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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Булат Окуджава
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9 May 1924 - 12 June 1997
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Bulat Shavlovich Okudzhava personifies a whole era in the Soviet author's song, is the author of more than 200 songs, including pop. Born in 1924, he is left without his father, who was shot during the Stalinist repressions of 1937, and his mother was exiled to a camp, from which she was released only in 1955. Bulata was raised by her grandmother. In 1942, at the age of seventeen, Bulat Okudzhava went to the front, where he was wounded near Mozdok. During this period, his first song was written,
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Bulat Shavlovich Okudzhava personifies a whole era in the Soviet author's song, is the author of more than 200 songs, including pop. Born in 1924, he is left without his father, who was shot during the Stalinist repressions of 1937, and his mother was exiled to a camp, from which she was released only in 1955. Bulata was raised by her grandmother.
In 1942, at the age of seventeen, Bulat Okudzhava went to the front, where he was wounded near Mozdok. During this period, his first song was written, the text of which has not been preserved.
After graduating from Tbilisi State University, he worked for some time as a teacher in the Russian hinterland. In 1959, after moving to Moscow, he quickly became a famous author-performer. His early songs - "Song about the midnight trolleybus", "Moscow Ant", "Song about Lenk Korolev", etc., are gaining popularity among listeners. Numerous songs for movies,
Belarusian Railway Station "Straw Hat,"
Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha ) makes Okudjawa even more popular. In 1968, in Paris, and then in the USSR, discs with his songs were released.
Work in co-authorship with the composer Isaac Schwartz "gives output" more than three dozen songs to the poems of Bulat Shavlovich, including "Your nobility, Lady of Separation", the romance "Wedding outfit".
The last concert of Bulat Shavlovich took place in 1995, on June 23 in Paris, and in 1997, on June 12 in a military hospital near Paris Bulat Shavlovich Okudzhava died. /