Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov ( ru , Николай Николаевич Крюков; 2 February 1908 – 5 April 1961) was a Russian

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 ...

active in the

Soviet era The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are synonymous in everyday speech (either acknowledging the dominance ...

. Kryukov was prominent in the Soviet film industry, with more than 40

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

credits for films released between 1949 and 1962. His name is attached to the score provided for a 1950 release of Eisenstein's film ''

The Battleship Potemkin '' Battleship Potemkin'' (russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», ''Bronenosets Potyomkin''), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by S ...

'' (1925).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kryukov, Nikolai Nikolayevich Russian film score composers Male film score composers 1908 births 1961 deaths 20th-century composers 20th-century Russian male musicians 1961 suicides Suicides in the Soviet Union