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  • Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (Russian: И́горь Дави́дович О́йстрах; Ukrainian: Ігор Давидович Ойстрах April 27, 1931 – August 14, 2021) was a Russian violinist.
  • Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong tr...
  • Naum Mironovich Olev (real name Rosenfeld; 22 February 1939, Moscow - 9 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian songwriter, journalist, translator and film actor. From 1988 he was a prominent gallery owner in Moscow and took part in its social life.  He was born on 22 February 1939 into a Jewish family not connected with art. His mother worked as a teacher and taught the history of the USSR, his father was a car repair shop manager. He studied at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and the M...
  • OpensoundOrchestra is an orchestra specializing in the performance of contemporary music. The collective was founded in 2018 by violinist and conductor Stanislav Malyshev and cellist Olga Kalinova. The name Opensound is a metaphor for the wide variety of music the collective performs. The orchestra's repertoire includes works by Russian and foreign composers of various genres.
  • Полина Олеговна Осетинская (р. 1975) — советская и российская пианистка. Начала играть на фортепиано в пять лет, в шесть лет дала первый сольный концерт в Вильнюсской консерватории. Позже педагогами будущей пианистки стали преемницы исполнительской школы Генриха Нейгауза Марина Вениаминовна Вольф в Санкт-Петербурге и Вера Васильевна Горностаева в Москве. Полину Осетинскую можно услышать в  Карнеги-холле, венском Мюзикферайне, лондонском Барбикане, римском Театро Ардж...
  • ОСЕЙЧУ́К Александр Викторович (р. 24 октября 1949, пос. Лама Красноярского края), российский джазовый музыкант (альт-саксофон), бэндлидер. Музыкой начал заниматься с семи лет. Окончив Музыкальное училище им. Гнесиных в 1971 по классу кларнета, поступает в Государственный музыкально-педагогический институт им. Гнесиных по классу саксофона экспериментально, поскольку класс саксофона был открыт официально только в 1974. В 1...
  • Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (Russian: Лев Ива́нович Оша́нин; May 30, 1912 – December 30, 1996) was a poet, author of over 70 books of poetry, novels and poetry plays winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) and winner of the World Festival of Youth and Students.
  • Oskar Davidovich Strok (Latvian. Oskars Stroks, 6 [18] January 1893, Dinaburg, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire - 22 June 1975, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR) was a Latvian composer and pianist, nicknamed the "Riga Tango King". He studied piano at the St Petersburg Conservatoire under Nikolai Dubasov and worked as an accompanist on the stage and in the film industry. The main years of Strok's life and work were spent in Riga, where he performed regular concerts in the famous dansing cabaret r...
  • Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1823  – 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1886) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire." His dramas are among the most widely read and frequently performed stage pieces in Russia.
  • Irina Adolfovna Otieva (born November 22, 1958, Tbilisi) - Soviet and Russian jazz and pop singer of Armenian origin, Honored Artist of Russia (1997), winner of international competitions, a performer of Russian jazz, composer, songwriter. 
  • Georg Ots (21 March 1920 – 5 September 1975) was an Estonian singer and actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
  • Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (Italian: [ni(k)koˈlɔ ppaɡaˈniːni] (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.
  • Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (Russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. People's Artist of the USSR (1984). She was born on 9 November 1929 in Beketovka (now a neighbourhood in Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and began playing the piano and composing music at an early ag...
  • Mariya Leonidovna Pakhomenko (25 March 1937 - 8 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer. People's Artist of Russia (1998). Maria Pakhomenko was born on 25 March 1937 in Leningrad. There were four children in her parents' family: Ivan, Maria, Lyudmila and Galina. Her mother, Daria Mikhailovna, and father, Leonid Antonovich, were from the village of Lyutnya, Krasnopolsky district of the Belorussian SSR (now the Mogilev region of Belarus). Maria studied at an ordinary scho...
  • Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (/ˈpæstərnæk/; Russian: Борис Леонидович Пастернак, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shak...
  • Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and world-wide. 
  • Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, Belarusian: Песняры, [pʲesʲnʲaˈrɨ]) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны).
  • Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (Russian: Андре́й Па́влович Петро́в; September 2, 1930 – February 15, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet films such as Walking the Streets of Moscow, Beware of the Car, and Office Romance.
  • Олеся Петрова — российская оперная певица, меццо-сопрано, окончила Санкт-Петербургскую государственную консерваторию имени Н.А. Римского-Корсакова (класс Ирины Богачёвой). После успешного выступления на  престижном конкурсе «Певец мира» в Кардиффе в 2011 году получила приглашения Греческой национальной оперы (Афины) и Оперы Цюриха, где и дебютировала в следующем сезоне 2011–2012 в партиях Ульрики («Бал-маскарад» Верди) и Кончаковны («Князь Игорь» Бородина). С 2012-го была приглаше...
  • Наталья Петрожицкая — российская оперная певица, сопрано. Окончила Московскую государственную консерваторию имени П.И. Чайковского и там же аспирантуру. С 2002 по 2005 годы участвовала в спектаклях Оперной студии при Московской консерватории. Исполнила партии Татьяны («Евгений Онегин» П. Чайковского), Донны Эльвиры («Дон Жуан» В. Моцарта), Графини, Марцелины («Свадьба Фигаро» В. Моцарта), Гориславы («Руслан и Людмила» М. Глинки), Мими («Богема» Дж. Пуччини). С 2006 года — солистка опе...
  •      Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, ...
  • Edita Stanislavovna Piekha (born Edith-Marie Pierha (French: Édith-Marie Pierha; Polish: Edyta Maria Piecha); born 31 July 1937 in Noyal-sous-Lan, France) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. 31 July 1937, Noailles-sous-Lan, France) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). The performer's repertoire includes more than 500 songs, including those in foreign languages, including "Our Neighbour", "City of Childhood"...
  •      Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, one of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! Without fear or doubt..." became widely known as "a Russian La Marseillaise" (and was sung as such, using French melody), "Friends' calling..." and "We're brothers ...
  • Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Плетнёв, Mikha'il Vas'ilevič Plet'nëv; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian concert pianist, conductor, and composer.
  • Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Спарта́кович Пляцко́вский; 1935–1991) was a Soviet songwriter and playwright.
  • Rostislav Yaunovich Plyatt (30 November [13 December] 1908, Rostov-on-Don, Voyskoy Donskoy Oblast, Russian Empire - 30 June 1989, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) was a Soviet film and theatre actor, a master of the spoken word (elocutionist). Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), People's Artist of the USSR (1961), winner of the USSR State Prize (1982). Commander of two Orders of Lenin (1978, 1989). Rostislav Ivanovich Pliat was born on 30 November (13 December) 1908 in Rostov-on-Don. His early enth...
  • Viktoria Valentinovna Postnikova (born 12 January 1944) is a Russian pianist. Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. She entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at age six, studying with E.B. Musaelian. She graduated in 1967, having studied there and in postgraduate courses with Professor Yakov Flier. In 1965 she won a prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition. She subsequently also won prizes at the Leeds International Piano Competitio...
  • Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1...
  • Pojuschie Gitary (Russian: Поющие гитары [pɐˈjʉɕːɪɪ ɡʲɪˈtarɨ], The Singing Guitars) are among the most popular bands of Russia and the former USSR. They were the Soviet Union's first rock band to reach a phenomenal rate of success and popularity in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and in other countries. The band was founded in 1966 in Petersburg by Vladimir Vasilyev - (guitar, vocal) and Evgeny Bronevitsky (vocal, bass guitar) and other pro-western Russian musicians. Initially inspired by th...
  • Влади́мир Петро́вич Пресняко́в (род. 26 марта 1946, Ходоров, Львовская область) — российский композитор, аранжировщик, саксофонист. Заслуженный артист России (1996). Заслуженный деятель искусств России (2007). Муж солистки ВИА «Самоцветы» Елены Петровны Пресняковой, отец певца Владимира Преснякова-младшего, дед актёра и певца Никиты Преснякова.
  • Айлен Притчин родился в 1987 году в Ленинграде (Санкт-Петербург). Окончил Среднюю специальную музыкальную школу при Санкт-Петербургской консерватории (класс Елены Зайцевой) и Московскую государственную консерваторию (класс профессора Эдуарда Грача). В настоящее время – ассистент Эдуарда Грача. Победитель Международного юношеского конкурса имени П. И. Чайковского (Япония, 2004), международных конкурсов имени А. И. Ямпольского в Москве (2006), имени Панчо Владигерова в Шумене (Болгария, 200...
  •      Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr. Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev; 15/27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which "Dance of t...
  • Gennady Provatorov (Проваторов, Геннадий Пантелеймонович) (Moscow, 11 March 1929 - Minsk 4 May 2010) was a Soviet and Belarusian conductor.  Gennady Provatorov was invited to Minsk when he was nearly 60 to work at the Minsk Philharmonic and National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus. He was a Belarus State Award holder and a National Artist of RSFSR.
  • Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (UK: /pʊˈtʃiːni/ puu-CHEE-nee, US: /puːˈ-/ poo-, Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo putˈtʃiːni]; 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".  Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents...
  • Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (Russian: Алла Борисовна Пугачёва; sometimes transcribed to English as Pugachova, Russian pronunciation: [pʊɡɐˈtɕɵvə]; born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she does not give live performances anymore. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in te...
  • Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин (26 мая [6 июня] 1799, Москва — 29 января [10 февраля] 1837, Санкт-Петербург) — русский поэт, драматург и прозаик, заложивший основы русского реалистического направления, критик и теоретик литературы, историк, публицист; один из самых авторитетных литературных деятелей первой трети XIX века. Ещё при жизни Пушкина сложилась его репутация величайшего национального русского поэта. Пушкин рассматривается как основоположник современного русского литературного я...
  • The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the then Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. The quartet was one of the Soviet Union's best known in the West during the Cold War era, through recordings as well as concert performances in the United States and Europe.  The quartet had a close relationship with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who personally consulted them on ...
  •      Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́ниновъ; Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf]; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered as one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal...
  • Stahan Mamadzhanovich Rakhimov (Uzbek: Staxan Rahimov, Russian: Стаха́н Мамаджа́нович Рахи́мов; December 17, 1937 – March 12, 2021) was a Soviet Uzbek and Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia (2002).
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; 25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin.  Little is known about Rameau's early years. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Tr...
  • Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Рамм (род. 9 мая 1988, Владивосток) — российский виолончелист.
  • Vladimir Rannev (b. 1970) — is a composer and lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University. In 2003, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory where he studied with Boris Tishchenko and from the Cologne University of Music with a degree in electronic music where he studied with Hans Ulrich Humpert. Rannev is a fellow of Gartow-Stiftung (Germany, 2002) and a winner of the Salvatore Martirano Award of the University of Illinois (USA, 2009) and Gianni Bergamo Cla...
  • Даниил Максимович Ратгауз (25 января [6 февраля] 1868, Харьков — 6 июня 1937, Прага) — русский поэт, автор слов нескольких известных романсов.
  • Joseph Maurice Ravel French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded b...
  • Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik (Russian: Илья Pахмильeвич Peзник; born April 4, 1938, Leningrad) is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. People's Artist of Ukraine (2013).
  • Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер (7 (20) марта 1915, Житомир — 1 августа 1997, Москва) — советский российский пианист. Герой Социалистического Труда (1975). Народный артист СССР (1961). Лауреат Ленинской (1961), Сталинской (1950), Государственной премии РСФСР им. М. Глинки (1987) и Государственной премии Российской Федерации (1996).  Один из крупнейших пианистов XX века, чья вир...
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, IPA: [nʲɪkəˈlaj ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲimskʲɪj ˈkorsəkəf]; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along...
  •      Felice Romani (January 31, 1788 – January 28, 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.
  • Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozyenbaum) (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya (criminal song) genre. Modern singers in this genre, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky often sing Rosenbaum's songs. Graduated from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg in 1974, and worked in the medical field for four years. His musical ...
  •      Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola, and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell. A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "Th...
  • Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, romanized: Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpovʲɪtɕ]; 27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist b...
  • Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (1976), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1990).
  • Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Ро́берт Ива́нович Рожде́ственский; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and Songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.
  • Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, tr. Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 – November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He ...
  • Alexander Israilevich Rudin (born 1960) is a Russian classical cellist and conductor.
  • Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova (Russian: Кла́ра Миха́йловна Румя́нова; 8 December 1929, Leningrad – 18 September 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. She was active from 1951 to 1999.  Her childlike and endearing voice was easily recognized by generations of Soviet people from their early childhood, because she voiced numerous Russian animated films and sang countless children's songs. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union her songs have been heard even more, be...
  • Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova (sometimes spelt Lidiya or Lydia, Russian: Лидия Андреевна Русланова; 27 October 1900 in Saratov Governorate – 21 September 1973 in Moscow) was a performer of Russian folk songs.
  • Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Льво́вич Ры́бников; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock-operas) Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты, 1976) and Juno and Avos (Юнона и Авось, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 million discs with his music have been sold to 1989.
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