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Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (January 25, 1938, Moscow - July 25, 1980, Ibid) - Soviet poet, theater and film actor, singer-songwriter (bard), writer of prose and screenplays. Winner of the State Award of the USSR ("for creating the image of Zheglov in the television movie 'A Meeting Place Can't Be Changed' and for authorship of songs", 1987, posthumously). As a poet Vysotsky manifested himself first of all in the genre of art songs. The first of the works he wrote date back to the early 1960s. At first they were performed in the circle of friends, later they were widely known due to tape recordings disseminated all over the country. Vysotsky's poetry was notable for its variety of themes (street, camp, military, satirical, everyday life, fairy tale, "sports" songs), sharp semantic subtext, and the author's emphasized social and moral position. In his works, telling about the inner choice of people placed in extreme circumstances, existential motifs can be traced. The poet was initially known as the author of camp and street songs. From the mid-1960s the themes of his works began to expand, the number of song characters and characters began to increase; new masks and plots began to create a new, Soviet-like recognizable "encyclopedia of Russian life". Among Vladimir Semyonovich's performing peculiarities, researchers refer to the peculiar timbre (a hoarse and deaf baritone with a range of two and a half octaves) and the singing of consonant sounds, especially in "r" and "l." Vysotsky's poetry echoes the classics of Russian literature (it is influenced by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Mikhail Zoshchenko); at the same time, it is close to the traditions of art song. In 1972 Liudmila Orlova (a telephone exchange shift supervisor, who often helped Vysotsky to make contacts with Paris, the prototype of the heroine of "Zero Seven") introduced him to Konstantin Mustafidi, a satellite communications engineer, who was good at sound recording and had a high-class AIWA reel recorder at his disposal. The test recording made at Mustafidi's home appealed to Vysotsky for its quality and he agreed to record an archive of songs. Konstantin asked his friends to bring from Japan a quadro-acoustic system AKAI for Vladimir. The next recordings were made on this system in Vysotsky's apartment in Matveyevskaya street. All in all, around four hundred songs were recorded that way. Already at the beginning of their collaboration Mustafidi stipulated that the recordings would be kept with him. Vysotsky sometimes asked Konstantin to make copies for his friends and relatives, but this did not happen often. At that time, good equipment came from the Iranian businessman Babek Serush, Shemyakin, Alexander Mitta, and Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. Vysotsky began to record with them as well. After the poet's death Marina Vlady gave Mustafidi the personal tapes of Vysotsky and ordered to collect the archive of tapes from all his acquaintances. Thus the tapes were preserved, becoming known as the "Konstantin Mustafidi Collection." During Vysotsky's lifetime, his songs were not officially recognized in the USSR. In 1968, a campaign was unleashed in the press to discredit his musical and poetic creativity. Until 1981, not a single Soviet publisher released a book with his lyrics. The legalization of his work began in the Soviet Union in 1986, when a commission on Vysotsky's literary heritage was established under the USSR Union of Writers. Since the second half of the 1980s, books and collections of the poet's works began to be published, and research work devoted to his work is being carried out.

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