Viktor Vasilievich Afanasyev (russian: Виктор Васильевич Афанасьев; 17 May 1947 – 1 February 2020) was a Soviet and Russian military conductor. He was the Senior Director of the

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from 1993 to 2002.

Early life and career

In 1972, he graduated from the Military Conducting Department of the

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before beginning to teach classes at the Alma-Ata Conservatory 9 years later. He had previously served between 1979 and 1982 as the director of the Band of the

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, the Band of the

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, and the Band of the

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. Following the resignation of Major General Nikolay Mikhaylov in 1993, Afanasyev was immediately appointed as the chief director of the

, and the conductor of the combined massed bands of the

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. He served in this position until 2003, when he was replaced by Colonel

Valery Khalilov Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (; 30 January 1952 – 25 December 2016) was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Servic ...

. He then taught master classes at the Moscow Conservatory and had also served as dean of the orchestral faculty of the

Moscow State Art and Cultural University Moscow State Art and Cultural University (russian: Московский государственный университет культуры и искусств) is a Russian university, a vocational training center in the field of culture and a ...

. Afanasyev died in Moscow on 1 February 2020. He was buried in the

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on 5 February.

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