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Master
Master
thrash metal band from Russia
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Piknik
Piknik
Russian musical group
2
Mashina Vremeni
Mashina Vremeni
Russian rock band
3
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Pugacheva
Soviet-Russian singer
4
Garik Sukachov
Garik Sukachov
singer
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Glukoza
Glukoza
Russian singer
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Viktor Klimenko
Viktor Klimenko
Finnish singer and actor
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Alexander Bard
Alexander Bard
musician, record producer, author, and activist
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Lyube
Lyube
Russian band
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Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor
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Russian bard
Awards Received
Order of Honour
People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation
Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
Badge "To a Warrior-Internationalist"
Medal "To a Warrior-Internationalist from the Grateful Afghan People"
Defender of the Motherland Medal
Golden Gramophone Award
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Prize of the Federal Security Service of Russia
Member of, past and present
4th State Duma of the Russian Federation

4th State Duma of the Russian Federation

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Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozyenbaum) (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya (criminal song) genre. Modern singers in this genre, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky often sing Rosenbaum's songs.

Graduated from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg in 1974, Rosenbaum worked in the medical field for four years. His musical education consists of piano and choreography courses at a musical school. In 1968, while still a student, Rosenbaum started writing the songs for which he is famous. His early songs were for student plays, but he soon also wrote for rock groups and started performing as a singer-songwriter in 1983, sometimes under the pseudonym "Ayarov".

Among his most famous songs are the ones about Leningrad, the Soviet–Afghan War, Cossacks, and Odessa. Songs such as "Gop-Stop" (a comedy about two gangsters executing an unfaithful lover) and "Vals-boston" (The Boston Waltz) are popular across Russian social groups and generations.

Rosenbaum is an accomplished guitarist and accompanies himself on either a six- or twelve-string acoustic guitar, using the Open G tuning adopted from the Russian seven string guitar.

His attitude toward the criminal song genre can best be illustrated by his own words:

Only a dull-witted person would think that this should not be, that this is wrong. All those songs that I call "songs of confinement," that have lasted and will last, are works of art, and as a rule they are written by cultured and educated people. Because everything that is composed in huge quantities at penitentiaries can very rarely be described as [high quality] work. ... It is very important to understand why those songs are composed, for whom and how. ... They are set in a criminal context, they contain criminal themes, but they are not at all about that. If you read and listen to them carefully, they will tell you of faithfulness, love and many other things. ... I am sometimes asked: "Why do you not write blatnaya pesnya anymore?" I am not interested in it today. The nondescript chaos now has abated somewhat, fortunately, but three, four or five years ago you switched on the crate – and had low-down trash rushing at you... Not the blatnaya pesnya that I treat with respect, but cheap blatota.