Tatyana Khashimovna Nikitina (russian: Татьяна Хашимовна Никитина, born 31 December 1945) is a prominent

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. She usually performs together with her husband, Sergey Nikitin.

Biography

She was born Tatiana Sadykova in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...

(currently

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) on December 31, 1945. In 1971, she graduated from the Department of Physics of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. In 1968, she began singing in a quintet led by her husband, Sergey Nikitin. They worked together as

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(both have Ph.D.s in Physics) as well as singers, creating many popular songs. Together they recorded more than 15 CDs and Vinyls (see

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). In 1990, she abandoned her research work to become the Manager for Culture of the October District ''

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, then became Deputy

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of the Central District of

, and in 1992–1995 she was a deputy to the ''Minister for Culture of Russia''. From 1998 to 2012, she worked as a manager at ''Kartina'', an Italo-Swiss firm that organized art exhibitions. She and her husband Sergei are very close friends with and, beginning in 2002, the three of them provided funding to improve the

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Special School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Children (russian: Смоленская специальная школа для слепых и слабовидящих детей).

References

External links

Biography of Tatiana and Sergey NikitinsBiography of Tatiana Nikitina
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