Vladimir Berejkov Moscow poet, composer, bard Date of Birth: 26.02.1947 Country: Russia

Content:

1. Vladimir Berezhkov: A Renowned Moscow Bard
2. Education and Early Career
3. Music Career
4. Notable Accomplishments
5. - Member of the creative association "First Circle" (1987)
6. Notable Songs
7. - "The Church in Kadashi Still Remains"
8. - "I Was Born Without Choosing" (Russian)

Vladimir Berezhkov: A Renowned Moscow Bard

Vladimir Berezhkov is a renowned poet, composer, and bard from Moscow, Russia.

Education and Early Career

Berezhkov graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin in 1978, specializing in philology. He briefly worked as a leading engineer at the Central Scientific and Technical Information Institute of the USSR Ministry of Health.

Music Career

Berezhkov began writing songs in 1963, primarily setting his own poems to music. He has also composed songs to verses by various Russian poets, including V. Korkia, L. Gubanov, I. Brodsky, B. Pasternak, N. Zabolotsky, and O. Chukhontsev. He performs his songs accompanied by a six-string guitar.

Notable Accomplishments

- Participated in the Conference on Song Problems in Petushki (1967)
- Laureate of the Novosibirsk Festival of Author's Song (1968)

- Member of the creative union "Moscow" with V. Korkia, E. Bunimovich, and N. Iskreno (late 1980s)

- Member of the creative association "First Circle" (1987)

Literary and Musical Publications

Berezhkov's book, "We Met in Paradise," has been published, as well as an audio cassette and CD of the same name.

Notable Songs

- "In Wide Hats, in Long Jackets..." (Farewell to Friends)
- "Look, a White Bird Flies Over Moscow" (White Bird)
- "The Names of My Great-Grandfathers Are Unknown to Me"
- "All the Roads Led to This City" (Quo Vadis)
- "Love Me While I'm Alive" (Faith)
- "I Dream of a Provincial Town" (Provincial Town)
- "We Met in Paradise" (Dance-6)
- "At the Tyaininka Station on the Yauza River"
- "There Is Nothing Simpler, Nothing More Commonplace" (Straw)

- "Again Not in the Direction of Love" (Song of the Person Who Invented the Bomb)

- "The Church in Kadashi Still Remains"

- "Wait for Me, Father and Mother"
- "We Have Accustomed Ourselves to Glory at All Times" (Pirosmani)

- "The Rooks Have Arrived, but the Land Is Sad" (Savrasov. The Rooks Have Arrived)

- "I Was Born Without Choosing" (Russian)

- "The Country Where Emeralds Grow" (Is That My Home)
- "My Criminal Homeland"
- "I Remembered Neither Misfortunes nor Offenses"

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