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| Lev Oshanin | |
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 Oshanin in 1981 | |
| Born | Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (1912-05-30)30 May 1912 Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 30 December 1996(1996-12-30) (aged 84) Moscow, Russia |
| Resting place | Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow |
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Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (Russian: Лев Ива́нович Оша́нин; 30 May 1912 – 30 December 1996) was a Soviet poet, songwriter, author of over 70 books of poetry, novels and poetry plays, winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950) and winner of the World Festival of Youth and Students.
Creativity
Lev Oshanin is one of the most popular and officially recognized songwriters of the Soviet era, with many of his verses and poems being set to music and widely used by Soviet forces during WWII. The song “Roads" became popular; “Song of Troubled Youth” performed by Yuri Gulyaev, “The Volga River Flows ” performed by Vladimir Troshin and Lyudmila Zykina, and the cycle “And there is a girl in our yard alone” performed by Joseph Kobzon also gained enormous popularity and Maya Kristalinskaya, “Solar Circle” (“Let there always be sunshine”), “Why did you call me?”, “Oh, Natasha,” “People in white coats,” “I’m just working as a magician.” The song based on the verses “Sunny Circle” (composer - Arkady Ostrovsky), performed by Tamara Miansarova, won at the Polish song festival in Sopot in 1963.
References
- "Авторы и исполнители: Лев Ошанин". SovMusic.ru. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- Пусть всегда буду я
- ЧАЙКА, Лара (17 August 2012). "Исполнилось 100 лет со дня рождения знаменитого советского поэта-песенника". AiF (in Russian). Retrieved 12 April 2024.
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- 1912 births
- 1996 deaths
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- 20th-century Russian poets
- People from Rybinsk
- People from Yaroslavl Governorate
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Russian-language poets
- Socialist realism writers
- Russian lyricists
- Russian male poets
- Russian male songwriters
- Russian war correspondents
- Soviet male poets
- Soviet male writers
- Soviet people of World War II
- Soviet songwriters
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- Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery