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Brodyaga
"Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya" ( rus, По диким степям Забайкалья, t=By the wild Steppes of the Transbaikalia) is a Russian folk song, also known as "Brodyaga" ( rus, Бродяга, t=tramp, vagabond). It was published and recorded at the beginning of the 20th century and has since become part of the repertoire of various Russian and foreign artists. History According to popular belief, the song was composed by convicts in Siberia towards the end of the 19th century. The revolutionary Ivan Belokonsky insisted, though, that it was known in Siberia in the 1880s, but there was no indication of the author of the lyrics. According to Ivan Nazarov (and Alexander Smolik), Ivan Kondratyev was the author of the lyrics, although the poem is not included in the latter's last published volume of poems, ''Under the noise of the Oak Groves''. In 1906, Swedish composer Wilhelm Harteveld also collected the song during his trip to Siberia and published it in 1908. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballad Of Siberia
''The Ballad of Siberia'' (in ), also known as ''Symphony of Life'', produced by Mosfilm and released in 1948, was the Soviet Union's second color film (after ''The Stone Flower''). It was directed by Ivan Pyryev and starred Vladimir Druzhnikov and Marina Ladynina. It is a Soviet style musical movie, full of songs, such as "The Wanderer", describing the development of Siberia after World War II. Synopsis Pianist Andrei Balashov (Vladimir Druzhnikov) after being wounded at the front during the Great Patriotic War loses the opportunity to earnestly pursue music due to a hand injury. Without saying goodbye to his friends and his beloved Natasha (Marina Ladynina), he goes to Siberia. He works on the construction of a plant, and in the evenings sings in a teahouse. By chance, weather conditions force the plane with Andrey's friends, Boris Olenich (Vladimir Zeldin) and Natasha, who are flying to a competition abroad, to land at the airport near the building of the plant. Andrey meets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zura Pirveli
Zura or Zur'a may refer to: People with the given name Zura * Zura Barayeva (died 2002), a Chechen participant in the Moscow theater hostage crisis * Zura Begum, a Union of Burma legislator and member of the Burmese parliament in the 1950s * Zura Bitiyeva (1948–2003), a Chechen human rights activist, assassinated in 2003 * Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018), a Rwandan humanitarian * Zura Tkemaladze (born 2000), a Georgian tennis player People with the surname Zura * Abu Zurʽa al-Razi (died 878), an Iranian Muslim scholar * Edmundo Zura (born 1983), an Ecuadorian footballer * Ibn Zur'a (943–1008), a philosopher in Baghdad Other uses * Zura, Afghanistan, a village in Balkh Province * Zura, a language related to the Enya language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Moḩammad Zūrā, a village in Iran * ''Ercheia zura'', also known as '' Ercheia diversipennis'', a species of moth See also * Zuras Zuras is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zivan Saramandic
Zione ( fa, زيوان, also Romanized as Zīvān) is a village in , Fashapuyeh District, Ray County, Tehran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 693, in 171 families. References Populated places in Ray County, Iran {{Rey-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Gadowski
Artur Gadowski (born 1 June 1967) is a Polish musician, vocalist of a rock band IRA. Biography Gadowski comes from a musical family. His father played the saxophone whereas his mother was a vocal instructor. His life's turning point happened in 1979 when he first heard The Beatles' album titled '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', which formed his musical style for a long time afterwards. Beginnings and career with IRA In 1985, he established his first amateur music band together with his schoolmates, ''Kurcze blade'', dissolved after merely a year. Then in 1986 he co-founded another band, ''Landrynki dla dziewczynki'', in which Gadowski initially played the guitar but he later replaced the vocalist of the group who had been called up. The band gave many concerts at that time stirring up an interest, but they did not manage to qualify for the Jarocin Festival. During the band's performance in a club in Radom, Gadowski along with his group were spotted by Kuba Płucisz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Ładysz
Bernard Ładysz (24 July 192225 July 2020) was a Polish bass-baritone and actor. He performed internationally at major opera houses and festivals, known for the title roles of Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' and Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov''. His recordings include ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' alongside Maria Callas. He took part in the world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's opera '' The Devils of Loudon'' at the Hamburg State Opera and the bass solo in his '' St Luke Passion'' at the Salzburg Festival. As an actor, he played in several films such as '' The Promised Land'' in 1974. Life Born in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), Ładysz began to study voice in Wilno in 1940. The following year, he became a sergeant of the Polish Home Army, who took part in the 1944 Operation Tempest. When Wilno was taken by the Red Army, he, among many others, was conscripted to military under the condition of giving an oath to the Soviet Union. Those who refused were sent to various Gulag labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czesław Niemen
Czesław Niemen (; February 16, 1939 – January 17, 2004), born Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki, and often credited as just Niemen, was one of the most important and original Polish singer-songwriters and rock balladeers of the 20th century, singing mainly in Polish. Biography Early life Niemen was born in Stare Wasiliszki in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic (now in the Grodno Region of Belarus). Czesław Niemen belonged to a community of Belarusians and Poles, living outside the eastern borders of contemporary Poland, on the eastern lands of the historical Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (called 'Kresy' – 'borderlands' – in Polish). Czesław Niemen studied in Grodno at " State college. In the dawn of World War II these ethnic Polish lands were annexed by the Soviet Union, when Poland was split due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and became a part of the Belorussian SSR, which was affirmed by Europe's post-war reorganization performed during the Yal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Leshchenko
Pyotr Konstantinovich Leshchenko (russian: Пётр Константинович Лещенко; 2 June 189816 July 1954), a singer in the Russian Empire, and later Romania, is universally considered "the King of Russian Tango" and specifically known for his rendition of "Serdtse (song), Serdtse"—a tango, sung unusually not in Spanish language, Spanish but in Russian language, Russian. Biography He was born in the village of Isayevo, Kherson Governorate (now part of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine) into a poor and illiterate Ukrainian peasant family. During the World War I, First World War, his mother and stepfather moved to Chișinău (Bessarabia Governorate), which was later united with Romania (today's Moldova). He was drafted into the Russian army, and attended an officers college in Kiev. After graduating he was sent to the front, and was wounded soon thereafter, recuperating at a military hospital in Chișinău. He was proficient in numerous languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
