|
Tenderness (Soviet Song)
"Tenderness" () is a Soviet Union, Soviet Russian language, Russian song, composed in 1965. The music was written by Alexandra Pakhmutova, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, with lyrics by Nikolai Dobronravov and :ru:Сергей Тимофеевич Гребенников, Sergey Grebennikov.Alexandra Pakhmutova's official site (in Russian) "Tenderness" was one of the most beloved songs from cosmonaut of the USSR, and the most beloved — the first cosmonaut of the planet Earth — Yuri Gagarin. Yevgeny Dolmatovsky recalled in the book "Stories about your songs" (1973): ''Nezhnost was performed in 1967 by Tatiana Doronina (as Nyura) in Tatiana Lioznova's film '':ru:Три тополя на Плющихе, Tri topolya na Plyushchikhe'' (Three Poplars at :ru:Улица Плющиха, Plyuschikha Street). Origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Kristalinskaya
Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (; 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 Banks of the Same River") from the 1959 movie ''Thirst (1959 film), Thirst''. The vinyl recording of the song sold 7 million copies. Maya Kristalinskaya toured the country a lot, worked with the jazz orchestras of Eddie Rosner and Oleg Lundstrom, with the ensemble of Evgeny Rokhlin. In 1963, she performed "" on popular show "Little Blue Light". Kristalinskaya was the original performer of the song "Nezhnost'" (1966) which is considered the epitome of her singing talent. In 1966, Maya Kristalinskaya was recognized as the best pop singer of the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 (, ) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human spaceflight, human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet astronaut, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital speed, orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit around the Earth. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at at its lowest point. The flight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at altitude. Background The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States, the two Cold War superpowers, began just before the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. Both countries wanted to develop spaceflight technology quickly, particularly by launching the first successf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Zykina
Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina (; 10 June 1929 – 1 July 2009) was a national folk singer of Russia. She was born in Moscow and joined the Pyatnitsky Choir in 1947. Her surname is derived from the Russian word for "loud" ("зычный"). Beginning in 1960 she performed solo. She befriended Ekaterina Furtseva, the powerful Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union, and was reputed to be a favourite singer of Leonid Brezhnev. It is known she was a particular favourite of both Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il, performing in Pyongyang six times at the invitation of the Kims. It was also reported that Kim Jong-il was so fond of Zykina that he invited her to Pyongyang in 2008 in hopes that her performance would help him recover from illness. Olga Voronets was considered Zykina's main rival. Among Zykina's many honors were the Lenin Prize (1970) and Order of Lenin (1979) as well as the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1973) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Sinyavskaya
Tamara Ilyinichna Sinyavskaya (; born 6 July 1943) is a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano from the Bolshoi Theatre. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. In 1997, planet 4981 Sinyavskaya was named in her honor. She was married to Soviet Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev. Awards and honors * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971) * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (24 July 1973) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (25 May 1976) * Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980) * Order of the Badge of Honour (14 November 1980) * People's Artist of the USSR (30 April 1982) * Order of Honour (22 March 2001) * People's Artiste of Azerbaijan (10 September 2002) * Shohrat Order (5 July 2003) * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kobzon
Joseph Davydovich Kobzon (11 September 1937 – 30 August 2018) was a Soviet-born Russian singer, known for his crooner style. Early life Kobzon was born to History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, Jewish Ukrainians, Ukrainian parents in the mining town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donbas region of Ukraine.Red Stars:Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955–1991 by David MacFadyen, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, As a boy he demonstrated a talent for singing, winning numerous regional singing contests. He reached the national finals on two separate occasions, appearing in concerts dedicated to Joseph Stalin – a significant honour at the time. Despite his talent for singing, Kobzon went on to Dnipro Polytechnic, technical school to study geology and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Aleksandrovich Gulyayev
Yuri Aleksandrovich Gulyayev (9 September 193023 April 1986) was a Soviet opera singer from Tyumen, Ural Oblast, RSFSR. The singer's voice was a lyric baritone.. In Russian Career He studied at the Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk. After graduating from the Conservatory, he sang at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1955, he became a soloist of the State Russian Opera and Ballet Theater in Stalino. Amongst his most notable performances were those at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The most successful roles are Germont (" La traviata" by G. Verdi), Onegin ("Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky), Valentin ("Faust" by C. Gounod), Count Di Luna (" Il trovatore" by G. Verdi), Figaro ("The Barber of Seville" by G. Rossini). However, the most popular were the singer's performances on the stage (over 200 works). In the late 1960s, the heroic and romantic theme of space exploration was developed in Soviet poetry and music. In 1968, the musical and vocal song cycle "Gagar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Central Television
The Central Television of the USSR (; abbreviated CT USSR, SCTV ">/nowiki>/nowiki>) was the state television broadcaster of the Soviet Union. Like much of the Soviet media, CT USSR regularly promoted the agendas of the Communist Party. Initially, the service was operated, together with the national radio service, by the Ministry of Culture. Later it was operated by the Gosteleradio committee, under the Communications Ministry and the Information and Press Ministry, and later a Council of Ministers-controlled network of television and radio broadcasting. First decades Radio was the dominant medium in the former Soviet Union, however, in the 1930s preparations for television were in full swing. On 1 October 1934, the first television sets were made available to the public. The next year, the first television broadcasts began. The Soviet Union television service began full-time experimental test broadcasts on 1 March 1938. Regular public programming began on 9 March 1938 – w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio In The Soviet Union
All-Union Radio () was the radio broadcasting organisation for the USSR under Gosteleradio, operated from 1924 until the dissolution of the USSR. The organization was based in Moscow. History Beginning Following the October Revolution control over radio resources was given to the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs. Then, in 1924 it was transferred to a joint-stock company whose members were the Russian Telegraph Agency, a major electric factory, and the PCPT,10 but in 1928 was returned to the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs. The first All-Union Radio station, was opened upon Lenin's initiative (for a "paperless newspaper" as the best means of public information) in November 1924. On November 23, 1924 the first regular broadcast was produced in Moscow on the Comintern radio station, using the Shukhov radio tower. In 1925, the Radio Commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) was organized for overall supervision of radio broadcasting. On 30 Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Lioznova
Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova (; 20 July 192429 September 2011) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known for her TV series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (1973). Personal life Tatyana Lioznova was born in Moscow to parents Moses Alexandrovich (Russian: Моисей Александрович) and Ida Israilevna (Russian: Ида Израилевна). Her father worked as an economic engineer, but died in the early years of WWII, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. She was raised by her mother, who had a limited education, but worked hard to provide for her daughter. Lioznova never had children of her own, but had an adopted daughter, Lyudmila Lisina. In 2011, Lioznova died in Moscow, and is buried next to her mother in Moscow's Donskoye Cemetery. Education and early work Lioznova spent one semester at the Moscow Aviation Institute during the war, but ultimately decided on a different career path, and in 1943 began attending the Russian State Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
