Lyudmila Zykina

On the Russian musical Olympus there are a number of names that have become legendary for compatriots. One of these mega-stars is singer Lyudmila Zykina, performer of folk songs, Russian romances and pop songs.

Lyudmila was born in the late 1920s in Moscow into a family of working people. Mother Ekaterina Vasilievna worked as a nurse in a military hospital, and father Georgy Petrovich worked as a factory worker. Lyudmila had a brother, Alexander. Parents taught their children to do housework. Lyudmila was responsible for domestic animals - chickens, pigs, bull, turkeys. Mom taught her daughter to cook, especially Lyudmila got borscht. And since her father was presented with a motorcycle at work before the war, the girl also learned to understand technology.

Live music was often played in the Zykins' house: grandmother sang beautifully, mother sang along with her, father played the accordion impeccably. Therefore, it is not surprising that Luda began to sing in front of people even at preschool age. The girl did it easily and with pleasure, although she did not even think about a singer's career. The fact is that Lyudmila dreamed of becoming a famous pilot.

The Great Patriotic War changed everything. In 1941, Lyudmila was only 12 years old, but this teenager did not stay away from the problems of his homeland. Zykina got a job at the Moscow Machine-Tool Plant, quickly mastered the profession of a turner, worked on a par with adults and even received the highest grade.

After Victory Day, Lyudmila Zykina graduated from the School of Working Youth as an external student, and in 1947 decided to try her luck in the All-Russian competition of young performers. This festival was held in the format of a casting, and the best singers and singers were invited to the famous Pyatnitsky folk choir. As a result, four contestants were admitted there, and the future star of Russia became one of them, the only girl. As a soloist of the choir, Lyudmila Zykina once communicated closely with Joseph Stalin. During the creation of a common picture of the members of the creative team and the leader of the nation, Stalin accidentally stood next to Lyudmila. A memorable photo has been preserved in the singer's personal archive.

Much later, Lyudmila decided to get a special education. In 1969 she graduated from the Moscow School of Music. M. Ippolitova-Ivanov, where she studied under the guidance of Elena Konstantinovna Gedevanova. In 1977, at the age of 48, she received a diploma from the Gnessin State Music and Pedagogical Institute. Later, Zykina will train young performers and achieve the academic title of professor.

Initially, Lyudmila Zykina was taken for choral performance, but soon the girl became a soloist. Career quickly went uphill, but then the singer suffered grief - her mother died. Stress affected Zykina's ligaments so much that for a year the vocalist could not only sing, but even speak normally. For a while, Zykina's vocal career was suspended. In order not to be a parasite, the girl went to work in a printing house. Fortunately, after a while, her voice was restored, and Lyudmila continued performing.

Zykina could not return to the Pyatnitsky choir, so she became a soloist of the Russian song choir of the All-Union Radio. Gradually, the singer's repertoire includes songs that are so beloved by admirers - "Thin Rowan", "Steppe and the steppe all around", "A young sailor is going on leave", "Down the Volga River" and others. In total, Zykina sang over 2000 songs, which she remembered by heart until the end of her life.

The end of the 50s was marked by Lyudmila Zykina: the singer became a laureate of one festival after another. The singer tours a lot both in the Soviet Union and abroad. During her musical career, Lyudmila Georgievna performed in 92 countries of the world, and everywhere she was received warmly and sincerely. And at home, Zykina sang at all, perhaps, in all corners. The vocalist even has a concert at the North Pole for polar explorers drifting on an ice floe.

Once the artist on tour abroad accidentally caught up with the members of The Beatles. After meeting the British musicians asked Zykina to sing a song from the Russian repertoire, and then they themselves performed a number of Russian songs. This fact from the singer's biography was kept silent for 30 years, until the artist herself spoke about the significant meeting in an interview.

Lyudmila Zykina became the favorite singer of Soviet political leaders - Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. The singer often appeared at government concerts, and once at Khrushchev's birthday party, she replaced the line in the song “The Volga River Flows” and sang “And you are 17 years old!”, Which made the hero of the day happy.

At the celebration on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin invited those present to raise a glass to Lyudmila Zykina, whom he named the only Russian singer, after which rumors about the artist and statesman's romance spread on the sidelines of the government.

Lyudmila Zykina and the Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva had a special friendship. The friends regularly visited each other, both loved bath procedures. After the death of Ekaterina Furtseva, at the time of the funeral, Lyudmila canceled the tour.

In 1977, the singer created her own Russian folk ensemble "Russia", which she led until the end of her life. In later years, Zykina often sang a duet with pop musicians - Nikolai Rastorguev, Mikhail Kizin, Mark Almond and others.

It is worth noting that although Lyudmila Georgievna is considered to be a performer of folk songs, it is the author's pop hits stylized like folklore that brought world fame to the singer: "The Volga River Flows", "Orenburg Downy Shawl", "Zimushka", "Wait for Me". For the artist, musical hits were created by composers Rodion Shchedrin, Oscar Feltsman, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Tikhon Khrennikov, Mark Fradkin.

The last years of her life, Zykina continued to give concerts. In addition to teaching at a music university, Lyudmila Zykina also oversaw a number of orphanages, served as president of the Russian Academy of Culture and president of the Moscow Peace Foundation. A charitable foundation acted on behalf of the singer, the director of which was Mikhail Kizin, the soloist of the Rossiya ensemble. The singer helped the artist work on her autobiography I Love You, which was released in 2009. Zykina's last concert program had the same name.

Lyudmila Zykina married four times and parted with each of the spouses on her own initiative. The first time the girl went down the aisle at 22. Then the artist's husband was Vladlen Pozdnov, an engineer at an automobile plant. Then there were the photojournalist of the magazine "Soviet Warrior" Yevgeny Svalov and the journalist Vladimir Kotelkin. Each of these marriages was short-term, it was difficult for men to stay for a long time near this strong-willed woman.

The fourth husband, virtuoso accordion player Viktor Gridin, lived with Lyudmila Zykina for 17 years. They were connected by family and professional relationships. But the artist's personal life did not work out with him either. The last 15 years of her life, the singer lived alone. Lyudmila did not have children, although the singer wanted to have a child. But in this matter, Lyudmila Zykina was strict with herself: either motherhood, or a career. The woman did not dare to combine these two paths.

The artist suffered from diabetes mellitus, which disrupted the metabolism. Also, in recent years, Lyudmila Georgievna moved with difficulty, because of which she even had to undergo a complex operation to implant a hip joint.

On June 10, 2009, Lyudmila Zykina celebrated her anniversary and planned to start touring the country. It has already been agreed that a doctor will accompany the artist on the trip. But two weeks later, the singer had another heart attack. Lyudmila Georgievna was taken to the intensive care unit, the doctors tried to provide Zykina with maximum help, but on July 1, 2009, the singer died of cardiovascular failure.

Three years after the death of the artist, jewelry was put up for auction, which sold for more than $ 1 million. Relatives announced that these funds would go to perpetuate the memory of the artist. As an inheritance to her personal assistant Tatiana Svinkova, the singer bequeathed her own dacha in Mikhalevo. And the apartment on Kotelnicheskaya embankment was resold four times. Now the apartment has a fifth owner. The full-length bronze pedestal was installed by the "House of Lyudmila Zykina", an organization that supports novice vocalists.

In 2013, a biographical film about Zykina "Lyudmila" was released on television, where the role of the main character was played by actress Vera Sotnikova.

1963 - "Russian folk songs" 1964 - "Steppes, steppes" 1965 - "Songs of Soviet composers" 1968 - "To you, woman" 1969 - "Native tunes" 1971 - "Songs about astronauts" 1976 - "Only you could, my Russia "1984 -" Recollection. Russian Romances "1985 -" To you, veterans "1990 -" How can you forget ... "

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