Sunday 24 March 2013

March 24

Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (Russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко; March 24 1906, Kharkov – June 17, 1984, Moscow) was a popular female singer of the Soviet Union.

Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her version of Sebastian Yradier's La Paloma. In 1939, she was awarded at the first all-Soviet competition of pop singers.

During World War II, Shulzhenko performed about a thousand concerts for Soviet soldiers in besieged Leningrad and elsewhere. The lyrics of one of her prewar songs, The Blue Headscarf, were adapted so as to suit wartime realities. Another iconic song of the Eastern Front (World War II), Let's Smoke, was later used by Vladimir Menshov in his Oscar-winning movie Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears.

On April 10, 1976 Shulzhenko performed to enraptured audience in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in what would become her most famous concert.

3 comments:

  1. also it the day of the birth of Svetlana Andreevna Toma. She is a Moldovan–Russian actress. She debuted at the Moldova-Film studio in 1966.

    Filmography:
    Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver (1978)
    Dina (1990)
    Anna Pavlova (1983)
    Tabor ukhodit v nebo (1975)

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  2. In this day Andrey Ilyich Merzlikin's birthday! He is a Russian film and television actor.

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  3. Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first at the Soviet Championship (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

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