January 01, 2003 Violist Extraordinaire Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this issue.On January 24, Russian viola player Yuri Bashmet turns 50. Born in Rostov-on-Don in 1953, Bashmet spent his childhood in Lvov, Ukraine, where he began studying music.
January 01, 2003 Stalin's Comedian January 10 is the centennial of the founder of the Soviet musical comedy, Grigory Alexandrov (his real surname was Mormonenko).
January 01, 2003 Father of the Atom This year marks the centenary of Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov, under whose guidance the first Soviet atomic bomb was created.
January 01, 2003 January and February in Russian History Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this issue.
November 01, 2002 The Shalyapin of Russian Soccer On December 1, legendary Russian soccer and hockey player Vsevolod Bobrov (1922-1979) would have turned 80. Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko called Bobrov “the Shalyapin of Russian soccer, and the Gagarin of the puck in Rus.’"
November 01, 2002 Enriching the Russian Language On November 22, 1887, Samuil Marshak was born. A poet, translator, playright, dramatist, literary critic and editor, Marshak was born in Voronezh and began writing poetry at a very early age.
November 01, 2002 A Leading Light of Russian Satire October 28 is the centenary of the illustrious actor of stage and screen, Erast Pavlovich Garin (1902-1980).
November 01, 2002 Eldar Ryazanov Eldar Ryazanov, the legendary film director and screenwriter, turns 75 on November 18. He began his filmmaking career in 1950 by making short subjects and documentaries.
November 01, 2002 Remarkable Political Actor Mikhail Ulyanov, one of Russia’s most famed actors, turns 75 on November 20. Born in the Siberian village of Tara, 400 km from Omsk, he ran off with a Ukrainian theater troupe in 1942, a year after his father had gone off to fight at the front.
November 01, 2002 Nostalgia for the Ideal November 20th is the 65th birthday (1937) of writer Viktoria Tokareva. Born in Leningrad, her first novel, Day Without Lies (1966) was hugely popular and all of her successive novels have been immediate best sellers.
November 01, 2002 November and December in Russian History Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this issue.
November 01, 2002 Enriching the Russian Language A biographical profile of poet, translator, playright, dramatist, literary critic and editor, Samuil Marshak.
