Lesya Yaroslavskaya
Olesya (Lesya) Vladimirovna Yaroslavskaya (russian: Оле́ся (Ле́ся) Влади́мировна Яросла́вская; born 20 March 1981) is a Russian pop singer, lead singer of Viktor Drobysh's girls band :ru:Тутси (группа), Тootsie (2004–2012), author and performer of her own songs. Early life Yaroslavskaya was born in the closed city of Severomorsk, where her father worked as a military officer and her mother as a music teacher. Yaroslavskaya started performing from the age of four, when she sang the song ''Junk Letters'' in the local House of Culture. At the age of seven, she and her parents moved to Naro-Fominsk. There, she started studying piano. During her teen years, she regularly took part in music festivals, including in her birth town. After finishing her secondary school, Yaroslavskaya enrolled in the Moscow Regional College of Art, specialising in pop-jazz music. Subsequently, in 2001, she entered the Institute of Modern Art, where she com ...
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Severomorsk
Severomorsk (russian: Северомо́рск), known as Vayenga () until April 18, 1951, is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. The town is located on the coast of the Barents Sea along the Kola Bay northeast of Murmansk, the administrative centre of the oblast, to which it is connected by railway and a motorway. History Early settlement The first settlement on the site of the modern city arose between 1896 and 1897. It was named Vayenga (), after the river, the name of which itself comes from the Sami "vayongg", meaning "doe" or "reindeer". In 1917, only thirteen people lived in the settlement, who engaged in hunting, fishing and animal husbandry. The founding of the Northern Fleet Base In 1926, the Murmansk office of logging was founded, one of the artels of which was sent to Vayenga. A barracks, a dormitory, and a banya were built, and a telephone line was laid through the village. In 1933, t ...
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