moscow Conservatory.
In 1941 Sergey Grebennikov was enrolled in the chorus of the ensemble of the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen under the direction of I.O. Dunayevsky. With this group from 1941 to 1943 the artist performed concerts in the Far Eastern Army and Navy units. Since 1944 he worked in the Moscow Theatre of Miniatures, after its disbanding - in the Operetta Theatre of the Moscow region, then in the Gypsy theatre "Romain" and, finally, in the Moscow Theatre of Young Spectators. Since 1961 Grebennikov switched to literary work.
Sergei died in Moscow on 29 September 1988. He is buried in the 43rd plot of the Vagankovsky cemetery.
