May 01, 2002 Russian Calendar In depth profiles of Valery Brumel, Valery Todorovsky, Andrei Bitov, Mitrofan Grekov, Alexander Kalyagin and Robert Rozhdestvensky
May 01, 2002 High Jumping Legendary athlete Valery Brumel, Olympic high jump champion, will be 60 on May 14. Brumel won the gold in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with an Olympic record—2.18 meters.
March 01, 2002 Two Great Writers Two great modern Russian writers turn 65 in March: Vladimir Makanin celebrates his birthday on the 13th, Valentin Rasputin on the 15th.
March 01, 2002 No Space for an Apple to Fall Pianist Stanislav Neygauz (1927-1980) was born on March 8, seventy-five years ago. Relatives of the musician recall how a young Neygauz would play for up to 12 hours, until his fingers would bleed, so inspired and obsessed was he with his music.
March 01, 2002 World Citizen Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich (1927) turns 75 on March 27. Born in Baku (capital of Azerbaidzhan), Rostropovich took his first music lessons from his father—a teacher at the Baku Conservatory.
March 01, 2002 "Time Will Show" April 4th would have been the 70th birthday of Russia’s best-known contemporary film director, Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986).
March 01, 2002 Perfect, Unexpected Rhymes April 10 is poet Bella Akhmadulina’s 65th birthday (born 1937). A graduate of the Literary Institute (1960), Akhmadulina belongs to the shestidesyatniki (“60s”)—those Russian poets whose stars rose in the 1960s.
March 01, 2002 Calendar Includes extended stories on Vladimir Makanin, Valentin Rasputin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stanislav Neygauz, Bella Akhmadulina and Andrei Tarkovsky.
November 01, 2001 Historical Events in November and December Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this winter's issue.
September 01, 2001 Historical Events in September and October Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this fall's issue.
July 01, 2001 Historical Events in July and August Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this summer's issue.
May 01, 2001 Historical Events in May and June Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this issue.
