Anatoly Semyonovich Dneprov (Gross) (russian: Анатолий Семёнович Днепров, uk, Анатолій Семенович Дніпров,

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: ''Anatolii Semenovych Dniprov'') (1 April 1947 - 5 April 2008) was a

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and

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n singer, musician, composer and lyricist.

Biography

Anatoly Dneprov was born on April 1, 1947, in the city of

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to a Jewish couple. In 1963 he entered the Dnipropetrovsk Industrial Technical Institute and wanted to become a Master of Instrumentations and Measuring devices, but in 1964 he followed his musical destiny and entered the Dnipropetrovsk Musical Academy named after Glinka. From 1967 to 1970, he was in the Soviet army and was one of the head musicians in the Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the

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and

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based in

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. After the army he was a pianist in the

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band of the

pipe-rolling factory named after

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. In 1971 he graduated from the Musical Academy and moved to Moscow where he became one of the most famous Soviet pop composers of the 70s, selling almost 200 million albums with his music that was performed by various Soviet performers. From 1979 to 1987, he lived in New York and became a very popular singer in the

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community that was living abroad. In 1987 he moved back to Moscow and began touring all over the

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. He recorded many hits and filmed many videos and documentary films that were shown on

and Russian national Television. He received many awards and prizes in the Soviet Union and afterwards Russia for his achievements as a composer and singer. He is the author of such songs as ''Armenia'' (with

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), ''Helpline'', ''The Jewish Boy'', ''Russia'', ''A Glass of Nostalgia'', ''Ah, How Pity'' and many others. The lyrics to most of his songs were written by his wife Olga Pavlova, a famous Russian poet and radio host who has written lyrics for a lot of famous Russian artists, she is also the daughter of the famous Russian

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, concert administrator and director Pavel Leonidovich Leonidov (director to such artists as

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, the pop group

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and others), who died in 1984 in New York City. Leonidov was also a very famous Russian poet who wrote such songs as ''Zvezdi Na Lugu'', ''A More Spit'', ''Tselyi Mir'', ''Oka'', ''Vetochka Ryabiny'' and many others. Dneprov also wrote with the poet

Mikhail Tanich Mikhail Isaievich Tanich (Tankhilevich) (russian: Михаил Исаевич Танич) (September 15, 1923 – April 17, 2008) was a popular Russian song lyrics writer, a laureate of the Interior Ministry Award (1997), a laureate of the jubilee ...

the most famous Russian love song that is called '' Radovat'' (sometimes called ''Balovat'' or ''Vydumat''), the song is almost 30 years old but is still performed by famous Russian pop groups and singers to this day. Dneprov died on May 5, 2008, at about 11:45, aged 61. He died in a car (on the

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highway, 18 km from the city

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) going to his own concert in Rostov. He is survived by his wife Olga Pavlova (born 1952), his sons Filip and Pavel, his daughter Elena, granddaughter Anastasia and grandson Christian.Anatoly Dneprov
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References

External links

Official website
(songs, lyrics and photos)
''Radovat'' by Anatoly Dneprov
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