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  • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dmitriyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Дми́триев; born in Leningrad on 19 January 1935), PAU, is a Russian conductor of orchestral and choral music and opera. He has been director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Karel Autonomous Republic, and Principal Conductor of the Maly Academic Opera House in Leningrad. Since 1977 he has been Chief Conductor and Artistic director of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia. He has toured many countries ...
  • Георгий Петрович Дмитриев (29 октября 1942, Краснодар, РСФСР, СССР — 15 июля 2016, Москва, Российская Федерация) — советский и российский композитор, лауреат международных композиторских конкурсов в Будапеште (1988) и Тренто (1991), Золотой пушкинской медали (2000), Премии правительства Москвы (2001).Заслуженный деятель искусств России (2003).
  • Пётр Георгиевич Дмитриев (род. 1974) — российский пианист, музыкальный деятель. Заслуженный артист России (2006).
  • Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobronravov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Добронравов; born 22 November 1928 in Leningrad) is a Soviet/Russian poet and lyricist. He collaborates with his wife Aleksandra Pakhmutova.
  • Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (Russian: Вячесла́в Григо́рьевич Добры́нин, born Antonov/Анто́нов on January 25, 1946, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as Doctor Shlyager. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.' Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He never bore his father's surname of Petrosian – his father left the family before he was born and he used his mother's surname Antonov througho...
  • Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский, May 5, 1915 – September 10, 1994) was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.
  •      Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo in Lombardy. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first fifty years of the Nineteenth Century. Although Donizetti did not come from a musical background, at an early age he was taken under the wing of composer Simon Mayr who had enrolled him by means of a full scholarship in a school which he had set ...
  • Серге́й Леони́дович Доре́нский (род. 3 декабря 1931, Москва) — советский и российский пианист, музыкальный педагог. Народный артист РСФСР (1988). Профессор Московской государственной консерватории имени П. И. Чайковского. В 1940—1950 годах обучался в Центральной музыкальной школе у Г. Р. Гинзбурга, в 1955 году с отличием окончил его же класс в Московской государственной консерватории имени П. И. Чайковского, в 1957 году ...
  • Dos Mukasan (Kazakh: Досмұқасан, Dosmūqasan) is a Kazakh rock and pop music group, which was formed in Pavlodar Region in 1967 as VIA. The first lineup was formed in 1967 by four students of the Almaty Polytechnic Institute, Dosym Suleyev, Murat Kusainov, Kamit Sanbayev, and Alexander Litvinov. They first performed in Bayanaul on 1 September 1967. The name of the band was the abbreviation of their names. The band initially positioned as performers of Kazakh folk music and were criticiz...
  • Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (Russian: Исаак Осипович Дунаевский; also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov. He is considered one of the greatest Soviet composers of all time. Many of his songs are very well known and held in high regard in Russia an...
  • Дурсенева Александра Леонидовна. Оперная певица (Меццо-сопрано). Заслуженная артистка России (2005). Родилась в Харькове в артистической семье. Окончила Харьковский государственный педагогический институт и вокальное отделение Харьковского института искусств (класс Т. Веске). С 1991 г. по 1994-й была солисткой Харьковского государственного академического театра оперы и балета имени Н. В.Лысенко, где исполняла ведущий репертуар. В 1994 году была принята в оперную труппу Большого теат...
  • Yevgény Aleksándrovich Yevtushénko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films.
  • Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (/jəˈseɪnɪn/; sometimes spelled as Esenin; Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин, IPA: [sʲɪrˈgʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn]; 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.
  • Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Жване́цкий; March 6, 1934 – November 6, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist and performer of Jewish origin, best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.  Zhvanetsky was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. His monologues and sketches were performed by Arkady Raikin, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko. He joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1978 and wr...
  • Сергей Сергеевич Жилин (23 октября 1966 года, Москва, РСФСР, СССР) — российский пианист, дирижёр, бэнд-лидер, аранжировщик, композитор и педагог. Народный артист Российской Федерации (2019), артист Москонцерта. Руководитель музыкальных коллективов, объединённых общим названием «Фонограф»: «Фонограф-Джаз-Трио», «Фонограф-Джаз-Квартет», «Фонограф-Джаз-Квинтет», «Фонограф-Джаз-Секстет», «Фонограф-Дикси-Бэнд», «Фонограф-Джаз-Бэнд», «Фонограф-Биг-Бэнд», «Фонограф-Симфо-Джаз».
  • André Jolivet (pronounced [ɑ̃.dʁe ʒo.li.vɛ], 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influences, particularly on instruments used in ancient times. He composed in a wide variety of forms for many different types of ensembles.
  • Mikhail Nikolayevich Zhukov (Жуков, Михаил Николаевич) (1901–1960) was a Russian conductor and composer. Zhukov graduated 1918 from the National Choral Academy in Moscow. In 1919-22 he was first concert master, then 1922-32 conductor at the Stanislavsky Opera Studio. From 1932-35 conductor at the Leningrad opera) and then again 1935-38 conductor at the Stanislavsky Opera Studio, and having obtained a diploma in the first all-Soviet conductor's competition in Moscow in 1938, 1939-41 chi...
  • Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin (Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Журби́н; born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 7 August 1945) is a Russian composer.
  • Algis Marcelovich Žiūraitis (Algis Žiūraitis, 27 July 1928, Raseiniai, Lithuania - 25 October 1998, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Lithuanian conductor. He was a conductor of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre (since 1960). He is the RSFSR People's Artist (1976), the USSR State Prize winner (for the ballet "Angara" directed by Yuri Grigorovich, 1977).
  • Родился в 1962 году в Москве. Окончил Московскую государственную консерваторию имени П. И. Чайковского (1986) и ассистентуру-стажировку (1988) по классу профессора Наталии Шаховской.  Лауреат Всесоюзного конкурса музыкантов исполнителей (Кишинев 1985), VIII Международного конкурса камерной музыки в Трапани (Италия), лауреат VI премии IX международного конкурса им. П. И. Чайковского в Москве (1990). С 1991 по 2000 год Александр Загоринский был первым концертмейстером группы...
  • Vsevolod Petrovych Zaderatsky (Всеволод Петрович Задерацький) (Rivne 21 December 1891 – Lviv, 1 February 1953) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer, pianist and teacher at Lviv Conservatory who was blacklisted for most of his life.
  • Yakov Izrailevich Zak (Ukrainian: Яків Ізраїлович Зак), (Russian: Яков Израилевич Зак), Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1913 – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet pianist and teacher of Jewish extraction. Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow, graduating in 1935. Having made his debut in 1935, he rose to promin...
  • Kurt Sanderling, CBE (19 September 1912 – 18 September 2011) was a German conductor. Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Orzysz, Poland), to Jewish parents. His early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he served as repetiteur (rehearsal director) for Wilhelm Furtwängler and Erich Kleiber, was cut short when the Nazi regime removed him from his post because he was Jewish. He then left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Rad...
  • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Заце́пин; born 10 March 1926 in Novosibirsk, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to many popular movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. In 1982 Zatsepin went to live in France and returned four years later to the Soviet Union; since then he has continued to (using his own words) "work in Moscow, rest in Paris".
  • Zemlyane (Russian: Земляне, lit. 'Earthlings') is a Soviet and later Russian rock band, formed in Leningrad in 1978. Most of their lyrics deal with risk, courage, and masculinity. In 2009, Zemlyane's 1980s hit "Trava u doma" (Russian: «Трава у дома», lit. 'Тhe grass at home') became the first official anthem of the Russian space program.
  • Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: Зодиа́к, Latvian: Zodiaks) was a space disco music band that existed in the 1980s in Latvia, then a part of Soviet Union. The band was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and has been credited by critics as the Soviet answer to the French band Space who were popular at the time. Official website: http://www.zodiacmusic.lv/ Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/zodiac.latvia/
  • Iveria (Georgian: ივერია) was a Georgian music ensemble founded in 1968 that gained popularity in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The group's art director was Alexander Basilaia. The group sang both Georgian folk and contemporary songs, wrote and performed Argo and Jays Wedding musicals, and released 6 vinyl albums on Melodiya label.
  • Александр Львович Иохелес (27 февраля [11 марта] 1912, Москва — 19 июня 1978, там же) — советский пианист и музыкальный педагог. Брат архитектора Евгения Иохелеса.
  • Alla Yakovlevna Ioshpe (Yoshpe) (Russian: А́лла Я́ковлевна Ио́шпе (Йо́шпе); 13 June 1937 – 30 January 2021) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, and a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002).
  •      Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian: Ավետիք Իսահակյան; October 30, 1875 – October 17, 1957) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer and public activist.
  • Liana Isakadze (Georgian: ლიანა ისაკაძე, Russian: Лиана Александровна Исакадзе, German: Liana Isakadse) (born August 2, 1946) is a Georgian violinist.
  •      Born Oct. 8, 1928, in Se-bezh, present-day Pskov Oblast. Soviet Russian mezzo-soprano. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Isakova was a partisan during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45. She later was a student in F. S. Petrova’s class at the Moscow Conservatory. Upon graduation in 1958, she was accepted into the company of the K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater. Her voice is rich and has a deep timbre. It is particularly beautiful in the lower contralto re...
  • Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.
  • This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Oleg Kagan" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Oleg Kagan (right) meeting Mrs. Aino Sibelius at Ainola, Finland, 1965, on the 100th birthday of Jean Sibelius. Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan (Russian: Оле́г Моисе́евич Кага́н; 22 Novem...
  • Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev (Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев; 15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian composer and conductor. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
  • Камышев Анатолий Иванович (1952-) Лауреат Всесоюзного конкурса (Минск,1979,2 премия), в 1971 окончил музыкальное училище им. Ипполитова-Иванова (класс Г.Гусева), в 1976 - Московскую консерваторию (класс В.Петрова), в 1975 солист Московского симфонического оркестра, в 1976-1981- симфонического оркестра ВР и ЦТ, с 1981 – симфонического оркестра Министерства культуры СССР, преподаватель музыкально-педагогического института им. Ипполитова-Иванова
  • Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Карамзин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kərɐmˈzʲin]; 12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1766 – 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1826) was a Russian writer, poet, historian and critic. He is best remembered for his History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.
  • Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov (Russian: Николáй Николáeвич Карéтников; June 28, 1930 in Moscow – October 9, 1994 in Moscow) was a Russian composer of the so-called Underground – alternative or nonconformist group in Soviet music.
  • Vakhtang Kikabidze (Georgian: ვახტანგ კიკაბიძე; 19 July 1938 – 15 January 2023), also known as Buba (Georgian: ბუბა) was a Soviet and Georgian singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who served in the Parliament of Georgia from 2020 until his death.
  • Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (Russian: Евге́ний И́горевич Ки́син, romanized: Evgénij Ígorevič Kísin; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian classical pianist. He has been a British citizen since 2002 and an Israeli citizen since 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Lisz...
  • Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko (also spelled Dmitrij Kitajenko) (born 18 August 1940) is a Soviet and Russian conductor. People's Artist of the USSR (1984). He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union and studied at the Glinka Conservatory and those of Leningrad and Moscow. He was a prizewinner in the first Herbert von Karajan competition in 1969.  Kitayenko was music director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years. He has also held principal conductorships with the Bergen Phi...
  • Алекса́ндр Леони́дович Клеви́цкий (род. 1954) — российский композитор и дирижёр, продюсер. Заслуженный деятель искусств Российской Федерации (2004), художественный руководитель и главный дирижёр Академического Большого концертного оркестра им. Ю.В. Силантьева. Генеральный директор Российского музыкального союза, первый заместитель председателя Совета Союза композиторов России, председатель коллегии Союза московских композиторов. Председатель подкомитета по предпринимательству в с...
  • Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ˈklaɪbɜːrn/; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War). Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone...
  • Alexandre Alexandrovitch Kniazev (Russian: Александр Александрович Князев) (born 26 April 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian cellist and organist. He was named best musician of the year in Russia in 1999. Kniazev studied music at Moscow Conservatory. He entered the cello class of Alexander Fedorchenko and in the organ class of G. Kozlova. After a solid musical formation, he won first prizes in cello at the Vilnius competition, at that of G. Cassado, the International Chamber Music C...
  • Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (Russian: Ио́сиф Давы́дович Кобзо́н; 11 September 1937 – 30 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.
  • Leonid Borisovich Kogan (Russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Ко́ган; Ukrainian: Леонід Борисович Коган; 14 November 1924 – 17 December 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing.
  • Eduard Kolmanovsky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Саве́льевич Колмано́вский; 9 January 1923 – 27 July 1994) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was awarded a USSR State Prize in 1984 and named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. A large part of his songs are dedicated to the themes of patriotic consciousness and civic awareness. Among them are: "I Love You, Life" (1958), "Do the Russians Want War?" (1961), "Alyosha" (1966).
  • Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Кольцо́в) (October 15, 1809 – October 29, 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. Koltsov earnestly collected Russian folklore which strongly influenced his poetry. He celebrated simple peasants, their work and their lives. Many of his poems were put to music by such composers as Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgs...
  • Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, (Russian: Кири́лл Петро́вич Кондра́шин, Kirill Petrovič Kondrašin; 6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1914 – 7 March 1981) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.
  • Vladimir Krainev (Russian: Влади́мир Все́володович Кра́йнев; 1 April 1944 – 29 April 2011) was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Дании́л Бори́сович Кра́мер (англ. Daniel Kramer; род. 21 марта 1960, Харьков) — советский и российский джазовый пианист, педагог, композитор и продюсер, известный как своими регулярными и массовыми выступлениями, так и самостоятельно разработанной схемой гастрольных абонементов джазовой музыки в филармонических залах России. Народный артист России (2012). Действительный член Российской Академии Искусств (2014). Член общественного совета Российского еврейского конгресса.
  • Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless...
  • Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Влади́мировна Кристали́нская; 24 February 1932, Moscow – 19 June 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian singer.  In 1957 she performed at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow with an amateur ensemble under the direction of Yury Saulsky and was awarded a Laureate prize. Later she started performing independently. Wide popularity came to her starting in the early 1960s when she recorded the song "Dva Berega" ("We are Two Ban...
  • Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov (Russian: Евге́ний Па́влович Крыла́тов; 23 February 1934 – 8 May 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films.
  • Michael Kugel (Ukrainian: Михайло Бенедиктович Кугель; born December 5, 1946) is a Ukrainian viola player and composer.
  • Серге́й Васи́льевич Ку́прик (род. 7 ноября 1973, Москва) — российский и украинский певец, музыкант. Заслуженный артист Украины (2004), Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации (2018). Солист группы «Лесоповал» (1994—2008). Сольный исполнитель (2009 — настоящее время)
  • Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Курёхин, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed "The Captain"; 16 June 1954 – 9 July 1996) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Alexander Nikolayevich Lazarev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ла́зарев; born 5 July 1945, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsbourg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR. In 1972, he won a first prize and gold medal in the Karajan conducting competition in Berlin. From 1987-1995, Lazarev was both chief conductor and artistic ...
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