Vyacheslav Dobrynin

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoryevich and the family name is Dobrynin.

Vyacheslav Dobrynin
Вячеслав Добрынин
Dobrynin in 2021
Born
Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Antonov

(1946-01-25)25 January 1946
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died1 October 2024(2024-10-01) (aged 78)
Moscow, Russia
Alma materMoscow State University
Occupations
  • Composer
  • singer
Years active1970s–2024
TitlePeople's Artist of Russia (1996)
AwardsOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class)

Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (Russian: Вячесла́в Григо́рьевич Добры́нин, born Antonov (Russian: Анто́нов);[1] 25 January 1946 – 1 October 2024)[2] was a popular Russian composer and singer also known as Doctor Shlyager. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.[3][4]

Early life

Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He never bore his father's surname of Petrosian – his father left the family before he was born and he used his mother's surname Antonov throughout his childhood, changing it to Dobrynin in 1972.[5] He studied at Moscow State University and received a diploma as an "art historian and theorist" in 1970. He subsequently worked at the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum.

Career

As an amateur musician and singer he participated in different Beatles-style groups. Dobrynin started to compose songs in the late-1960s and from 1971 co-operated with the Oleg Lundstrem orchestra, "Vesyolye Rebyata", "Samotsvety" and other bands. He has written more than 1000 songs, often based on poems by Leonid Derbenyov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Tanich and Ilya Reznik. In 1998, Dobrynin got a star on the Star Square in Moscow.

In the 1980s Dobrynin started to record his own songs, and in 1990 he founded "Doctor Shlyager" band.

Death

It was reported that Dobrynin suffered a stroke in September 2024 and was hospitalised in Moscow.[6][7] His death was reported on 1 October. He was 78.[6]

Songs

Dobrynin's songs are mostly dedicated to unhappy love and romantic events of a person's life. Among his most popular hits are:[8][9]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Dobrynin's interview for the Trud Newspaper (2005) (in Russian)
  2. ^ "Умер Вячеслав Добрынин". Life.ru (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b «Моя настоящая фамилия Антонов. Петросян — это по отцу» (in Russian)
  4. ^ "Награждён указом президента России от 29 января 1996 года". Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Сменил имя из-за Антонова, учился с Ландау и попал в кадр благодаря Боярскому: к 75-летию Вячеслава Добрынина". Mir24 (in Russian). Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Умер Вячеслав Добрынин". РИА Новости (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Умер Вячеслав Добрынин". РБК (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  8. ^ Вячеслав Добрынин на Первом канале в программе Андрея Малахова «Сегодня вечером» (7 ноября 2015) (in Russian)
  9. ^ "Ушёл Доктор Шлягер. Вспоминаем лучшие песни Вячеслава Добрынин". tsargrad.tv (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Послушайте песни Вячеслава Добрынина. 15 хитов на все времена. Композитор и певец умер 1 октября на 79-м году жизни". RBK Daily (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d e "5 хитов Вячеслава Добрынина, которые навсегда запомнят те, кто был молод в 1980-е". Vokrug sveta (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Кто придумал, что тебя я не люблю: 10 лучших песен Вячеслава Добрынина". PostNews (in Russian). 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации". Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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