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Soviet singer-songwriters

  • Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
  • Bard (Soviet Union)In the early 1960s, a new label appeared in Soviet culture to describe singer-songwriters operating outside state control.
  • Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky entered the world on the 25th of January 1938 at the 3rd Meshchanskaya Street maternity hospital in Moscow.