Eduard Savelievich Kolmanovsky (russian: Эдуа́рд Саве́льевич Колмано́вский; 9 January 1923 – 27 July 1994) was a

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and

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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. He was awarded a

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

in 1984 and named a

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significan ...

in 1991. A large part of his songs are dedicated to the themes of patriotic consciousness and civic awareness. Among them are: ''I Love You, Life'' (1958), '' Do the Russians Want War?'' (1961), '' Alyosha'' (1966).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolmanovsky, Eduard 1923 births 1994 deaths People from Mogilev Belarusian Jews Soviet film score composers Male film score composers Russian male composers Russian male songwriters Recipients of the USSR State Prize People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the RSFSR 20th-century composers 20th-century classical musicians Soviet songwriters 20th-century Russian male musicians