Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin ( rus, Вячесла́в Григо́рьевич Добры́нин, born Antonov/Анто́новDobrynin's interview for the Trud newspaper, 2005
/ref> on January 25, 1946, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as ''Doctor Shlyager''. He was awarded the

People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an h ...

in 1996.' «Моя настоящая фамилия Антонов. Петросян — это по отцу»
/ref> Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an

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father and a Russian mother. He never bore his father's surname of Petrosian – his father left the family before he was born and he used his mother's surname Antonov throughout his childhood, changing it to Dobrynin in 1972. He studied at

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 ...

and received a diploma as an "art historian and theorist" in 1970. He subsequently worked at the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

and Pushkin Museum. As an amateur musician and singer he participated in different Beatles-style groups. Dobrynin started to compose songs in the late-1960s and from 1971 co-operated with the Oleg Lundstrem orchestra, " Vesyolye Rebyata", " Samotsvety" and other bands. He has written more than 1000 songs, often based on poems by

Leonid Derbenyov Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov ( rus, Леони́д Петро́вич Дербенёв, p=lʲɪɐˈnʲit pʲɪˈtrovʲɪdʑ dʲɪrbʲɪˈnʲɵf, a=Lyeonid Pyetrovich Dyerbyenyov.ru.vorb.oga; 12 April 1931 – 22 June 1995) was a Russian poet and l ...

Robert Rozhdestvensky Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (russian: Ро́берт Ива́нович Рожде́ственский; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and Songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during ...

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 ...

and Ilya Reznik. In 1998, Dobrynin got a star on the Star Square in Moscow. In the 1980s Dobrynin started to record his own songs, and in 1990 he founded "Doctor Shlyager" band. Dobrynin's songs are mostly dedicated to unhappy love and romantic events of a person's life. Among his most popular hits are: * ''Vsyo, chto v zhizni yest u menya'' * ''Rodnaya zemlya'' * ''Ne syp mne sol na ranu'' * ''Gde je ty byla'' * ''Kachaetsya vagon'' * ''Siniy tuman'' * ''Dve svechi'' * ''Belaya cheryomukha'' * ''Na teplohode muzika igraet'' * ''Luitza muzica'' * ''Ne volnuites tetia'' * ''Kapitan Zapasa'' * ''Yagoda Malina'' * ''Babushki-starushki'' * ''Koldovskoe ozero'' * ''Cazino'' * ''Ti mne ne snishsia'' * ''Tak Vot Kakaya Ti'' * ''Ti razbila moe serdce'' * ''Kto Tebe Skazal'' * ''Ya bous tvoey lubvi'' * ''Ni minuty pokoya'' * ''Ne zabivaite druzei'' * ''Napishi mne pismo'' * ''Pikovaya dama'' * ''Ya toskuyu po tebe'' * ''Ya svoe otgulyal'' * ''Nikto tebya ne lyubit tak kak ya'' * ''Sumashedshiy dozd'' * ''Do Chego Ya Nevezuchiy'' * ''Nezhnaya'' * ''Nezabudka'' * ''Proshay ''

Awards

Lenin Komsomol Prize Lenin Komsomol Prize () was a Soviet annual award for the best works in science, engineering, literature or art carried out by young authors of age not exceeding 33 years. Komsomol was the abbreviated name of The Communist Union of Youth (Russia ...

, *15-times winner of Song of the Year Russia, *

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prize (1991, "best composer" nomination). *

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IV degree (January 30, 2006)'

References

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