Mikhail Isaievich Tanich (Tankhilevich) () (September 15, 1923 – April 17, 2008) was a popular

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n song lyrics writer, a laureate of the Interior Ministry Award (1997), a laureate of the jubilee contest ''The Song of the Year'' devoted to the 25th anniversary of that television program, a laureate of nearly all the annual festivals ''The Song of the Year'', and a laureate of the ''Ovation'' National Music Award (1997).

Biography

Mikhail Isaevich Tankhilevich was born in

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in a

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family. He graduated from the Rostov Civil Engineering College (

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). He was in the Army during

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, participated at the

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and was awarded with an

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of 3rd degree. After the end of the war, he entered the Rostov Engineering and Construction Institute, from which he did not manage to graduate. In 1947, he was arrested on the grounds of false accusations, and spent time in prison until 1953. Many years later, he confessed in a TV interview, ‘I served 6 years in one of the most horrible Stalinist camps for some nonsense, for a joke, a word.’ After his release, he lived on Sakhalin and worked as a foreman at Stroymekhmontazh. Not being rehabilitated, he could not settle in Moscow, although his cousin lived there. At the age of thirty-three, he married eighteen-year-old Lydia Kozlova. In 1956 Tanich was rehabilitated. The couple moved to Orekhovo-Zuyevo, and after a while - to Zheleznodorozhnyi. His first book of collected poems was published in 1959. He then went on to write a total of fifteen books. In the beginning of the 1960s he wrote a song ''The Textile Town'', written in collaboration with the Soviet composer

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, became a hit. It was sung by a number of popular singers including

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and

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. Together with Yury Saulsky, the poet wrote the schlager ‘Black Cat’. Tanich also called the patriotic song ‘Confession of Love’, written together with Serafim Tulikov, one of his favourite songs. He has also co-authored with many Soviet composers such as

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, Vadim Gamaliya,

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, Nikita Bogoslovsky,

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. Other composers Tanich has worked with include

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Arkady Ukupnik Arkady Semyonovich Ukupnik (; born February 18, 1953, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist RepublicVyacheslav Malezhik. In the mid-1980s Tanich began composing poems for the most popular composers of the time -

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and Raimond Pauls. In 1991, he wrote the lyrics to Alexander Malinin's song ‘New Star’. Tanich collaborated with

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, whom the poet considered ‘his singer’, as well as Larisa Dolina. He continued his long-standing collaboration with

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. Along with Sergey Korzhukov who died in 1994, Mikhail Tanich cofounded the group Lesopoval.

Death

Mikhail Tanich died on 17 April 2008 at the 85th year of life in Moscow, the cause of death was chronic

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and long-term cancer. He was buried on 19 April 2008 in section 25 (behind the columbarium building) of

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in Moscow.

Family

*Spouse – lyrics writer Lydia Kozlova *Children – Inga Kozlova,

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Achievements and awards

*Laureate of the Interior Ministry Award (1997) *Laureate of the

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National Music Award (1997) *

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* Order or Honour (1998) *

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(1985) *

(1945) *

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanich, Mikhail 1923 births 2008 deaths Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery Russian Jews Russian male poets Writers from Taganrog Jewish songwriters Recipients of the Order of Glory Soviet military personnel of World War II Honored Workers of the Arts Industry of the Russian Federation