Mikhail Isaievich Tanich (Tankhilevich) (russian: Михаил Исаевич Танич) (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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. 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. In 1947, he was arrested on the grounds of false accusations, and spent time in prison until 1953. After the war Tanich lived in

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and worked on the radio and in the press. 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 Raisa Nemetova and Maya Kristalinskaya. He has also co-authored with many Soviet composers such as

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, Arkady Ostrovsky, Vadim Gamaliya,

Oscar Feltsman Oscar Borisovich Feltsman (russian: Оскар Борисович Фельцман; 18 February 1921 – 3 February 2013) was a Ukrainian-born composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He was the father of Vladimir Feltsman. Biography Felts ...

Nikita Bogoslovsky Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (russian: Ники́та Влади́мирович Богосло́вский; 22 May 1913 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 4 April 2004 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of ...

Vladimir Shainsky Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky ( rus, Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ʂɐˈinskʲɪj; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was a recipient of the People's Artist of ...

. Other composers Tanich has worked with include

Igor Nikolayev Igor Yuryevich Nikolayev (russian: link=no, И́горь Ю́рьевич Никола́ев; born 17 January 1960) is a Russian composer, singer and song-writer. Biography Nikolayev was born in Kholmsk, Sakhalin Oblast, into the family of Sa ...

Arkady Ukupnik Arkady Semyonovich Ukupnik (russian: Арка́дий Семёнович Уку́пник; born February 18, 1953, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

and

Vyacheslav Malezhik Vyacheslav Yefimovich Malezhik (russian: Вячесла́в Ефи́мович Малежик; born 17 February 1947 in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital ...

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

Family

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

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) *

People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an h ...

(2003)Указ Президента России от 15 сентября 2003 года
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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