Did Zykina have children? Why did the personal life of Lyudmila Zykina not work out?
Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina. Born June 10, 1929 in Moscow - died July 1, 2009 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian singer. People's Artist of the USSR (1973).
Mother - Ekaterina Vasilievna (1902-1950) worked as a nurse in a military hospital.
Father - Georgy Petrovich Zykin (1899-1956) a worker.
In addition to Lyudmila, the family also had a brother, Alexander.
The artist told about her childhood: “My mother was always busy, she worked two shifts. Dad also worked a lot. I belonged to the street. And all our children grew up like that. I had to sleep there during the day, but I couldn’t, and told my mother that if you take me there again, I’ll run away, otherwise I’ll be near the house. house, in the forest. This is the children's department of the Kanatchikovo dacha, a wonderful place there. Therefore, my mother was not afraid for me.
The upbringing in the family was free. When the parents of my friends turned to my mother: why do you greet them all the time, do you already have a small room? - Mom said: come on, let them be better before my eyes, well, once again I will wash the floor. My mother was a very kind person, hospitable even during the war years. She always warmly treated my girlfriends and friends. She tried to make everyone who came to me drink tea, give some kind of pie, pancake.
Mom tried to make me very economic. I had chickens on me, I had to feed the chickens, chop the eggs, pick the herbs. From a very young age, I was instilled with a love for animals. We always had three pigs, then a cow appeared, a bull, there were a lot of chickens, ducks, turkeys. I learned this work early. The war had just begun, and my mother said: in the fall, we need to make a garden so that in the spring it will already be. I remember uprooting stumps, removing stones. It was hard, I was only 12 years old, and I wanted to take a walk, and my mother said: you’ll make this piece and go for a walk. Mom taught Pen to sew, knit, embroider, cook, especially borscht. She trusted me with everything.
I had more different instruments: guitar, balalaika, domra, drums. This I loved very much. In addition, she loved cycling. I began to ride early, almost immediately on a big bike, then I rode a motorcycle - my father was given a BMW for his work before the war. I was used to technology. I love the car. When I started working, I had a dream to buy a car. And I bought the Moskvich first, then the Volga.
During the Great Patriotic War, she worked as a turner at the Moscow Machine-Tool Plant. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. She was awarded the honorary title "Honored Ordzhonikidzovets".
After the war, she worked as a nurse in a military clinical hospital near Moscow, and then as a seamstress in the Kashchenko hospital. At the same time, by his own admission, the cherished dream of both Lyudmila herself and her father was to become a pilot.
Her creative biography began in 1947 with participation in the All-Russian Competition for Young Performers, after which she was accepted into the State Academic Russian Folk Choir. M. E. Pyatnitsky. The competition during the admission reached 1500 people per place, at the end the commission selected four: three boys and one girl - Lyudmila.
She managed to get acquainted with Stalin when she sang in the Pyatnitsky choir. Once, after a concert in the Kremlin, the Supreme Commander decided to take a picture with his favorite ensemble and accidentally stood next to the young soloist Zykina.
In 1950, Zykina's mother died and the singer lost her voice for one year. Then she was able to recover.
In 1957, Zykina became a laureate of the Sixth Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, and in 1960 - the winner of the All-Russian Competition of Variety Artists.
Since 1960, Lyudmila Zykina has been a soloist of the Mosconcert.
In 1968, L. G. Zykina performed the vocal part in Poetoria by Rodion Shchedrin.
In 1969 she graduated from the Moscow Musical College. M. Ippolitova-Ivanova (class of Elena Konstantinovna Gedevanova), and in 1977 - the Gnessin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute.
Lyudmila Zykina was on good terms with Brezhnev and Khrushchev. But with the Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, they loved to go to the bathhouse in the same company. It so happened that in the evening, on the eve of the death of the minister, they also steamed together in a Russian bath. Zykina went home to prepare for a trip to Gorky, and Furtseva went to a banquet on the occasion of the anniversary of the Maly Theater. At night, the minister called Zykina and asked her to be careful on the road, her voice was sad and sad. The next day, early in the morning, Lyudmila Georgievna left by car for Gorky, and in the afternoon she was informed of the death of her friend. Zykina immediately returned to Moscow.
In addition to Russia, Zykina was popular in all the republics of the USSR and in many countries of the world. In 1972, Heydar Aliyev, who was then the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, congratulated the famous singer on the title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Lyudmila Zykina - Thin rowan
Lyudmila Zykina - Orenburg downy shawl
In 1977, Zykina created the State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble "Russia". Conducted pedagogical activity - taught at the Moscow State Institute of Culture, at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
In 1989, the USSR State Committee for Public Education awarded Zykina the academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of Folk Choir. It was noted that many of her students became laureates of international and Russian competitions, honored artists and teachers. She herself was often invited to the jury of festivals and competitions at various levels both domestically and abroad.
In 1991, Lyudmila Zykina, along with a number of politicians and cultural figures, signed the "Word to the People" - an appeal published in the newspaper "Soviet Russia", criticizing the course of Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
In 2006, she took part in the preparation for the publication of the second book in the Autograph of the Century series. For six months, the singer signed 250 sheets with her reprinted appeal to future generations.
Lyudmila Zykina - The Volga flows
Lyudmila Zykina's voice is full-sounding, soft and timbral mezzo-soprano. Throughout her life, she adhered to the folk Russian style of singing, first choral, then solo. It should be noted that it was not so much Russian folk songs that brought Zykina national fame, but Soviet songs stylized as folk songs of small villages and working outskirts, written by composers Mark Fradkin, Grigory Ponomarenko, Alexander Averkin, Viktor Temnov and Nikolai Polikarpov, who wrote the first solo songs for Zykina to the verses by Alexander Gadalov "Kari's eyes blinked at me" and "I could not sleep during the long night."
Lyudmila Zykina's repertoire included more than 2,000 Russian folk songs, works by contemporary composers, Russian romances, as well as songs from the peoples of the world. Duets have been recorded with Julian, Mark Almond, Nikolai Rastorguev, Mikhail Kizin. In 1968, L. G. Zykina performed the vocal part in Poetoria by Rodion Shchedrin. In the anniversary year of 1970, she took part in the performance of another work by Rodion Shchedrin - the oratorio "Lenin in the heart of the people." This work was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In addition, over the years, Lyudmila Zykina created thematic concert programs: “To you, woman”, “To you, veterans”, “An evening of Russian songs and romance”, “Russian folk songs”, “Dedicated to heroes of space”, “Only you could , my Russia” and a number of others.
During her creative career, Lyudmila Zykina went on tour in 92 countries around the world.
Illness and death of Lyudmila Zykina
The artist suffered from diabetes for a long time and seriously, in 2007 she underwent a difficult operation to implant the hip joint. Nevertheless, on June 10, 2009, that is, 21 days before her death, the singer celebrated her 80th birthday, to which many famous Russians came to her.
On July 1, 2009, she died in Moscow at the age of 80 from heart failure. A few days before her death, Lyudmila Zykina suffered a heart attack.
Farewell to Lyudmila Zykina took place on July 3, 2009 at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. The funeral service took place on July 4, 2009 at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. With military honors, the singer was buried on July 4, 2009 at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow next to the grave of Galina Ulanova.
On July 1, 2012, a monument to Lyudmila Zykina was unveiled at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Authors F. Sogoyan and M. Sogoyan.
On May 20, 1999, the Government of the Russian Federation issued a decree on the transfer of the Lyudmila Zykina diamond weighing 55.02 carats, which is in the State Fund of Russia, to the Diamond Fund of the Russian Federation.
In 2006, the Krasnodar Conservatory was named after Lyudmila Zykina.
An asteroid (4879 Zykina) is named after Zykina.
Mystical secrets of Lyudmila Zykina
The growth of Lyudmila Zykina: 167 centimeters.
Personal life of Lyudmila Zykina:
She was married four times.
She married for the first time at the age of 22 for an engineer of the Likhachev Automobile Plant - Vladlen Pozdnov. But the marriage did not last long. On tour in India, she was predicted to soon part with her husband, and after the prediction, Zykina really found out that her husband had been living with another for six months. The singer suffered a betrayal very painfully.
The second husband of the singer was the photojournalist of the magazine "Soviet Warrior" Yevgeny Svalov, whom she met by chance on a tram. A few months after the first meeting, the lovers got married. However, family life did not work out.
The third spouse is a teacher of foreign languages, translator and journalist Vladimir Petrovich Kotelkin. Divorced because of her husband's infidelity.
She lived with her fourth husband, Viktor Fedorovich Gridin, for 17 years. After many years of civil marriage, Gridin started an affair with the chorus girl Nadezhda Krygina.
Lyudmila Zykina had no children. The singer herself said in this regard that she wanted to have children, but she always believed that a child is a person who requires great attention, which she could not give due to constant touring.
Shortly before her death, Zykina admitted at her press conference that she was in a relationship with a singer who was 40 years her junior.
Another lover of Zykina was Viktor Konstantinov, a psychotherapist and psychic, also twice as young as the singer. According to Zykina's friend Tatyana Gavrilova, the star was going to marry him and promised to help open a clinic. But after the sudden death of Zykina, he also died suddenly.
Jewelery collection by Lyudmila Zykina:
On March 3, 2012, the singer's heir, nephew Sergei Zykin, put up for auction through the Gelos auction house jewelry belonging to Lyudmila Zykina. The lower estimate of the presented 25 pieces of jewelry amounted to 11 million rubles, and the total sales amount exceeded 31 million rubles.
It is known about some jewelry from the Zykina collection, which were previously put up for auction:
1. Gold brooch "Basket", set with 115 natural diamonds and seven baguette-cut blue sapphires in the form of a track. Presumably Western Europe, second third of the 20th century. Price - 10 thousand dollars.
2. Set: pendant and earrings with natural emeralds, diamonds and rose-cut diamonds. A piece of gold and silver. The jewelry contains cabochon-cut emeralds, unique in size. Presumably India, third quarter of the 20th century. Price - 200 thousand dollars.
3. Set with diamonds and garnets (demantoids). Gold product. Bracelet and earrings with hot enamel. The product is made to order, it schematically presents cornflowers - Zykina's favorite flowers. Presumably Russia, second half of the 20th century. Price: from 20 thousand dollars.
4. Brooch-transformer made of gold with a picturesque insert, decorated with hot enamel. Insert with the image of Empress Sisi (Elizabeth of Austria), encrusted with faceted inserts. Price - 20 thousand dollars.
5. Antique gold transformer brooch with openwork flower-shaped ornament and 56 natural rose-cut diamonds. Russia, 1871. The brooch has never been restored, it has its original appearance, which increases its value. Price - 25 thousand dollars.
6. Earrings to the previous set with a brooch. Gold. 60 diamonds and rose-cut diamonds. Russia, 1871. A unique example of jewelry art of the late 19th century. Price - 15 thousand dollars.
7. Necklace made in white and yellow gold with 127 natural diamonds. Presented as a gift to the singer by the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev. Price - 400 thousand dollars.
8. Original gold earrings with natural diamonds. One natural antique cushion cut diamond. Price - 70 thousand dollars.
“You see, external beauty is not necessary, you need to be internally beautiful. For the soul to sing, the heart to be kind, sympathetic. Probably, people are loved for this too. In my life I have never caused grief to anyone. it turned out. Better for yourself than for anyone, "the singer said in a recent interview.
Filmography of Lyudmila Zykina:
1961 - “Lyudmila Zykina sings”
1964 - “The Honored Artist of the RSFSR Lyudmila Zykina sings”
1964 - "When the song does not end" - concert film
1969 - "Abduction" - concert film
1978 - "At the concert of Lyudmila Zykina" - concert film
1983 - "Sing to all generations!" - concert film
1983 - "Listen if you want ..." - concert film
1985 - "Song to the Fighter" - concert film
1985 - "All songs to visit"
1985 - “You were also born in Russia” - concert film
1986 - "Only a voice"
1986 - "A dream of love, a beautiful dream" - concert film
1997 - "Ten songs about Moscow" - concert film
Bibliography of Lyudmila Zykina:
1975 - Song
1984 - At the crossroads of meetings
1988 - At the crossroads of meetings: Essays
1998 - My Volga is flowing ...
2009 - I love you
Lyudmila Zykina songs:
“And the years fly by” (Mark Fradkin - Evgeny Dolmatovsky);
“And the eyes keep looking at the road” (Alexey Ekimyan - F. Laube);
“And the forest is mysterious” (Vladimir Shainsky - V. Feldman);
“But love is still alive” (Alexey Ekimyan - Viktor Bokov);
“And he is nobody’s” (Viktor Temnov - Oleg Abramov);
“And there is my Russia in the distance” (Seraphim Tulikov - Vladimir Kharitonov);
“But I only now understand” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Olga Berggolts);
"And I am in the meadow" (Russian folk song);
Mother's Arioso (Anatoly Novikov - Georgy Rublev);
"Autumn Asters" (Nikolai Kharito - S. Grey);
“Ah, I skipped all night” (Russian folk song);
“Ah, long are you the night” (Russian folk song);
“Oh, if the earth could speak” (Yuri Martynov - Oleg Milyavsky);
“Ah, frost, frost” (Alexander Dubuc - I. Vanenko (I. And Bashmakov);
"Oh you, Vanka" (Russian folk song);
"The Ballad of the Commissar's Death" (Georgy Sviridov - Alexander Prokofiev);
"The Ballad of the Mother" or "She dreamed that she was Russia" (Mikhail Chistov - Lyudmila Tatyanicheva);
"The Ballad of the Saved Bread" (Mark Fradkin - V. Shtormov);
"River Runs" (Eduard Kolmanovsky - Evgeny Yevtushenko);
"Beketovka (Somewhere near Beketovka)" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - G. Kireev);
"White Snow" (Vladimir Zakharov - P. Kazmin);
“Belilits, you are my blushes” (music - Russian folk in the arr. Sergei Rachmaninov, words - Russian folk);
“Fragrant clusters of white acacia” (A. Pugachev);
"Birch" (Nikolai Kutuzov - Sergei Yesenin);
"Birch" (E. Dreizen - Alexander Bezymensky);
"Birches of Russia";
"Insomnia" (N. Polikarpov - G. Kuryankova);
“There will be a rainbow” (Evgeny Zharkovsky - V. Lazarev);
"On Patrol" (Alexander Morozov - Yuri Martsinkevich);
"In the park near Mamaev Kurgan" (Yan Frenkel - Inna Goff);
"Waltz of front-line girlfriends" (Viktor Temnov - P. Chernyaev);
"Vanya" (Eduard Kolmanovsky - Igor Shaferan);
"Widow's Lament" (Russian folk song);
"Come back" (Boris Prozorovsky - V. Lensky);
"Loyalty" (Evgeny Ptichkin - G. Georgiev);
"Veterans" (Vano Muradeli - Sergey Smirnov);
"Rowan branch" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
"Evening to me girl" (Russian folk song);
"Late evening from the forest" (Russian folk song);
"Down the Volga River" (Alexander Varlamov - Alexander Shakhovskoy);
“In the green in the oak forest” (N. Polikarpov - Viktor Bokov);
“The water in the well is cold” (Russian folk song);
“Near three roads” (Roman Mayorov - Mikhail Ryabinin);
“The Volga has become a sea” (Vano Muradeli - Alexander Zharov);
"Volzhanka" (Yuri Slonov - Anton Alien);
"Volga suffering" (Russian folk song);
"Eighteen Years" (October Grishin - Vladimir Zastrozhny);
“Here the postal troika is rushing” (Russian folk song);
“Here is a daring troika rushing” (Alexey Verstovsky - Fedor Glinka);
“Everything that was” (Eduard Kolmanovsky - I. Gritskova);
“I got up at dawn” (Russian folk song);
“You serve, we will wait for you” (Eduard Kolmanovsky - Konstantin Vanshenkin);
"Blizzard" (Seraphim Tulikov - Olga Fadeeva);
"Where are you, where are you, father's house" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Sergei Yesenin);
“Where the bread is noisy” (Nikolai Kutuzov - E. Karasyov);
"My mother's eyes" (Viktor Temnov - O. Levitsky);
"Speak about Russia" (Yuri Levitin - Viktor Bokov);
"They say I'm mischievous";
Ice (Vladimir Shainsky - Mikhail Plyatskovsky);
"Sunsets are burning" (Viktor Temnov - Oleg Milyavsky);
"Mushrooms-mushrooms" (Viktor Temnov - P. Chernyaev);
“The mountain ash is sad in a Russian song” (Viktor Temnov);
"Sad Willows" (Matvey Blanter - Alexander Zharov);
"Girl's Thought" (Russian folk song);
"Girl, remember me" (Oscar Sandler - B. Turovsky);
"My rural childhood" (Evgeny Ptichkin - Mikhail Plyatskovsky);
“Winter Path” (Alexander Averkin - Nikolai Palkin);
"Daughter" (Eduard Kolmanovsky - Nikolai Dorizo);
“She dreamed that she was Russia” or “The Ballad of a Mother” (Mikhail Chistov - Lyudmila Tatyanicheva);
"Yenisei" (Grigory Ponomarenko - Inna Kashezheva);
"Esaul" (Oleg Gazmanov);
“I pity you” (Alexey Ekimyan - Felix Laube);
“Do not interfere with waiting for a soldier” (N. Polikarpov - I. Shamov);
"Wait for me" (Matvey Blanter - Konstantin Simonov);
“Waiting for you” (Alexander Averkin - I. Dremov);
"The Sailor's Wife" (Y. Mosharsky - V. Yantovsky);
"Zhenya" (Evgeny Zharkovsky - Konstantin Vanshenkin);
“There lived a girl on earth” (Andrey Babaev - Vladimir Kharitonov);
"Cranes flew" (Valentin Levashov - M. Andronov);
"The Treasured Stone (Stone of Sevastopol)" (Boris Mokrousov - Alexander Zharov);
“The sun has set” (Arkady Ostrovsky - S. Rytikov) with Lyubov Lazareva;
“I sat alone (A snow-white cherry blossomed at the window)” (Mikhail Chumakov - Veniamin Burygin);
“There is little light outside the window” (Eduard Kolmanovsky - Konstantin Vanshenkin);
“Why did you call me” (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Lev Oshanin);
“Why are you bothering me” (Alexander Averkin);
"Asterisk" (E. Kuznetsov - A. Shulga);
"Stars of Russia" (Mark Fradkin - P. Leonidov);
“Toward the Stars” (A. Novikov - V. Kharitonov);
"My Land" (Vadim Gamalia - A. Tesarova);
"Winter Road" (V. Baranov - Alexander Pushkin);
"Winter Path" (Alexander Averkin - Nikolai Palkin);
"Winter" (Valentin Levashov - V. Semernin);
"Goldfish" (Murad Kazhlaev - Vladimir Portnov);
"Ivushka" (Grigory Ponomarenko - Vasily Alferov);
“The battalions are coming” (Yuri Saulsky - V. Sergeev);
“From under a pebble” (music - Russian folk in the arr. Anatoly Sobolev, words - Russian folk);
“If there were golden wings” (Nikolai Kutuzov - Gennady Georgiev);
"Quadrile ditties" (Alexander Averkin - D. Martynov);
“How Yura saw us off on a flight” (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
“How can I not love this land” (Valentin Levashov - V. Lazarev);
"Some early in the morning" (Russian folk song);
"Like a month" (Russian folk song);
“The Cossack went to war” (Tikhon Khrennikov - Viktor Gusev);
Kalina in the Rye (Alexander Bilash - Vladimir Fedorov);
"Kalina" (Sigismund Katz - Anatoly Sofronov);
"Kalinka" (Russian folk song);
"Kalinushka with a raspberry" (Russian folk song);
"Kari eyes" (Russian folk song);
“Kari eyes blinked at me” (Alexander Gadalov - N. Polikarpov);
Karolinka (Polish folk song);
"Kyiv - the Red Sun" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
"Pouch" (Anatoly Lepin - V. Alekhin);
"Ring" (N. Bakhmetiev - folk song);
"Commander's Order" (Vano Muradeli - Sergey Smirnov);
"Bonfire on the hill" (Alexander Averkin - L. Kondyrev);
“Maple (Where the maple makes noise)” (Leonty Shishko - Leonty Shishko);
"Bonfire on the Hill" (Alexander Averkin - Lev Kondyrev);
"Red Sun" (Pavel Aedonitsky - Igor Shaferan);
"Red Sundress" (Alexander Varlamov - Nikolai Tsyganov);
“Your beauty” (Evgeny Ptichkin - V. Butenko);
"Rakitov Bush Circle" (Russian folk song);
“Who dares to say” (V. Makhlyankin - G. Rudakov);
"Kubinoozersky ditties" (Russian folk song);
“Wherever you go, you go” (Nikolai Kutuzov - Mikhail Isakovsky);
“Only you could, my Russia” (Seraphim Tulikov - Georgy Khodosov);
Luchinushka (The night is dark...) (Russian folk song);
“My love, my Russia” (Viktor Temnov - Anatoly Sofronov);
"Small Earth" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
"Mom, dear mother" (Alexander Averkin - Igor Lashkov);
“Mother, what is dusty in the field” (Russian folk song);
"Mother and Son" (duet with Julian) (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
“In our village” (E. Kuznetsov - V. Korneev);
“Going on a visit” (Alexander Averkin - Viktor Bokov);
"In a beautiful green meadow" (German folk song);
"On seven winds" (Mark Fradkin - V. Lazarev);
"On the hills of Manchuria" (Ilya Shatrov - Alexei Mashistov);
"Hope, Faith and Love" (Evgeny Ptichkin - Konstantin Skvortsov);
"Our deputy" (Anatoly Novikov - Sergey Alymov);
“Do not scold me, dear” (A. Dubuc - A. Razorenov);
"Swan Not Along the River" (Russian folk song);
“I couldn’t sleep on a long night” (Nikolai Polikarpov - A. Gadalov);
“No, he did not love” (Alphonse Guerchia - E. Delpreite, trans. M. Medvedev);
“No, I don’t love you so passionately” (A. Shishkin - Mikhail Lermontov);
"Neither silver nor gold" (Norwegian folk song);
"Thread" (Mark Fradkin - Mikhail Matusovsky);
"The night is bright" (Mikhail Shishkin - Nikolai Yazykov);
"About Russia" (Mikhail Chistov - Marina Lunina);
"Clouds" (Anatoly Novikov - Pyotr Gradov);
“The path broke off” (Oscar Feltsman - Harold Registan);
“The fire burns unquenchable” (Anatoly Novikov - I. Yushin);
“Oh, mushrooms-mushrooms” (Viktor Temnov - Pyotr Chernyaev);
“Oh, yes, the carrier (In memory of the mother)” (Nikolai Pisarenko - Alexander Tvardovsky);
“Oh, snow-snow” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Viktor Bokov);
“The soldier grew a mustache” (Alexander Averkin - I. Loshakov);
"Orenburg downy shawl" (Grigory Ponomarenko - Viktor Bokov);
"Officer's Wives" (Alexander Dolukhanyan - Evgeny Dolmatovsky);
“Leaves are falling” (Alexander Averkin - Viktor Bokov);
"Guys of the pre-war years" (Vladimir Migulya - Karina Filippova-Diodorova);
"Song about the city - the hero of Novorossiysk" (Grigory Ponomarenko - Kronid Oboyshchikov);
"Song about my soldier" (Evgeny Zharkovsky - Margarita Agashina);
"Song of the Coast" (Japanese folk song);
“Talk to me” (duet with Nikolai Rastorguev) (Igor Matvienko - Alexander Shaganov);
“Across space on foot” (A. Dolukhanyan - I. Morozov);
“Under the arc, the bell sings” (M. Nikolaevsky - V. Garlitsky);
“Give me a handkerchief” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Margarita Agashina);
"Let's bow to those great years" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Mikhail Lvov);
"Flood" (Seraphim Tulikov - Vladimir Kharitonov);
"People Remember" (Oscar Feltsman - Evgeny Dolmatovsky);
“I remember, I was still a young woman” (Russian folk song);
"Dedication (to the memory of V. Shukshin)" (Evgeny Ptichkin - Anatoly Poperechny);
“I will sow a swan” (Russian folk song);
"Farewell" (Tikhon Khrennikov - Fedor Kravchenko);
"Farewell, Rocky Mountains" (Evgeny Zharkovsky - Nikolai Bukin);
“Is it possible to forget” (Viktor Temnov - O. Levitsky);
“Tell me, mom” (Evgeny Martynov, the authors of the words are Andrey Dementiev, D. Usmanov);
“A birch grows in Volgograd” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Margarita Agashina);
“Russia, remember yourself” (Anatoly Sobolev - Karina Filippova-Diodorova);
"Ryazan Madonnas" (Alexander Dolukhanyan - Anatoly Poperechny);
"Orphan" (Grigory Ponomarenko - G. Kurevskaya);
“Tell me, son” (Anatoly Novikov - Lev Oshanin);
"Smolensk Road" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
"Gagarin's Constellation" (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov);
"Soldiers" (Yu. Svidersky - Lyudmila Tatyanicheva);
“Dropped a ring” (music - Russian folk in the arr. Anatoly Shalaev, words - Russian folk);
"Steppes, steppes" (Valentin Levashov - Valentin Levashov);
"Steppe and steppe all around" (Russian folk song);
"Syktyvkar";
"Your traces" (Arno Babadzhanyan - Evgeny Yevtushenko);
"The Volga Flows" (Mark Fradkin - Lev Oshanin);
"It Was a Saturday Night" (Danish folk song);
"Only once (Just one chance)" (duet with Mark Almond) (Boris Fomin - Pavel German);
"Thin Rowan" (music - Russian folk in the arr. Nikolai Budashkin, words - Russian folk);
"Meadow grasses" (Evgeny Ptichkin - Tatyana Ulyanova);
“Sing in the garden, nightingale” (Russian folk song);
"You are my only one" (Icelandic folk song);
“You, my Russia” (Serafim Tulikov - Sergey Ostrovoy);
“You are near” (Alexandra Pakhmutova - Yulia Drunina);
“You, garden” (Russian folk song);
Foggy Morning (Arkady Abaza - Ivan Turgenev);
"Meadow Duck" (Russian folk song);
"Flowers of Russia" (Evgeny Ptichkin - Vladimir Butenko);
"Black-browed, black-eyed" (Russian folk song);
“What was, was” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Margarita Agashina);
"Silk grass" (Lyudmila Zykina - Viktor Bokov);
"My southern city" (Grigory Ponomarenko - Gennady Georgiev);
"I am the Earth" (Vano Muradeli - Evgeny Dolmatovsky);
“I am flying over Russia” (Grigory Ponomarenko - Oleg Levitsky);
“I love you” (Yakov Prigozhy - Y. Adamovich);
“I have not forgotten you over the years” (Pyotr Bulakhov, in the arr. Vera Gorodovskaya - L. Zhodeiko)
LYUDMILA ZYKINA THE VOLGA RIVER FLOWS
Early years, childhood and the family of Lyudmila Zykina
The future People's Artist of the USSR was born into an ordinary Moscow family in that difficult period when one historical era was replaced by another. Her childhood was the most ordinary: school, lessons, games with friends in Moscow courtyards. The family of Lyudmila Zykina was quite wealthy, and therefore the early years of the life of the great singer can be called happy with full confidence.Everything changed with the Second World War. During these difficult years, twelve-year-old Luda helped her elders, performing the duties of a turner at the Moscow Ordzhonikidze Machine-Tool Plant. For her contribution to the common cause, the future singer received the title of "Honored Ordzhonikidzovets", which she was later very proud of. After the end of hostilities, Zykina went to work in a military clinical hospital and began working as a nurse, and then as a seamstress. At the same time, as the artist herself admitted, the cherished dream of her childhood was the profession of a pilot.
Creative career and the first steps of Lyudmila Zykina on stage
The singing career of a young girl began almost by accident. Deciding to try her hand at the big stage, Lyudmila Zykina became a participant in the All-Russian Competition for Young Performers, which was held in Moscow in 1947. Several thousand people applied for places in the Folk Choir named after M. Pyatnitsky. The competition reached one and a half thousand people per place. It was difficult to count on success, but the singer's unforgettable voice and sparkling talent did their job, eighteen-year-old Luda became the soloist of the famous ensemble.It was here that Zykina comprehended all the wisdom of the singing craft. The Pyatnitsky Choir became an excellent school for her, but in 1949 she left its ranks and began working at the First Model Printing House in Moscow. Perhaps at that moment doubts arose in the heart of the singer about her future fate. However, the passion for music outweighed all doubts.
In 1951, Zykina began performing with the Russian Song Choir of the All-Union Radio, and already in 1960, having become an artist of the Mosconcert, she began to sing solo.
Lyudmila Zykina - Why did you call me?
It is worth noting that the sixties were marked by a real take-off of her career. The geography of the singer's touring activities stretched from Siberia to Kamchatka, from the Urals to the Far East. During this period, the singer became the winner of several singing competitions at once. Her voice was admired by famous artists, politicians and representatives of the top military leadership of the USSR. The main theme of her work was
The culture of Russia, and this was very relevant in her time
With concert performances, the singer traveled all over the Union republics. Her work was especially liked in Azerbaijan. How strange it is, it was in the Land of Fire that Lyudmila Georgievna first received the title of People's Artist.This significant event happened in 1972. And from that moment on, Zykina's personal collection of awards and titles began to grow with surprising regularity. In 1973, the singer was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. In the seventies and eighties, she became the winner of the Lenin Prize, the owner of the Order of Lenin, the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. I. Glinka, as well as many other awards. The full list of awards that have taken a worthy place in the personal collection of the singer is completely impossible to calculate. And therefore, today we will leave the numerous regalia of Zykina out of the brackets.
In 1977, already a well-known and popular performer, Lyudmila Zykina became the leader and soloist of the Russian folk ensemble Rossiya. It is with this group that the later work of the singer is connected. She was loved and respected - the audience always willingly came to her concerts, and famous composers considered it an honor to work with her. So the songs of Mark Fradkin, Alexander Averkin, Grigory Ponomarenko, Viktor Temnov and many other talented authors appeared in the repertoire of Zykina.
Personal life of Lyudmila Zykina
In her life, Lyudmila Zykina was married four times, but relatively little is known about her husbands. The artist's first chosen one was engineer Vladlen Pozdnov, the second was Yevgeny Svalov, a photojournalist of the Soviet Warrior magazine, popular in those years. The third husband of Lyudmila Georgievna was Vladimir Kotelkin, a Soviet translator and teacher of foreign languages. 
In fact, only the fourth husband of the singer, bayan virtuoso Viktor Gridin, was a well-known and remarkable person. Since 1975, he led the Rossiya ensemble, which accompanied Lyudmila Zykina. This is how the two people met. The lovers lived in marriage for 17 long years, but in the mid-nineties, Victor left Lyudmila for Nadezhda Krygina, another folk singer.
The death of Lyudmila Zykina
In the last years of her life, Zykina was seriously ill. She was worried about diabetes. In 2007, the artist underwent a serious operation, as a result of which her hip joint was removed. However, this did not stop her from living her usual life. On June 10, 2009, she magnificently celebrated her eightieth birthday. Among the guests were many well-known Russian figures of politics and art. This day was the last holiday in the life of the artist. 
Three weeks later, Lyudmila Georgievna had a heart attack. On July 1, 2009, the singer died of cardiac arrest. Farewell to the People's Artist of the USSR took place on July 3 in the Moscow Concert Hall. P. I. Tchaikovsky. The grave of Lyudmila Zykina is located at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Lyudmila Zykina was and remains the greatest legend of the Soviet stage, folk art and romances. Her voice was called the best in the USSR. Having lived a long and rather bright life, Lyudmila Georgievna did surprisingly much. She collaborated with the best composers and orchestras, performed at all venues in the country. Her voice was admired by ordinary people and high-ranking officials, as well as foreign guests of the USSR. Lyudmila was a television and radio star of the late 50s and beyond. She was the owner of State Prizes, the title of People's Artist of the USSR, as well as the soloist of the ensemble with the great and loud name "Russia".
But even despite who the singer was, it cannot be said that her fate was carefree, easy and happy. And anyone who is at least a little familiar with her biography can be convinced of this.
Height, weight, age. Years of life of Lyudmila Zykina
As you know, fans are interested in all the parameters of the stars, and Irina is no exception. Often looking for height, weight, age. The years of life of Lyudmila Zykina were bright and rich in interesting events. Her height was 167 centimeters, the dates of her life were 1929 - 2009, the artist died at the age of 80.
Her figure can not be called perfect, she was a woman with forms, her hairstyle is chic, and her gaze was both mesmerizing and attractive. And with all this, Lyudmila was attractive in appearance, a third of the women of the country imitated her, her daughters were even named after her. Her voice conquered everyone from very young listeners to very respectable age.
Biography and personal life of Lyudmila Zykina
A pop singer was born on June 10, 1929 in an ordinary family of workers. Childhood passed in a carefree village of working people in Moscow. From an early age, she helped with the housework, knew how to cook, and also spent long evenings on her own without supervision without her parents while they were at work. But the Great Patriotic War in 1941 made its own adjustments in the lives of people, including a little girl. At the age of 12, the girl mastered turning skills and worked at a factory. After the end of the war, the girl graduated from school as an external student and again went to work in a military hospital.
In 1947, she first took part in a competition for young talents, where she won a prize and got into the Pyatnitsky choir. Lyudmila began to sing in the choir, and after a while her mother died, and this was a great shock for the girl, she even lost her voice due to stress. Lyudmila leaves the choir, and she has to restore her voice for a long time. Then she was offered to be a soloist in the choir of the All-Union Radio, and since 1960 Zykina began her solo career. After that, her career quickly began to gain momentum.
In 1973, Lyudmila became the People's Artist of the USSR. And already in 1977 he began to direct and solo the folk ensemble "Russia".
The biography and personal life of Lyudmila Zykina delights and sometimes shocks fans of her work, because she has achieved popular recognition and at the same time, such a wonderful person’s personal life, one might say, did not work out.
Family and children of Lyudmila Zykina
The parents of Lyudmila Zykina were the most ordinary people. Mom Ekaterina Vasilievna (1902 - 1950) - she was a hospital nurse and also worked as a nurse there. Father Georgy Petrovich (1899 - 1956) - worked at the plant as a simple worker. Lyudmila also had a brother Alexander. The family was friendly and cheerful, very often relatives and guests came and they all sang songs together, and dad played the accordion. They did not live well, my mother often worked in two shifts, and my father disappeared at the factory, and the children often played on their own in the yard.
Lyudmila did not have her own children. Although the woman often thought about the baby, she did not dare. The artist was quite strict with herself and believed that it was necessary to choose “children or a career,” so she devoted herself to creativity.
The family and children of Lyudmila Zykina are that side of the life of the actress that remained unfulfilled.
Former husband of Lyudmila Zykina - Vladlen Pozdnov
Lyudmila rushed about for a long time in search of happiness and spiritual outlet. The actress first met her future first husband at the age of 22. Her chosen one was the most ordinary engineer of an automobile plant - Vladlen Pozdnov. At that time, young Zykina was already a singing rising star.
Young people met for some time, and then officially registered their marriage. The ex-husband of Lyudmila Zykina, Vladlen Pozdnov, briefly lingered in the fate of the artist, unfortunately, could not become her companion for life. Their marriage lasted only some three years, the initiator of the divorce was Lyudmila herself.
Former husband of Lyudmila Zykina - Evgeny Svalov
The ex-husband of Lyudmila Zykina, Evgeny Svalov, became the second attempt in the artist's life in search of that only female happiness. Eugene was a photojournalist for the then popular military literary and artistic magazine "Soviet Warrior".
He courted the singer very beautifully, that Lyudmila's heart melted, and they got married. The man was quite loving and, moreover, a creative person, and after a while he began to cheat, being married to Lyudmila. Upon learning of Eugene's infidelities, the woman immediately broke off all relations. After all, Lyudmila was not only a talented and strong-willed woman who does not tolerate betrayal.
Former husband of Lyudmila Zykina - Vladimir Kotelkin
The ex-husband of Lyudmila Zykina - Vladimir Kotelkin - was the third attempt in the life of the singer. Vladimir, like Lyudmila's second ex-husband, was a journalist and part-time teacher and translator of foreign languages.
The man was quite handsome and educated, which, at first, interested the star. Lyudmila belongs to the type of people who are warriors and leaders in life, for whom it is quite difficult to find a mate for life. It is with such individuals that it often happens that they themselves lose any interest in their chosen one, because such a woman needs a man strong both in spirit and in character. After that, Lyudmila decides to break off this leading to nothing marriage.
Former husband of Lyudmila Zykina - Viktor Gridin
The longest and, perhaps, the happiest marriage, which lasted 17 years, for Lyudmila, was with the bayan player of her own ensemble, Viktor Gridin. Her chosen one Victor was 14 years younger than the artist, many people were struck by the difference in the age of their lovers. But as the saying goes, "all ages are submissive to love."
The couple enjoyed life, toured together, and spent all their free time together. Until a creative triangle was drawn in their ensemble, as a result of which the marriage of Zykina and Gridin did not fall apart. The ex-husband of Lyudmila Zykina, Viktor Gridin, fell in love with another woman from his own ensemble, and left for her. Four years later, the man died of cancer.
Causes of death of Lyudmila Zykina
At the moment, the causes of death of Lyudmila Zykina are known to everyone - this is a serious illness. Since 2007, the actress suffered greatly from diabetes, then she underwent a rather difficult operation on the hip joint. The recovery was protracted and difficult, due to the age of Lyudmila Georgievna. Then the birthday girl celebrates the round date of 80 years, her holiday was chic and fun, many famous people were invited.
After the celebration, Zykina planned a tour. But two weeks later she had a heart attack, and after 5 days Lyudmila Zykina died. The folk star died on July 1, 2009, with a diagnosis of cardio-liver failure. The funeral took place at the Novodevichy Cemetery, not only celebrities, politicians, but also ordinary people who mourn and love her work came to see off the legend of the folk song on their last journey.
Wikipedia Lyudmila Zykina
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Personal life of Lyudmila Zykina has always been shrouded in many legends. She tried to take all the best from life, and she preferred to marry only the most prominent men. However, they say that she truly did not love almost any of her men and parted with them without regret. Her first husband was an engineer of the automobile plant. Likhachev Vladlen Pozdnov. Then she was twenty-two years old, and she, having already been a soloist of the State Academic Russian Folk Choir. Pyatnitsky, became a soloist of the Mosconcert. Having lived with her first husband for three years, Zykina broke up with him after learning that he was cheating on her with her friend. Because of this divorce, an entry appeared in her Komsomol personal file that she was morally unstable.
For this reason, Lyudmila Georgievna, when she first applied with a corresponding application, was denied entry into the party. The next man who entered the personal life of Lyudmila Zykina was the photographer Yevgeny Svalov, whom the singer accidentally met on a trolley bus. But this marriage was also rather fleeting, according to rumors, the second husband of Lyudmila Zykina was also convicted of infidelity. During these years, being in close relations with the then Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, the singer had great influence and opportunities. She has toured extensively, including abroad. The peak of her popularity came in the early seventies, but in the personal life of Lyudmila Zykina during this period, everything was not as successful as in her career. After a divorce from her second husband, the singer graduated from the Institute of Culture, and for the third time she married a foreign language teacher, journalist and translator Vladimir Kotelkin. He courted the singer for three years, but this marriage was as short-lived as the previous ones. Kotelkin saw his family life in a completely different way. He dreamed of children, a quiet family life and delicious meals prepared by his wife, but the people's artist did not have time for this at all.
And only in the fourth marriage, Lyudmila Georgievna found out what true love is. Her last husband Viktor Gridin was fourteen years younger than the singer, and at the time he met her he was married. For the sake of Zykina, he left the family, but, having lived with Lyudmila Georgievna for seventeen years, he never became her official spouse. Gridin is an accordion player, and they were connected with the singer not only by love, but also by common professional interests. A huge blow for Zykina was the news that Gridin fell in love with another woman - a young singer from their own ensemble "Russia" Nadezhda Krygina.
In the photo Zykina and Mikhail Kizin
In the personal life of Lyudmila Zykina there were many novels, but one of the most famous was a relationship with Lieutenant General Nikolai Filippenko, and, at the end of her life, with men much younger than her - singer Mikhail Kizin and psychotherapist Viktor Konstantinov, whom she was even going to marry married.
Name: Lyudmila Zykina
Date of Birth: June 10, 1929
Zodiac sign: Twins
Age: 80 years old
Date of death: July 1, 2009
Place of Birth: Moscow
Activity: pop singer
Education: Gnessin Russian Academy of Music
Family status: was divorced
Wikipedia
Biography
Lyudmila Zykina is a well-known performer of folk songs that cannot but touch the soul and evoke the best feelings and emotions in it. The singer is a Hero of Socialist Labor, a laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, and the performer was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
Childhood, family
Lyudmila Zykina was born on the tenth of June in Moscow. Her parents were hardworking people. Mom, Ekaterina Vasilievna, worked in a military hospital. She was a simple nurse, but she always treated her work with respect and loved her. The father of the famous singer, Georgy Petrovich Zykin, worked at the factory all his life, was a worker. The musical biography of the girl began in her childhood, as she and her brother Alexander constantly listened to singing and playing the accordion.
The grandmother of the future folk singer always sang and did it just great. Her mother always sang along with her, and her father could skillfully pick up any music on the accordion. Therefore, Lyudmila herself began to participate in such home concerts over time. According to the memoirs of Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina, she began to sing at a preschool age and could never imagine life without songs and music.
The girl always liked to sing, but she did not even think about any musical career. But all her thoughts and dreams were about the sky. She always thought about becoming a famous pilot. But the war changed everything. In 1941, she was barely twelve years old, but this did not stop her from helping in the rear.
A teenage girl forgot about school and went to work at a machine-tool plant. Lyudmila easily and quickly mastered the profession of a turner and began to work together with adults. Soon the girl was even able to get the highest rank in this specialty.
But as soon as the victory in the war was won, the future famous performer of folk songs immediately passed all the exams at the school of working youth externally. In 1947, a competition for young performers was held. And Lyudmila Georgievna decided to test their strength. Zykina successfully passed all the auditions of this all-Russian competition, and was invited to the Pyatnitsky choir.
And only a few years later, Lyudmila thought that she should definitely get a musical education. First, she studied at the Moscow Musical College, and only then did she enter the Gnessin Musical and Pedagogical Institute. When higher education was received, then at that time the singer was already forty-eight years old.
Career
The creative biography of the most beautiful performer of both folk and pop songs began in the Pyatnitsky choir, where she was enrolled after winning the competition for young performers. And, despite the fact that Zykina was taken to sing in the choir, very soon she became his soloist. And here misfortune occurs in her family: her mother dies. Grief affected Lyudmila Georgievna so much that for some time she lost her voice.And only a year later the singer restores it and begins to sing again, continuing to give her concerts. But only now her place of work is the choir of Russian songs, organized by the All-Union Radio. The repertoire of the future singer is gradually changing and expanding. It so happened that before the end of her life she performed more than 2000 different musical compositions.
Already in the middle of the nineteenth century, Lyudmila successfully won many competitions. He constantly tours not only in the cities of the Soviet Union, but also visits other countries with his performances. In 1977, the famous performer Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina created her own folk ensemble. Until the end of her life, she was the only leader of the Rossiya ensemble.
But at her concerts, Lyudmila Zykina performed many compositions in a duet with other musicians: Nikolai Rastorguev, Mikhail Kizin and others.
It is worth noting that although Lyudmila Georgievna is considered a performer of folk songs, it was her author's pop songs that brought her worldwide fame, which were converted into folklore. This and "The Volga River Flows", "Wait for me" and others.
Personal life
Lyudmila Zykina was married four times. But every divorce happened precisely because the singer herself was its initiator. Her first marriage took place at a time when she was barely twenty-two years old. The first husband of the famous folk singer was Vladlen Pozdnov, who worked as an engineer at one of the automobile factories.The second husband is Evgeny Svalov, who worked in the Soviet Warrior magazine. The third chosen one is journalist Vladimir Kotelkin. All these marriages were short-lived, and each time Lyudmila Zykina herself initiated the divorces.
But the new and happiest family page in the biography of the singer opened in her fourth marriage. Her chosen one was Viktor Gridin, with whom she lived for seventeen years. He was an accordionist. They did not have children, but this marriage was connected not only by family, but also by professional relations.
Illness and death
In recent years, Zykina suffered from diabetes. In addition, she underwent a difficult operation with difficulty. In June 2009, she had her first heart attack, right before leaving on tour. And on the first of July, the singer had already died.