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Ludmila Georgievna Zykina
Людмила Зыкина
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10 June 1929 - 1 July 2009
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Lyudmila Zykina was born in Moscow on June 10, 1929 in a family of ordinary workers. During the war she worked as a turner at the factory. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. For hard work she was awarded the honorary title “Honored Ordzhonikidzovich”. After the war, Lyudmila was a nurse in a military clinical hospital, also worked as a seamstress in the Kashchenko hospital. The beginning of the creative biography of the legendary singer can be attributed to 1947, when she took part in the All-Russian competition
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Lyudmila Zykina was born in Moscow on June 10, 1929 in a family of ordinary workers. During the war she worked as a turner at the factory. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. For hard work she was awarded the honorary title “Honored Ordzhonikidzovich”. After the war, Lyudmila was a nurse in a military clinical hospital, also worked as a seamstress in the Kashchenko hospital. The beginning of the creative biography of the legendary singer can be attributed to 1947, when she took part in the All-Russian competition of young performers. After a successful performance, she was accepted into the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after Pyatnitsky.
In the choir she sang until 1960, then Zykina became a soloist of the Mosconcert. Lyudmila Zykina graduated from the Hippolyte Ivanov Music School in 1969, and in 1977 she successfully graduated from the Gnessin State Music and Pedagogical Institute. Zykina was popular not only in Russia. She was loved in the former Soviet Union. The title of “People’s Artist” Lyudmila Zykina was awarded in Azerbaijan, Udmurtia, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Mari El and Buryatia.
In 1963, Lyudmila Zykina became Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 1968 - People's Artist of the RSFSR, in 1973 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Lyudmila Zykina is an honorary professor of state universities in Orenburg, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and Moscow.
In 1977, Lyudmila Zykina organized the State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble “Russia”, actively conducted pedagogical activities. She taught at several institutes (the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and the Moscow State Institute of Culture). More than twenty concert films with Zykina were released on the screen:
To die of happiness and love. "Abduction", "When the song does not end", "All songs to visit", "You were also born in Russia", etc.
Lyudmila Zykina is the author of many books: “Song”, “My Volga flows”, “Lydia Ruslanova”, “At the crossroads of meetings” and others. Zykina wrote her last book, I Love You, in 2009, shortly before her death. The great singer, singer of Russian folk songs and romances died on July 1, 2009 from cardiac arrest. With military honors she was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Her grave is next to the grave of Galina Ulanova.