Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (russian: Ирина Михайловна Ельчева; 28 November 1926 – 8 May 2013) was a Russian composer. She studied at Mussorgsky College and the Leningrad Conservatory. She collected

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s and completed the opera ''Spartak'' in 1962. Elcheva died in St. Petersburg on 8 May 2013, at the age of 86.

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