Since 1992, Russian singer-songwriters have created their own association. It became the first creative union of people united by the idea of ​​​​shaping public consciousness. At that time, the Association of Russian Bards (ARBA) was represented by 30 authors. Today there are many more of them. This article will name the most famous bards of Russia, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Departed representatives of a great era

At the origins of the bard movement are masters, many of whom passed away at a time when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union. Among them:

• Yuri Vizbor. He left our world in 1984 at the age of 50. The singer-songwriter, who has Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots, was associated with Moscow all his life and considered himself Russian. He even chose a special specialty - a teacher of Russian literature. Known as a journalist, screenwriter and actor, Yuri Vizbor was also a mountain climber who conquered more than one peak. He wrote more than three hundred songs that are still popular: “Seryoga Sanin”, “Dombai Waltz”, “My Darling”.
• Vladimir Vysotsky. He passed away in 1980. To the legendary singer, who created more than 800 works, was only 42 years old. His popularity among the people has not waned at all over time. He created a number of unforgettable images both on stage and in cinema. Among him best songs- “Mass graves”, “Finicky horses”, “Song about a friend”.
• Bulat Okudzhava. Born into an Armenian-Georgian family, Bulat Shalvovich lived to be 73 years old. He passed away in 1997. A former front-line soldier, he is rightfully considered the founder of the art song. Russian bards recognize his authority and still perform his best works: “Georgian Song”, “Your Honor”, ​​“Union of Friends”.

Indisputable authorities

The deceased bards of Russia, the list of which will be presented below, are the pride of the national culture:

• Victor Berkovsky. A native of Ukraine, he lived to see his 73rd birthday. A professional scientist, Victor was outstanding composer and became famous not only as an independent author, but also a member creative team, which included Sergei Nikitin and Dmitry Sukharev. Among his most popular songs are “Grenada”, “To the Music of Vivaldi”, “On the Distant Amazon”.
• Novella Matveeva. The poet and songwriter died in 2016, she was 81 years old. She left behind a huge legacy, and among her songs, “The Tavern Girl” is especially popular.
• Ada Yakusheva. A native of Leningrad lived a long life. She died at the age of 78 in 2012 and is well known as an original and interesting poet. Many Russian bards perform her works. For example, Varvara Vizbor gave new life song "You are my breath".
• Yuri Kukin. The songwriter passed away in 2011, he was 78. Leningrad region started his career as an athlete, but later became professional artist Lenconcert. The author's most famous songs are "Rope Walker", "Behind the Fog", "Spring Song".

Living masters

The best bards of Russia participate in art song rallies as jury members. In August in Samara region The 50th festival took place. V. Grushin, who gathered the elite from among the ARBA members. Among them, a special place is occupied by Alexander Gorodnitsky, who celebrated his 85th birthday in March. The author is still in action and delights listeners with his the best works. These are "Rifles", "Atlantas" and others.

60-year-old Alexey Ivashchenko performed for a long time in a duet with G. Vasiliev (“Glafira”, “The Ninth Wave”), but in the 2000s they creative union fell apart. However, the author and performer is still among the best bards in Russia, delighting listeners with new songs, including “Stainless Steel” and “I am the best in the world.”

Many are fans of the work of 65-year-old Leonid Sergeev, author of "Road", "Old House" and "History", as well as 74-year-old Sergei Nikitin, whose songs adorned Russians' favorite films - "The Irony of Fate", "Almost funny story", "Quiet pools".

The author of the song “How Great,” which has become the anthem of most art song festivals, is 62-year-old Oleg Mityaev. Russian bards consider him an undeniable authority, who, as a rule, completes concert programs. He is easily recognized by his favorite works: “The Neighbor”, “Summer is a Little Life”.

Alexander Rosenbaum, who has achieved significant success in national stage. His "Boston Waltz" Duck hunting", "Homeless Room" and other works are included in the golden fund of Russian culture.

The best bards of Russia are women

62-year-old Veronica Dolina should be included in the list of the best singer-songwriters. Mother of four children, she created unique collection Very women's works, the number of which reaches five hundred. Veronica Dolina has published 19 collections of poems and is the winner of many literary awards.

In the original song there are bright performers who present the works of other authors. One of these talented singers is 58-year-old Galina Khomchik, whom B. Okudzhava classified as “missionaries of sounding poetry.”

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The bard's (author's) song has become an important component cultural life THE USSR. Let's remember those famous Soviet bards who are no longer with us, but whose work left a bright and unforgettable mark.
ADELUNG GEORGE(Yuri) NIKOLAEVICH(April 3, 1945 – January 6, 1993).

Born in Moscow. Graduated from the 3rd year of the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. Worked as a geologist. Since 1962 he wrote songs based on his own poems. He regularly took part in difficult raft trips and went mountaineering. Last years was an industrial climber.
The author of many songs, one of which - “You and I have not been the same for a long time...” - has become, as they say now, a cult favorite in certain circles, incl. geological
He died in Moscow while working on a high-rise building. ANCHAROV MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH(28 March 1923 - 11 July 1990).


One of the founders of the art song genre in the USSR.
Born, lived and died in Moscow. In 1941, from the first year of the Architectural Institute, he went to the front, fought as a paratrooper, and was demobilized in 1947. Graduated music school in piano class, Military Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and Moscow State Art Institute. Surikov. Writer, poet, playwright, translator, architect, painter. The author of the amazing stories “The Theory of Improbability”, “Golden Rain”, the novels “Notes of a Wandering Enthusiast”, “Boxwood Forest”, etc., which influenced the worldview of more than one generation. Since 1967 - member of the USSR Writers' Union. The first Soviet television series “Day by Day” was filmed based on his script.
He wrote songs from the second half of the 30s, mainly based on his own poems. He played the seven-string guitar. The author of such well-known songs at the time as “MAZ”, “Drip-Drip”, “Ballad of Parachutes”, “Big April Ballad”, “Anti-Phibitsh Song”, “Song about a psycho from the Gannushkin hospital who did not give it to the orderlies” your border cap”, etc.
Vladimir Vysotsky called Ancharov his teacher.
BASAEV MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH(January 2, 1951 – November 2, 1991).


Born in Ivanovo. Graduated from music school, violin class. He studied at the Ivanovo Energy Institute (1968-1973), during his studies he began to study original songs. Tourist-waterman, candidate for master of sports in water tourism. Laureate of art song festivals in Kostroma, Ivanovo, Kalinin, Sosnovy Bor. His “Kostroma”, “Mame”, “Night Station”, “Mood” are still heard at art song festivals, and the song “Catamaran” has become the anthem of several generations of water tourists.
Tragically died on November 2, 1991. In 1995, Ivanovo creative association"Reform" released a collection of his poems and songs, "For Those Who Can't Get There."
BACHURIN EVGENY VLADIMIROVICH(25 May 1934 - 1 January 2015).


Born in Leningrad, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Printing Institute. Painter, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1968). He played six- and seven-string guitar. He began writing poetry at the age of 7, and songs based on his poems since 1967. For some time he performed with the ensemble “Golden and Blue”. Several records were released by the Melodiya company (the first, “Chess on the Balcony,” was released in 1980).
Bachurin’s songs are heard on radio and television, in films and performances - for example, the famous songs “Trees” (from the television play “Lika”), “Fly blue, little dove” (from the play “Cliff”).
BASHLACHEV ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH(“SashBash”. May 27, 1960 - February 17, 1988).

Born in Cherepovets, where he lived until 1984. Since 1977 he worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant as an artist. In 1978 he entered the Ural State University (Sverdlovsk) at the Faculty of Journalism. The first one appeared in 1983 famous song Bashlacheva - “ Griboyedov's Waltz"("The Ballad of Stepan"). After graduating from university, he returned to Cherepovets and worked for the newspaper Kommunist. In September 1984 he showed his songs to A. Troitsky, whom he had met shortly before. At the suggestion of Troitsky, he went to Moscow with a series of apartment shows (concerts held in an ordinary apartment, at home). Then he went to Leningrad, where he stayed. He played countless apartment shows in Leningrad, Moscow and other cities. In the spring of 1987, he began filming in A. Uchitel’s documentary “Rock,” but during the filming process he refused to participate in them. All footage of Bashlachev was removed from the film. In June he performed at the V festival of the Leningrad rock club, where he received the “Nadezhda” prize. In August I wrote my last song (not preserved). From that day on, I didn’t write any new songs and was in constant depression. In September, he began filming in P. Soldatenkov’s documentary “Bards Leave the Yards, or Playing with the Unknown,” but during the process he refused to appear in film.
On February 17, 1988, he committed suicide by jumping from the 8th floor.


Bashlachev’s songs “Time of Bells”, “Vanyusha”, “Funeral of a Jester”, “Musician” and others received real recognition.
BERKOVSKY VIKTOR SEMYONOVICH(July 13, 1932 – July 22, 2005).

Born in Zaporozhye, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) and graduate school, metallurgist. He worked at a factory in Zaporozhye for 8 years, and taught rolling in India for several years. Candidate of Technical Sciences (1967), Associate Professor at MISiS.

He wrote songs based on other people's poems. The names of the poets speak for themselves: Yu. Levitansky, D. Sukharev, R. Rozhdestvensky, R. Kipling... He was one of the leaders of the famous project “Songs of Our Century”. The songs “Remember, Guys”, “Gloria”, “On the Distant Amazon”, “Night Road”, “Cinematograph”, “To the Music of Vivaldi” and many others are widely known.
VAKHNYUK BORIS SAVELIEVICH(October 16, 1933 – June 2, 2005).

Born in the village. Grishki of the Volkovinets district of the Kamenets-Podolsk region of the Ukrainian SSR (now Derazhnyansky Khmelnitsky district region Ukraine). Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin with a degree in “teacher of Russian language, literature, history of the USSR.” Since 1955, he wrote songs based on his poems and played the 7-string guitar. He was a laureate of the tourist song competitions of the I and II All-Union Youth Marches in Brest (1965) and Moscow (1966), and was an active participant and member of the jury of the Grushinsky and Ilmensky art song festivals. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, then - the Union of Journalists of Russia. Master of Sports of the USSR in football. In 1964-1968. - correspondent for the radio station “Yunost”; in 1968-1978 - correspondent for the sound magazine "Krugozor". Since 1978 - film playwright.
Vakhnyuk’s songs “Terema”, “Running Headlong”, “Calm Down” were sung by Alla Pugacheva; some of his songs were sung by others famous performers: Nani Bregvadze, Muslim Magomaev, Joseph Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina, Vladimir Troshin.
He died in an accident: he and his two granddaughters, 6 and 9 years old, were hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing.
VIZBOR YURI IOSIFOVICH(20 June 1934 – 17 September 1984).


Born, lived and died in Moscow. He had Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots (his future father Jozef Vizboras arrived in Moscow in 1917, where he met Maria Shevchenko, who came from Krasnodon), but considered himself a Russian person. Graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. He worked as a teacher in the North, and served in the army there. He was a correspondent for the Yunost radio station, Krugozor magazine, and a screenwriter at the studio documentaries. Member of the Union of Journalists and Cinematographers of the USSR. As an actor, he starred in the films “July Rain” by Marlen Khutsiev, “Retribution” by Alexander Stolper, “Red Tent” by Mikhail Kalatozov, “Rudolfio” by Dinara Asanova, “You and Me” by Larisa Shepitko, “The Beginning” by Gleb Panfilov, “Seventeen Moments of Spring” » Tatiana Lioznova (the role of Borman). He was engaged in mountaineering, participated in expeditions to the Pamirs, the Caucasus and the Tien Shan, and was a ski instructor.


A generally recognized luminary of the art song genre. He has been writing songs based on his poems since 1951 (with a few exceptions). The author of three hundred wonderful songs, including the iconic “My Darling” (“Forest Sun”), “Dombai Waltz”, “You Are the Only One for Me”, “Seryoga Sanin”, “The Story of Technologist Petukhov...” (“But we do rockets, / And blocked the Yenisei, / And also in the field of ballet / We are ahead of the rest."
VYSOTSKY VLADIMIR SEMYONOVICH(January 25, 1938 – July 25, 1980).

Born in Moscow. After graduating from school, he studied for some time at the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering, but soon left it and entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School. Worked in Moscow drama theater named after Pushkin, in 1964-1980 - at the Moscow Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater. His songs were performed on stage in several performances. Since 1959 he acted in films; he composed a significant number of songs for films, although not all songs were eventually included in films. In the second half of the 60s, he began performing songs, accompanying himself on a 7-string guitar, in friendly companies, and later at public evenings and concerts. Thanks to tape recordings, the circle of his listeners rapidly expanded, a short time Vysotsky gained nationwide popularity and displeasure among the Soviets. official circles. His reputation acquired a certain shade of “seditiousness.”
In the second half of the seventies, he often visited abroad and gave concerts in France, the USA, Canada and other countries. Until the very end of his life he continued active concert activities.
It is difficult to find aspects of life that he would not touch upon in his song creativity. This and love lyrics, and ballads, and stylizations of “thieves” songs, as well as songs on political topics (often satirical or even containing sharp criticism of the social system), songs about the attitude towards life of ordinary people, humorous songs, fairy tale songs and even songs on behalf of inanimate people "characters" (eg, "Microphone Song"). Many songs are written in the first person and were later called “monologue songs.” In others there could be several characters, whose “roles” Vysotsky played by changing his voice (for example, “Dialogue in front of the TV”). These are original “songs-performances” written for performance by one “actor”.


In 1987, Vysotsky was posthumously awarded State Prize USSR, according to the official wording - for creating the image of Zheglov in the television feature film “The meeting place cannot be changed” and the author’s performance of songs.
In 1989, the State cultural center-museum Vladimir Vysotsky.
GALICH ALEXANDER ARKADIEVICH (real name- Ginzburg. October 19, 1918 - December 15, 1977).

Born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), he spent his childhood in Sevastopol and lived in Moscow before emigrating. Since 1972 - Orthodox. Graduated from the theater studio named after. Stanislavsky. During the Great Patriotic War was declared unfit for military service due to health reasons, was one of the organizers, leaders and participants of the Komsomol Front Theater. He has been composing songs based on his poems since the late 50s. Author of about 20 plays and film scripts. Winner of the KGB Prize for the script of the film “State Criminal”. His work developed, as it were, in two directions: on the one hand - lyrical major and pathos in drama (plays about communists, scripts about security officers), on the other - mockery and satire in songs. When Galich first performed several satirical songs at an amateur song rally in Petushki, many participants in the rally accused him of insincerity and duplicity.
Since 1955 - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, expelled in 1971. Since 1958, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, expelled in 1972. The events that followed his expulsion from the Unions showed that Galich was completely unprepared for them and did not expect reprisals against himself. Although this was strange: while composing his anti-party songs, he could not help but understand that he was playing with fire... Galich’s situation became catastrophic. He had just been one of the most successful authors in the country, received a lot of money, which he spent heartily in expensive restaurants and foreign voyages - and all this disappeared overnight. Performances were withdrawn from the repertoire, and the production of films that had started was frozen. Galich began to slowly sell off his rich library, earn extra money as a “literary black” (write for others), and give paid (3 rubles for admission) home concerts.
In June 1974 he left the USSR. He joined the NTS (People's Labor Union), worked at the Radio Liberty station. Died in Paris. On December 15, 1977, a Grundig stereo combine was delivered to Galich’s apartment from Italy, they said that the connection would be tomorrow, for which a master would come, but Galich decided to try out the TV immediately, fortunately his wife went to the store. Little familiar with technology, he inserted the antenna instead of the required socket into the hole on the back wall of the equipment, touching it with high voltage circuits. He was electrocuted, he fell, rested his feet on the battery and thus closed the circuit...
Western media (and, naturally, Soviet dissidents) without any reason attributed Galich’s death to “the machinations of the KGB.”
DULOV ALEXANDER ANDREEVICH(May 15, 1931 – November 15, 2007).


Born and lived in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, worked at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, and defended his doctoral dissertation.
He has been writing songs since 1950 (mainly based on other people's poems). He accompanied himself on a 7-string guitar; he had no musical education. His most famous song “The Lame King” is available in Russian, French, German languages, and also in Esperanto. Dulov’s songs “Taiga”, “Smoky Tea”, “Telepathy”, “Unhappy Girl” and others also became widely known in the Russian-speaking environment.
Zhdanov ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH(February 10, 1948 – February 9, 2013).


Born in the village of Shirokiy, Donetsk region. He received his musical education from a blind music teacher, bringing his button accordion to his lessons from the farm to the city recreation center. Then I learned the guitar. Philologist, environmental engineer. Lived and worked in Moscow.
Since 1960, he has written more than 400 songs, two thirds of which were not materialized in recordings. Many of his songs became famous, in particular, “Where We Are Not,” “Skif,” “Master of the Void,” “White Boat” and others.
He died suddenly from viral pneumonia half an hour before his sixty-fifth birthday.
ZAKHARCHENKO LYUBOV IVANOVNA(April 4, 1961 – January 21, 2008).


Born in Rostov-on-Don. At the same time, she took five preparatory courses at Rostov State University: philology, history, law, biology and mechanics, and eventually chose the Faculty of Law, from which she graduated in 1984. She worked as an investigator and assistant prosecutor, and taught public law at the university for 3 years.
She has been writing songs based on her poems since 1975. In 1986, she received the Grand Prix of the First All-Union Festival of Art Songs, after which she began active touring. Traveled all over the Union. For several years she was the organizer of the Rostov Metro festival.
The most famous songs are “Garden” (“ Black currant"), "Light Bulb", "There is a war, but this is not an event...", "Monologue of a modern Hunchback", etc.
On January 21, 2008, she died suddenly: her heart could not stand it. There are persistent rumors that it was suicide.
IVANOVA LYUDMILA IVANOVNA(22 June 1933 – 7 October 2016).

Born in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School in 1955 and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Traveling Drama Theater. In 1957 she moved to the Sovremennik Theater. She starred in more than 80 films (one of her most memorable film roles is, of course, the accountant Shurochka in the film “ Love affair at work"). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). In 1990, she founded the children's musical theater "Improvt" at GITIS, where she directed the children's acting studio. She taught a course at the acting department of the International Slavic Institute named after. Gabriel Derzhavin. She was a professor at the Slavic Academy of Humanities.
She started writing songs in the 60s. Lyudmila's husband was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, bard and writer Valery Milyaev. They met in the 60s, Valery was already famous bard. In one of their first meetings, he sang “Gorky Street” and said: “I really like this song. Ada Yakusheva wrote it.” Lyudmila was offended: “How is this Yakusheva?!” This is my song!
In addition to “Gorky Street”, Ivanova wrote the famous “Maybe”, “Half”, “About the Chief”, etc.
KLYACHKIN EVGENY ISAAKOVICH(March 23, 1934 – July 30, 1994).


Born in Leningrad. In April 1942, during the blockade, Evgeniy’s mother died, his father was at the front, and the boy was evacuated to the Yaroslavl region, where he was raised in an orphanage. In September 1945, the father returning from the front took his son to Leningrad.
Graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute. He worked as a design engineer in construction organizations in Leningrad, then in the Leningrad branch of the Art Fund.
He has been writing songs since 1961. Laureate of the I and II Leningrad amateur song competitions (1965 and 1967), the tourist song competition of the I All-Union rally of winners of hikes to places of military glory in Brest (1965), the II All-Union competition for the best tourist song in Moscow (1969). He was a member and chairman of the jury of many festivals. He performed as an artist of Lenconcert and Rosconcert. Wrote more than 300 songs.
In 1990, he and his family left for permanent residence in Israel, where he lived until his death.
KRUPP ARON YAKOVLEVICH(“Arik.” October 30, 1937 – March 25, 1971).

Born in Daugavpils (Latvia). During the war he lived in evacuation in Alma-Ata, then in Latvian Liepaja. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (1964), was assigned to Minsk, and worked as an optical engineer at the S.I. Vavilov plant.
He began writing songs in 1959 based on his poems. Laureate of the tourist song competitions of the I and II All-Union Youth Marches in Brest (1965) and Moscow (1966). He was the chairman of the first Minsk KSP (amateur song club) “Svitsyaz”.
He was interested in mountain tourism and mountaineering. On March 25, 1971, A. Krupp and eight of his comrades: Misha Koren, Anya Nekhaeva, Volodya Skakun, Sasha Nosko, Vadim Kazarin, Sasha Fabrisenko, Fedya Gimein, Igor Korneev died in an avalanche during a hike in the Eastern Sayan Mountains.
KUKIN YURY ALEXEEVICH(July 17, 1932 – July 7, 2011).

Born in the village of Syasstroy, Leningrad Region, until 1973 he lived in Peterhof, then in Leningrad. Graduated with honors from the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education. Lesgaft in 1954. Worked as a trainer figure skating in children's sports schools Petrodvorets, Lomonosov, Leningrad.
He began writing songs in 1948, first for jazz, where he played the drum, then for institute skits. Since 1963, songs written during geological expeditions to Kamchatka appeared, Far East, Pamir, to Mountain Shoria. Laureate of the tourist song competition of the II All-Union Youth March in Moscow (1966). Since 1968 he has performed on behalf of Lenconcert, since 1971 he has worked at the Leningradskaya regional philharmonic society, since 1979 - in Lenconcert, since 1988 - in the Leningrad theater-studio "Benefit". Author of the songs “Behind the Fog”, “Train”, “Behind the Fog”, which have become bard classics. Little Gnome", "Paris", "You say that I should stay...", etc.
LANTSBERG VLADIMIR ISAAKOVICH("Berg". June 22, 1948 - September 29, 2005).


One of the classics of bard song. Born in Saratov, lived in Moscow and Nuremberg. He graduated from the Saratov Polytechnic Institute, worked as a mechanical engineer in a design bureau, an engineer for gaming machines, a laboratory assistant at a school, a musician at a boarding house, the head of a design and communication center, a teacher-organizer, and a deputy. director of a children's rehabilitation center, methodologist of the school local history center. Founder of Kostrov and Channel Two. Member of initiative groups of summer labor camps “Zucchini”, “Bonfire” rallies, “Second Channel” competitions and workshops, “LDPR” children’s bard camp (“Flying Children’s Singing Republic”) at the Grushinsky festivals, head of creative workshops, incl. children's Laureate of many art song festivals. Author of famous songs " Scarlet Sails", "Cat Waltz", "Artist", etc., as well as wonderful book“And sing for us, and sing happily!” - a kind of collection of KSP jokes.
LARIONOV VALERY GRIGORIEVICH(28 June 1953 - 14 May 1994).


Lived in Kaliningrad. Since 1985, he actively participated in the activities of the Kaliningrad KSP “Parus”. He wrote songs based on his poems. He willingly took part in various bardic festivals. He organized a youth motorcycle club, bought spare parts for old motorcycles with his own money, which “at the dawn of perestroika” he tried to earn by ferrying cars from Germany. He was killed by robbers for one of these cars imported from Germany.
We are left with his wonderful songs “Africa”, “Princess” and others. Since 1994, on the shores of the Baltic Sea near the city of Pionersk, an annual festival of art songs in memory of Valery Larionov, organized by activists of the Parus Communist Party, has been held.
LOPATIN ALEXANDER ANATOLIEVICH(February 5, 1965 - May 15, 1993).


Born in Vitebsk. He graduated from the College of Light Industry, receiving the profession of radio engineer. He stood at the origins of the Vitebsk art song club “Accord” and the first AP festival in Vitebsk “Hat”, which later became the famous “Vitebsk Leaf Fall”. He was one of the authors of the literary and journalistic magazine "Idiot", published first in Moscow (1983-1985), then in Vitebsk.
The author of many songs that were never recorded during his life, which tragically and absurdly ended on May 15, 1993.
The festival in memory of Alexander Lopatin “Islands” is being held in Vitebsk.
LUFEROV VIKTOR ARKHIPOVICH(20 May 1945 – 1 March 2010).

Born and lived in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Moscow Veterinary Academy and the variety department of the State Musical Pedagogical College named after. Gnessins in guitar class. He worked as a laboratory assistant at the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, as a poster putter, as a janitor, and as a fireman on duty. He wrote songs since 1966, mainly based on his own poems, and played a 6-string guitar. In 1967 he created the ensemble "Osenebry" (existed until 1970). In February 1985 he founded the Perekrestok theater studio (the project was closed in 2003 for financial reasons). Luferov is the author of the famous songs “Hat”, “Song for Two Voices”, “Before I came to you, I went to the Lord...” and others.
MATVEEVA VERA ILYINICHNA(23 October 1945 – 11 August 1976).

Born in Kuibyshevka-Eastern Amur Region. (now the city of Belogorsk), lived and died in the city of Khimki, Moscow region. She has been writing songs since 1967, mainly based on her own poems. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering (1970) and was sent to work at the Moscow Institute "Hydroproject". But she did not have the chance to work at Gidroproekt due to a tumor on the dura mater of the brain discovered by doctors. 10/16/1970 at the Neurosurgical Institute named after. Burdenko Matveeva was operated on and the tumor was removed. The doctors carried out radiological treatment, but the doctors determined Vera’s remaining life to be 4-6 years, and Matveeva knew about it. Because of this, the concentration and strength of feelings in her songs reached impossible heights, which, probably, no one, neither before Matveeva nor after, could achieve in an original song.
Having managed to write only about 60 songs, Vera Matveeva joined the ranks of the classics of the genre. Her songs are still in the repertoire of many performers today and are published in collections and anthologies of original songs. Since 1981, tourist rallies in her memory have been held in the Moscow region.
MATVEEVA NOVELLA NIKOLAEVNA(October 7, 1934 – September 4, 2016).


Born in Tsarskoe Selo (now the city of Pushkin), Leningrad region. Poetess, prose writer, bard, playwright, literary critic. From 1950 to 1957 she worked in an orphanage in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region. She wrote poetry from childhood and published it since 1958. Graduated from the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute named after. Gorky. Member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1961. More than 20 books and more than 10 music albums have been published (a record of her songs, released in 1966, was the first in the USSR music album bard song). All Soviet Union knew N. Matveeva’s songs “Gypsy”, “Dolphin Country”, etc.
MILYAEV VALERY ALEKSANDROVICH(August 5, 1937 – December 16, 2011).


Born in Kuibyshev, grew up and lived in Moscow. Graduated from the physics department of Moscow State University. One of the founders of the physics department's propaganda team. Physicist, director of the Tarusa branch of the Institute general physics Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, head. Department of Environmental and Medical Devices of the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Scientific Secretary of the Academy of IPRB, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor.
In recent years, he has worked closely with the children’s musical theater “Improvm”, organized by his wife, actress Lyudmila Ivanova, for whose performances he wrote many texts.
Authorship itself famous song Milyaeva - “Spring Tango” (also known as “The Time Comes” or “Here is an eccentric man walking around the world...”) - many mistakenly attribute it to Sergei Nikitin, who often performed it. “Spring Tango” sounds in the “Songs of Our Century” project as one of the most famous and “folk” songs.
OKUDZHAVA BULAT SHALVOVICH(9 May 1924 - 12 June 1997).


Born in Moscow into a family of communists who came from Tiflis to study at the Communist Academy (father is Georgian, mother is Armenian). In 1942 he went to the front, served as a mortarman, and after being wounded and hospitalized - as a signalman. In 1945 he was demobilized. In 1950 he graduated from the philological department of Tbilisi State University and worked for two years as a teacher of Russian language and literature in the village of Shamordino Kaluga region. In 1952 he transferred to a school in Kaluga, then worked in the publishing house of the regional Kaluga newspaper “Young Leninist”. In 1956 he returned to Moscow, worked as an editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, head. poetry department at Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1961 he left the service and studied creative activity. Since 1962 - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
I wrote poetry since childhood. The first song appeared in 1943. He also wrote prose and film scripts.
With the beginning of “perestroika,” he actively plunged into politics, declaring himself a democrat. In 1990 he left the CPSU, where he had been a member since 1955. He approved the shooting of the White House in October 1993, signed the “letter of the 42” addressed to Yeltsin, calling for a ban on all types of communist parties and movements, and the closure of newspapers. Soviet Russia", "Day", "Pravda", "Literary Russia", the television program "600 seconds", recognize the Congress of People's Deputies as illegitimate, The Supreme Council RF and all bodies formed by them, incl. even the Constitutional Court. Gave a corresponding interview to the newspaper Podmoskovnye Izvestia. As sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky later said, “I somehow don’t want to listen to Okudzhava’s songs about “commissars in dusty helmets” after his statements that he doesn’t feel sorry for the unarmed people who died in the White House.” The wonderful actor Vladimir Gostyukhin publicly broke and trampled on a record of Okudzhava’s songs. The famous literary critic, literary scholar, and publicist Vadim Kozhinov publicly refused to shake hands with those who signed this “execution” letter.
Okudzhava died in Paris. The last thing he wrote was a congratulatory poem for A. Chubais’ birthday.
SEMAKOV LEONID PAVLOVICH(7 July 1941 - 8 August 1988).

Born in the village of Slobodishchi Vologda region, lived and died in Moscow. He graduated from the Odessa Naval School, then the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. He worked as an actor and director in theaters in Vladimir, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Leningrad, and Moscow. He began writing songs based on his poems in 1968, when he worked at the Taganka Theater (for some time he was an understudy for V. Vysotsky).
Due to a rare genetic disease, Semakov’s joints began to enlarge and his voice changed. In 1972, Leonid was forced to leave the theater and was a laborer, geologist, taxi driver, and fisherman. He spoke about this period of his life: “I could barely move, the pain was terrible. The doctor advised me to walk more, so I went. First to the Urals and back, then to the south.” Since 1981, he has worked as a screenwriter and director of documentaries and popular science films. He left us many original songs, incl. “Strawberry Meadow”, “Mother”, “Monologue of Foma Gordeev”.
STERKIN SERGEY YAKOVLEVICH(25 May 1942 - 25 April 1986).


Born and lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the Moscow Energy Institute. He worked at the Moscow Electric Tube Plant (MELZ), as a shop manager at the Chromotron plant, as a chief project designer at VNIIKA Neftegaz, and in the last year of his life he was the director of the MELZ House of Culture.
Since 1959, he has written songs mainly based on other people’s poems, less often on his own. He usually accompanied himself on the accordion. He was an active participant and author of performances of STEM (student theater of variety miniatures) MPEI; he became famous as a songwriter after a trip to 1960 with a student propaganda brigade, then he appeared in the songs “Lotoshinskaya Propaganda Brigade” and “Dorozhnaya”.
Many of his songs became famous thanks to guitar arrangements made by other performers. He opened for the musical community songs based on the poems of A. Aronov “If you don’t have an aunt...” and R. Rozhdestvensky “Moments”, which later became widely known with the music of M. Tariverdiev.
TKACHEV ALEXANDER VASILIEVICH(January 18, 1955 – November 9, 2010).

Born in Moscow. Graduated high school(with a gold medal in piano) at the Yurlovsky choir, which was under the patronage of the Gnessin School. Graduated from MITHT (Moscow Institute of Fine Arts) chemical technology them. Lomonosov). Chemical engineer. PhD in Chemistry.
He worked at the department of MITHT, at the Physicochemical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 1996 - in a private company.
He has been writing songs based on his poems since 1970. Winner of the “Physical Song” festival (1976), laureate of the II and III Moscow amateur song competitions (late 70s), laureate of the MEPhI-76, “Moskvorechye-76” competitions, and many others. He is widely known for his highly social songs “Lecture on the international situation in a prehistoric tribe”, “In memory of Vysotsky”, etc.
CHUGUEV GENNADY IRAKLIEVICH(October 6, 1960 – June 30, 2009).


Born in Tbilisi. He studied at the Leningrad University of Aviation and Space Instrumentation, majoring in radio engineering. Worked as an electronics engineer in Baku. He was a member of the Baku Art Song Club (1984-1987). Diploma winner of a number of festivals in the Southern region. He was engaged in mountain tourism and mountaineering. Rescue instructor. In 1986 he took part in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In recent years he lived in Taganrog. Author of the famous songs “Underwater Snake”, “Knock”, “Pain”, etc.
YAKUSHEVA(Kusurgasheva) ARIADNE(Ada) ADAMOVNA(24 January 1934 – 6 October 2012).

Born in Leningrad, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after. Lenin. Radio journalist, member of the Union of Journalists. In 1966-1968 she worked as editor of the Yunost radio station.
She wrote songs based on her poems. The first - “Song to Moscow” (“At the institute under the arches of the stairs ...”) - was composed in 1954. She was the organizer and director of the ensemble of the MGPI song studio. The author of many favorite songs “Evening wanders along the forest paths...”, “You are my breath”, etc. Some songs were written by Yakusheva together with Yu. Vizbor, whose wife she was from 1958 to 1968 (in 1968 she married radio journalist Maxim Kusurgashev).

Bards of Russia are representatives of a vast layer of Russian musical and song culture, which has developed since the early 50s of the last century.

A bard and a singer in one person, consistent in his work. The songs of bards in Russia are distinguished by a variety of genres and styles. Some sing humorous ditties, others try to touch the romantic feelings of listeners with their songs. Many Russian bards use the themes of their songs to achieve a satirical effect.

Vladimir Vysotsky - People's Artist, Russian bard

There is an author's song, whose work certainly belongs to high art song genre. There are only a few such bards, the most famous of them is Vladimir Vysotsky, who is deservedly considered consummate master original song. Vysotsky had a unique gift of transformation; many of his songs are written as if from the point of view of a character - it could be an inanimate object, an airplane or a submarine, a microphone on stage or an echo in the mountains.

The song begins and the character comes to life. YAK is a fighter, lives his own life, participates in air combat as if on his own, and the pilot only interferes with him. And such bright examples, there are many unique songs written in the first person.

Vysotsky's original songs are divided according to plot features. He has “yard”, “lyrical”, “sports”, “military”. Each song is a masterpiece of poetry, set to a simple melody. The talent of the great Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky is limitless, which is why he was given national recognition, and his work is immortal.

Bulat Okudzhava

Bulat Okudzhava is another outstanding Russian bard, poet and performer of original songs. He is a prominent representative of Russia's literary elite, composer and director. But the red thread running through Okudzhava’s entire work was the author’s song, which was part of the poet’s life, a way of his self-expression. Bulat Okudzhava has several brilliant works in the genre of art songs, the main one of which is the recitative “We need one victory” from the film “Belarusian Station”.

Bulat Okudzhava was the first Russian bard who was allowed to perform his original songs. This event took place in 1961. The following year, Bulat Shalvovich was accepted as a member of Union B. During his trip to France, the bard recorded twenty songs that were published in Paris under the title Le Soldat en Papier. In the seventies, records with songs by Bulat Okudzhava began to be released in the USSR.

The best bards of Russia

Rosenbaum Alexander - an outstanding Russian bard, a resuscitator by training, graduated from the First medical school in Leningrad. He began writing original songs in 1968 for skit performances and student performances. Currently, he is one of the most popular Russian bards with an extensive repertoire, and is included in the list of Russian bards - in the top five. In 2005, Alexander Rosenbaum combined parliamentary duties with concert activities.

Vizbor Yuri is a teacher by profession, a bard by vocation, a mountaineer, skier and journalist. Author of numerous songs about mountain peaks, climbing and rafting on mountain rivers. From the pen of Yuri Vizbor came the cult song of students and all youth of the 60s, “You’re the only one I have.” The community "Bards of Russia" arose on the initiative of Vizbor.

Evgeny Klyachkin, civil engineer, poet, bard, romantic, author of three hundred songs. In 1961, at the age of 17, he wrote his first song “Fog” based on poems by Konstantin Kuzminsky. Started from this day creative path Russian bard Evgeny Klyachkin. At first he wrote songs based on poems by Joseph Brodsky and Andrei Voznesensky. The cycle of songs, collected from romances performed by the characters of the poem "Procession" by I. Brodsky, is still considered the pinnacle of the author's song.

Zhanna Bichevskaya, star of the original song

Zhanna Bichevskaya is a singer who is called the star of the original song. In her work she adheres to the theme of Russian patriotism and Orthodox faith. In the early seventies, Bichevskaya's repertoire included Russian folk songs, which she performed in a bard style, accompanied by an acoustic seven-string guitar. In 1973, Zhanna became a prize-winner at the All-Russian Variety Competition, and in subsequent years she toured all the countries of the socialist camp with concerts. Later she performed repeatedly at the Olympia Hall in Paris to sold-out crowds.

Russian singer of original songs own composition, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was an active member of the “Bards of Russia” community. His early plays were staged in Moscow theaters, and “Sailor’s Silence,” written by Galich in 1958 for the Sovremennik Theater, was released only in 1988, directed by Oleg Tabakov. At the same time, Alexander Galich began writing songs and performing them to his own accompaniment on a seven-string guitar. He took as the basis for his creativity performing traditions Alexander Vertinsky - romance and poetic narration with guitar. Galich's poems in their structure and literary value put him on a par with Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Russian art song has become the main direction in the work of Alexander Galich.

Family duet

The Nikitins, Sergei and Tatyana are a family duet of bards, their music is heard in many films and theater performances. The most famous song - "Alexandra" - was performed in the popular film "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" directed by Vladimir Menshov. Nikitin is a physicist by education, graduated from Moscow State University in 1968, and is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. He has been writing songs since 1962, based on poems by Pasternak, Shpalikov, Bagritsky, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko and other Russian poets. During his student years, Nikitin led a quartet of physicists at Moscow State University, and later became the artistic director of the quintet of the physics department, where he met Tatyana Sadykova, who later became his wife.

All Russian bards of the sixties and seventies can be called "Soviet" because they lived and worked under Soviet rule. However, this epithet says little; the performers of the original song cannot be characterized by either the social system or political conditions - these are people of art, free in their creativity.

Modern pop music does not have many performers who can not only sing a song well (which is already rare), but also write words and music.

Modern pop music does not have many performers who can not only sing a song well (which is already rare), but also write words and music. Unfortunately, the skill of modern “stars” is descending lower and lower from the marble staircase, leaving modern connoisseurs of quality music with much to be desired. The music of the bards of the 20th century is different! We invite you to remember the 5 most famous bards in Russia, who have already become legends.

Who hasn't heard of Vladimir Vysotsky? He had a unique poetic gift - the lyrics of his songs are filled with sharp sarcasm about reality, but at the same time they do not lose optimism. Besides everything else, the songwriter was incredibly talented actor theater and cinema. The cause of his death still remains a mystery, but in the hearts of his fans, Vysotsky is still alive.

Bulat Okudzhava is also one of the brightest representatives of the genre of art song; he is the author of more than 200 compositions, including the famous and covered in various ways “Song of the Street Child”, “Your Honor” and many, many others. Even one of the asteroids in the solar system is named after Okudzhava.

The songs of Yuri Vizbor, in comparison with the painful problems of the two above-mentioned authors, on the contrary, are distinguished by their amazing melody and tenderness. His songs (for example, “My dear, forest sun”) were especially popular in the 60s and 70s. And today many bardic festivals are held in his name.

Alexander Rosenbaum is alive and well to this day, and continues to delight his fans with magnificent songs of his own performance. A unique feature of this author is that he is either adored or simply not perceived, but his talent does not evoke middle emotions. Interestingly, Rosenbaum was originally an emergency doctor, and only in 1980 did he go on stage.

Oleg Mityaev is best known for his song “It’s great that we are all gathered here today,” which was sung at any feast and on any hike. He was born into a simple working-class family, and followed in his father's footsteps. But in the early 80s, music in his heart still triumphed over everyday life, and