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People's Artists of the USSR

  • Eldar RyazanovEldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov entered the world on the 18th of November 1927 in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, worked as a diplomat…
  • Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
  • Georgy SviridovGeorgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born on the 16th of December 1915 in the town of Fatezh. His father, a Bolshevik sympathizer named Vasily, died when Georgy…
  • Alla PugachevaOn the 15th of April 1949, a girl named Alla Borisovna Pugacheva was born in Moscow. Her parents were Boris Mikhailovich Pugachyov and Zinaida Arkhipovna…
  • Leonid GaidaiOn the 30th of January 1923, Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born in Svobodny, a town in the Amur Oblast. His father had been sentenced to hard labor for…