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Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin
Сергей Никитин
Birth at
8 March 1944
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Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin was born on March 8, 1944 in Moscow. After graduating from school in 1962, he entered the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1968, then studied biophysics, worked as a researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, defended his PhD thesis. His first song Sergey Nikitin wrote in December 1962 - on the poems of Joseph Utkin "On the road" ("Night and snow, and the way is far..."). While studying at Moscow
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Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin was born on March 8, 1944 in Moscow. After graduating from school in 1962, he entered the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1968, then studied biophysics, worked as a researcher at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, defended his PhD thesis. His first song Sergey Nikitin wrote in December 1962 - on the poems of Joseph Utkin "On the road" ("Night and snow, and the way is far..."). While studying at Moscow State University, he led a male quartet physicist, then a mixed quintet (Sergei Nikitin, Tatiana Nikitina, Vladimir Ulin, Nikolai Turkin, Carmen Santacrey Martin), in which he sang his future wife, then a sextet. In 1972, the collective led by Nikitin became the winner of the III International Festival of Political Song in Berlin. Since 1974, Tatiana and Sergey Nikitin began to sing as a duet and for a long time combined musical activity with scientific work. Since 1987, Sergey Nikitin worked for several years as the head of the musical part in the theater of Oleg Tabakov ("Tabakerka").
In total, by Sergey Nikitin's own admission, he created, including for cinema, television, theater, more than 300 songs: for poems by Russian and foreign poets - D. Sukharev, Y. Moritz, Y. Levitansky, B. Pasternak, V. Shakespeare, B. Okudzhava, G. Shpalikov, D. Samoilov and others, as well as for poems by graduates of the MSU Physics Department S. Krylov and V. Milyaev. The most popular songs of Sergei Nikitin: "Pony", "Rubber hedgehog", "When we were young", "Dialogue at the Christmas tree", "Alexander", "Take me through the Maidan", "Brich-Mulla", "To the music of Vivaldi". He created music for the songs sounding in the films "Moscow does not believe in tears", "Forgotten melody for flute", "Almost funny story", "Old New Year", to cartoons ("Big secret for a small company"), as well as many performances. For the creation and performance of songs in 1978 Sergey Nikitin was awarded the prize of the Moscow Komsomol in the field of literature and art, and in 1997 for many years of devotion to Russian poetry Sergey and Tatiana Nikitina also received one of the most honorable awards of the poetic world of Russia - Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize.