19 December 1921, Moscow - June 12, 1995, Moscow. Pop singer and actor. In 1951 he graduated from GITIS. Worked in Stalinabad drama theater Mayakovsky, Minsk Russian theater named after Gorky. As the singer showed himself to be in a pop group when CDCJ, where he first performed his signature song the Butterfly and the bee and Firefly (Rio de Janeiro). In 1956, for the first time recorded on the plate at the Leningrad Studio. He was buried on 96-m plot Mitino cemetery.