Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov (; 2 February 1908 – 5 April 1961) was a Russian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

active in the

Soviet era The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–91) began with the ideals of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, ...

. Kryukov was prominent in the

Soviet film industry The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. ...

, with more than 40

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

credits for films released between 1949 and 1962. His name is attached to the score provided for a 1950 release of Eisenstein's film ''

The Battleship Potemkin '' Battleship Potemkin'' (, ), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 ...

'' (1925).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kryukov, Nikolai Nikolayevich Russian film score composers Russian male film score composers 1908 births 1961 deaths 20th-century Russian composers 20th-century Russian male musicians 1961 suicides Suicides in the Soviet Union