Mykola Petrovych Mozghovyi (1 September 194730 July 2010) was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer, producer, and songwriter. He was born in Sarniv,

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Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...

, Ukraine. Mozhovyy's major success was the song "

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", written for

Sofia Rotaru Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru ( ; ; ; born 7 August 1947), known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian origin. Rotaru, nicknamed "Bukovinsky Solovey" ("the Nightingale from Bukovina"), emerged in 1966 as a po ...

and produced by

Melodiya Melodiya () is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company of the Soviet Union. History Melodiya was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya" in accordance wi ...

. He was a manager of

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in 2000s.Микола МОЗГОВИЙ: Артистам все одно за кого співати, – аби гроші платили

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* 1947 births 2010 deaths People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast Soviet male composers Ukrainian record producers Ukrainian songwriters Ukrainian-language singers {{ukraine-composer-stub