Today, December 25, it became known that a Tu-154 plane disappeared from the radar after taking off from the airport near Sochi, and then the aircraft belonging to the Ministry of Defense crashed. On board were the artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

People's Artist of Russia, Leading Soloist of the Ensemble. Alexandrova "KP" found at home. Vadim Petrovich just found out that the plane on which his colleagues flew to congratulate our servicemen in Syria on the New Year disappeared from the radar:

Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Culture, National artist USSR Iosif Kobzon said that he was supposed to fly with the Alexandrov Ensemble on the crashed Tu-154. The artist explained that he could not fly because of a medical visa and plans to go for treatment: "On the 14th, we had a concert with them in the Hall of Columns, and Valery Khalilov (leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble - ed.) asked me to fly with them, but I said that I had a medical visa and I had to fly for treatment, especially since I had once visited Syria with them and with Khalilov, so I said: next time somehow.

Leading soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble Vadim Ananyev: "My son was born and I stayed, and did not fly with my colleagues" - Chelyabinsk. The Tu-154 plane crashed this morning near Sochi after takeoff, Vadim Petrovich only found out that the plane on which they flew

Leading soloist of the Ensemble named after A. V. Alexandrov Vadim Ananiev: "My son was born, and I stayed, and did not fly with my colleagues." Today, December 25, it became known that a Tu-154 aircraft disappeared from the radar after taking off from the airport near Sochi.

My colleagues and friends flew there - a choir, about 50 people, a group of bayan and balalaika players. They were supposed to give one concert and return. I don't know what to say yet, I hope for the best. And I myself did not fly for family reasons - my son, the third child in the family, was recently born, so I stayed at home to help my wife.

HELP "KP"

In the state of the twice Red Banner Academic Ensemble songs and dances of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov now consists of 186 artists: male choir, orchestra and a dancing group. The ensemble's choir has repeatedly been recognized as one of the best choirs in the world. Now it is the largest military art group in Russia. The ensemble was created by professor of the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR, composer Alexander Alexandrov. The band's first performance took place in 1928. The team became the ancestor of a whole direction - song and dance ensembles, which were created in his likeness.

During the Great Patriotic War the ensemble performed 1,500 times at the front, and in peacetime the ensemble constantly went with concerts to "hot spots" - Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Transnistria, Tajikistan, the Chechen Republic. "Aleksandrovna" were awarded honorary creative titles, and the ensemble itself has repeatedly received prizes and awards at home and abroad.

Recruitment to the Alexandrov Ensemble will begin after the New Year.
The team will select the best

Vadim Ananyev was born on March 21, 1959 in the city of Samara. Father worked as a rural veterinarian, mother worked as a cook. The boy from childhood had a phenomenal voice, adored music. Graduated with honors music school in piano class. In the late 1970s, he served in the Strategic Missile Forces in Belarus, during which he played in a brass band.

After demobilization, he received a diploma from the conductor and choral department of the Kazan state institute culture. Further, Vadim Ananiev served as a soloist of Yoshkar-Ola musical theater, and in 1984 he continued his profile education, enrolling at the Gnessin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, at the vocal department, in the class of the People's Artist of Russia, Professor Konstantin Pavlovich Lisovsky.

It was on his advice that in the fall of 1987 Vadim Petrovich successfully took part in the competitive selection for the choir of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble Russian army named after Alexander Alexandrov, and in 1999 he became a soloist of the choir.

As part of the Ensemble's choir, over the past thirty years he has constantly taken part in holiday concerts, tours in large and small cities of Russia, Europe, Asia, America, repeatedly performed as part of the choir in places of military conflicts of recent decades in the territories of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and Syria.

In many domestic and foreign media, Vadim Petrovich is referred to as "Mr. Kalinka" for performing the solo part in a famous Russian song. In 2004, Vadim Petrovich performed "Kalinka" and others famous songs for Pope John Paul II at an exclusive concert in honor of the 26th anniversary of his pontificate in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican and was highly appreciated for his performance, and even awarded the silver medal of the Pontifical Council.

At the invitation of the Chairman of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, Vadim Ananiev took part in the meeting of Pope Benedict XVI with artists in Sistine Chapel held November 21, 2009. The meeting was attended by 250 artists, sculptors, architects, writers, musicians, singers, theater and film directors from all over the world.

In connection with the birth of his son, on December 25, 2016, he did not fly to a performance at the Khmeimim air base of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria, when the plane crashed and most of the choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble died. After the plane crash, the Ensemble's choral department survived, except for Ananiev, the soloists: baritone Boris Dyakov, bassist Valery Gavva, artists of the choir: Roman Valutov and Vladimir Khlopnikov.

Vadim Petrovich Ananiev(March 21, Kuibyshev, RSFSR) - Soviet and Russian singer, leading soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Aleksandrov, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005), member of the jury of the All-Russian annual vocal competition among subjects Russian Federation"New star". Over the past decades, he has been a permanent soloist of the songs "Kalinka" and "Katyusha" abroad and in Russia as part of the choir.

Biography

Vadim Petrovich Ananiev was born on March 21, 1959 in the Kuibyshev region. His father was a rural veterinarian, his mother was a cook. Graduated with honors from a music school in piano. He did military service in the Strategic Missile Forces in Belarus, during which he played in a brass band.

Songs performed

• Modern version of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation

The ceremonial concert of the Twice Red Banner Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov ended with the song "Serve Russia" by Eduard Khank and Ilya Reznik, performed by People's Artist of Russia Vadim Ananyev. It captures the spirit when his amazingly strong and rich in colors voice soars above the choir. The "visiting cards" of the famous tenor were "Kalinka", "On a sunny meadow", "Nightingales" ...
Our conversation with Vadim Petrovich took place immediately after the performance in the wings of the Winter Palace.

LEGENDS OF THE RED SIGN
- Along with the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the MiG-29 aircraft and the T-34 tank, the Alexandrov ensemble, which celebrates its 80th anniversary in October this year, is one of the brands of the Russian army. But what was the starting point in its existence?
– The ensemble’s birthday is considered to be a concert in Central house Red Army, held October 12, 1928. Then eight singers, two dancers, an accordion player and a reader were involved in the program. Literary and musical compositions ("Far East", "Red Army" ...), or, in today's language, musicals, were very popular. Our ensemble started working in this genre eighty years ago! Today, our team, consisting of a choir, orchestra and ballet, has 186 people. But we had the largest composition after the war. In the 1950s, it included up to 320 artists. And organized an ensemble ...
- ... Professor of the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR, creator of the music of the Anthem of the USSR (and later of Russia) Major General Alexander Alexandrov.
- Everything is correct. On April 13, we celebrate the 125th anniversary of his birth. April 12 - a concert in the village of Plakhino, Ryazan region, where Alexander Vasilyevich was born, on the 13th - in the Yesenin Hall in Ryazan. In one of his last letters, Alexandrov wrote: “How much has been experienced and what a path has been traveled from the time when I was a boy in bast shoes to the present moment. There was a lot of good and bad. And life was a continuous struggle, full of work, worries, difficulties. But I do not complain about anything. I thank fate for the fact that my life, my work has brought some fruits to the dear Fatherland and the people. This is a great happiness ... ".
From 1946 to 1987, the team was led by his son - Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, Major General Boris Alexandrov. Now the head of the ensemble is the Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Colonel Leonid Malev, and artistic director and chief conductor - People's Artist of Russia Vyacheslav Korobko.
– The history of the ensemble is covered with many legends. According to one of them, Stalin, having heard the "Holy War" performed by the "Alexandrovites", could not restrain himself and uttered a mean tear. The story is no less impressive: the first front-line brigades left for Western Front already June 24, 1941, although, it would seem, what kind of songs are there ...
- Two days later - on June 26 - our artists performed on three fronts: Southern, Western and Southwestern. The ensemble was divided into four front-line brigades, performing in all areas almost continuously. During the war years, our team gave more than one and a half thousand concerts. And when, in 1943, there were not enough musicians in the ensemble, Alexandrov turned to Stalin, and he ordered that the orchestra be urgently completed. It turned out that an excellent trombonist, a graduate of the conservatory, was fighting in Stalingrad. He, an artilleryman and battery commander, was urgently recalled by the personal order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to carry out military service with us. And it is no coincidence! Alexander Vasilievich said this about this: "I have never been a military specialist, but I still had a powerful weapon in my hands - a song that can smash the enemy."
Lebedev-Kumach's poem "Holy War" was published in Izvestia on the second day of the war, and a day later Alexandrov had the music ready, which turned this text into the main song of the Great Patriotic War. Under it, performed by our ensemble, the first fighters left for the front from the Belorussky railway station.

CULTURAL FRONT DETAIL
- To this day, your artists, sometimes risking their lives in the name of maintaining the morale of the Russian military, appear in the most troubled places on our planet: in Afghanistan, Algeria ...
- ... In Yugoslavia, Transnistria, the Chechen Republic, Tajikistan. By the way, the next tour in Tajikistan is planned in November, and from June 6 to 13, our concert group will perform in Abkhazia. But our main task is not foreign tours, but performances in Russia - in "hot spots", in military units, hospitals, clubs, officers' houses. The lion's share of concerts takes place in our country, although, of course, we have always been considered a "cultural front detachment".
- Still would! Your foreign tours are accompanied by the corresponding newspaper headlines: "The Russian army in the Vatican", "The Russian army captured London", "The Russian army conquered NATO headquarters"...
– Last May marked the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Russian Federation. Diplomats and high military authorities agreed that we would give three concerts on this occasion in Brussels, at the Palace fine arts, in Antwerp and at the military school of the Belgian army. Upon arrival in Brussels (a few days before the first concert), our command came up with a bold idea: what if at NATO headquarters?! Despite possible bureaucratic delays, the Russian ambassador to Belgium, Lukov, and the representative of the Russian Federation to NATO, Totsky, agreed on everything in a very short time. The concert was fantastic! "The Russian army demonstrated its most strong weapon, with which no iron can be compared," one of the Western diplomats later noted.
A year earlier, during our planned tour in Sofia, at least interesting story. A NATO session was just taking place there, on the agenda of which was the question of locating the bloc's bases on the territory of Bulgaria. So, people at the concert raised slogans: "One blood and one brothers." And with the first chords of the "Holy War" the whole hall rose in unison and listened to the song standing like a hymn ... A lump rolled up to the throat! The next day, one could hear everywhere: "Russia is closer to us!", "NATO bases are not needed!" Although we did nothing on purpose and did not provoke anyone - we simply presented our program: "Victory Day", "Katyusha", "Alyosha" ...
– How is the song about Alyosha, heartfeltly performed by the duet of Honored Artists of Russia Dmitry Bykov and Viktor Sanin, perceived in today's Bulgaria?
- From the position of the Slavic brothers. This is a common pain that causes sincere sympathy. Proof of this is always fresh flowers at the monument to the Soviet Soldier-Liberator. We also laid our wreaths. When we gave a concert in Prague at the Sazka Arena and 12,000 spectators did not let us leave the stage, does this also testify to our attitude towards Russia?! In the Czech Republic there are spectators who collect CDs, posters, constantly congratulating us on all holidays and birthdays, moving to concerts from city to city.
And you should have seen how they receive us in Poland! During the last trip we gave 25 concerts in 24 cities. And everywhere sold out. Bisy often became the third branch. Tickets are sold out via the Internet a few months before the tour. And when the audience goes home after the concert, many cars sound "Evening Bells", "Along the Piterskaya", "Smuglyanka" ...
- It's one thing - "Smuglyanka" resounding from a foreign car, another - in the residence of the vicar of St. Peter on Earth!
“The reception in the Vatican was great. It was in 2004. The concert was held in the Hall of Pope Paul VI, which can accommodate seven thousand spectators. The ensemble performed with a classic 75-minute program. As a gift to John Paul II, an excerpt from Verdi's Nabucco was sung on Italian and Polish folk song"Oka". During the performance of one of the songs, the entire hall watched in amazement as the assistants began to move the chair of the pontiff from the central aisle in our direction. It turned out that dad, spellbound, himself asked to bring him closer to the stage. The Italian impresario after the concert said that the Vatican had never seen such a thing!

BEYOND BORDERS AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS
– The ensemble has visited almost all continents, more than 70 countries. And performances in the language of the hosts, which Alexandrov initiated, have become a good tradition ...
– Yes, in Korean, French or, say, Arabic. In Morocco, the audience roared with delight as we sang the national anthem of that kingdom. The concert in Rabat at the Mohammed V Theater was attended by the brother of the Moroccan monarch Prince Moulay Rashid, other representatives royal family members of government and parliament. "Russians are coming!" - so the Moroccan newspaper "Le Matin" headlined an article dedicated to our tour.
- You probably learn lyrics in unknown languages ​​all night long?
– Work on learning the language in which to perform new song very serious and meticulous. Diplomats of the country to which we are going on tour help in it. The easily distorted meaning of foreign words and, consequently, the reaction of the public depends on phonetic and orthoepic nuances. But we are successful. For example, in North Korea I felt like a star. Songs in my performance were constantly played both on the radio and on television. I go into a store or walk down the street, and my voice is everywhere to meet me.
Last year in Chebarkul Chelyabinsk region command exercises and a meeting of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization were held. We prepared songs for it in the languages ​​of all participating countries, and started with the Chinese "The Red Army is not afraid of a long journey." And Chinese President Hu Jintao greeted us like his old acquaintances (the year before last he watched our two-hour concert in Beijing, after which he shook hands with each soloist)...
- Your team has a lot of fans abroad. What is the general audience like? Are there many young people among them?
- There are a lot of young people. Those who discover our country for themselves in defiance of politicians come to our concerts. We always perform live, without a soundtrack. And natural products are always in demand.

"MR. KALINKA"
– The ensemble strikes the imagination both with its art and equipment!
– Outfit has always been given great attention. Especially when traveling abroad. By the way, this happened for the first time in 1937 - the team went to Paris for International exhibition technology and art and received the Grand Prix there. We have always had the best tools. To get to work in the ensemble, many had only to dream of. In the 1960s, the competition for the choir was forty people per place (more than in any theater university!).
- They say that among others, even the young Iosif Kobzon came to the audition, who was then looked at, but ... they didn’t take it!
- Yes, but now he often performs with our team.
- How did you get into it?
- Twenty-one years ago, when I was in my fourth year at Gnesinka. I began to think about the future place of work, and my teacher advised me to go to the Alexandrov Ensemble, in which I myself worked at one time. Adopted on a competitive basis. At first - in the choir (sang the part of the first tenors), then he began to solo ...
- At various times, the foreign press awarded the title "Mr. Kalinka" to Viktor Nikitin, Evgeny Belyaev, Vasily Shtefutse. Now he is yours! But how are things going with the further relay race of generations?
- Not easy, but, as they say, the ice has broken. New soloists appeared: tenor Sergey Surkov, "velvet voice", baritone Boris Dyakov, bass Ivan Stolyar. True, if we compare "their" time and "ours", I can say: it was more difficult for us. The team was different, much larger (they flew on two planes on tour!). Only 90 people sang in the choir. Hence the legendary power of our songs!
We are waiting for the decision of the General Staff to increase the size of the ensemble. There are plans to create a vocal group within the ensemble with a completely new repertoire for young people. And "Kalinka" abroad, by the way, is still performed with applause from the first chord!
- She was applauded no less in Moscow, when you performed this song in a duet with Karel Got. But there were hard times in the history of the ensemble. It seemed that they forgot about him - they didn’t show on television, they didn’t support him financially ...
– Indeed, the 1990s were a “black streak” for the ensemble. Artists, including soloists, received a salary of 2-3 thousand rubles. But even then "patriotism" was not an empty word for us. Songs about the greatness of Russia and the courage of Russians inspire confidence in the future, unite people and remind us that we are a united and strong nation that must be reckoned with.

NEW STAGE
In 2005, the ensemble received a presidential grant, which helps to adequately pay for the work of artists, create new musical and dance works, sew colorful costumes, and purchase musical instruments... The Ministry of Defense helps us a lot. One of the first visits of the new Minister Anatoly Serdyukov after his appointment was to us, to the ensemble. From what he promised, much has already been done, is being done and, we hope, will be done. That is, the financial situation has changed. And creativity has always been on top. There is no other orchestra like ours in the country! Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it combines both a brass group and a wind group at the same time: balalaika, domra and right there trombones, pipes. Or take our choir as an example, in which there are wonderful operatic voices, every second one is a soloist.
The repertoire includes more than two thousand works: and folk songs, and opera classics, and complex polyphonic works a cappella. But we do not stand still, systematically organizing new projects. Festive concerts for women are becoming a tradition, the motto of which is the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: "The army knows: the main thing is love!" This year on March 6 on the stage of the Central academic theater Russian and foreign pop stars - Demis Rusos, Toto Cutugno, Dmitry Malikov, Philip Kirkorov, Dima Bilan, Nikolai Baskov, Alexander Marshal, Leonid Agutin, Igor Krutoy, Turetsky Choir, "Disco" Accident "," Chelsea "and many others. The premiere of "The Hussar March" from Imre Kalman's operetta "Princess of the Circus" performed by Boris Dyakov and Sergey Surkov took place at the concert.
- Oh, he's better than a glass of champagne! He was also appreciated by the audience in Zimny, singing after the concert near the exit from the theater.
- We performed with Riccardo Foli and Thomas Anders, with the "Leningrad Cowboys", recorded and filmed a video for the song "One, two - left" by Kim Breitburg and Sergey Sashin, designed for draft youth ...

WHAT DOES A PERSON NEED FOR HAPPINESS?
- As far as I know, the soloists of the ensemble also do not limit themselves to only one group. With whom have you collaborated and are you collaborating?
- Previously - with the Czech Variety Symphony Orchestra, with a big band, with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra "Russian Patterns", now - with the Kazan Philharmonic Orchestra. I work separately as a soloist.
- Did you meet your current wife at one of these solo concerts?
- Right. It was a performance at the House of Russian-German Friendship in Moscow on Malaya Pirogovka. I sang to German…
- Does your spouse work in the field of culture?
“In a construction firm, which is probably for the best. Elena and I have a daughter, Anna, who is a year and seven months old. Son Vladislav from his first marriage studies at the Aviation Institute, he is 19 years old (although he does not sing, he dances decently). Family and self-realization - what else does a person need for happiness?!
- Vadim Petrovich, you were invited to participate in cultural program winter Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998. What are your plans for February 2014?
- If they invite me, of course, I will come to Sochi! I really like your beautiful southern city, which disposes both to rest and to creative work. This is my second visit here in my entire life. The first one was a couple of years ago. I rested in the sanatorium "Rus" and performed at the residence "Bocharov Ruchey" at concerts organized on the occasion of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's meetings with the presidents of France and Germany. Then we worked in a team with Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Nadezhda Kadysheva. And now - the Winter, army song festival. Every meeting with Sochi is a holiday!
Viktor TERENTIEV.

Vadim Petrovich Ananiev(March 21, 1959, Kuibyshev, RSFSR) - Soviet and Russian singer, leading soloist of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Aleksandrov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005), member of the jury 1 th season of the All-Russian annual vocal competition among the subjects of the Russian Federation " New star". The owner of a soft lyrical tenor of a wide range, which allows him to be a permanent soloist of the songs "Kalinka" and "Katyusha" in the Ensemble's choir over the past decades.

Biography

Vadim Petrovich Ananiev was born on March 21, 1959 in the Kuibyshev region. His father was a rural veterinarian, his mother was a cook. Graduated with honors from a music school in piano. In 1977-1979 he served in the Strategic Missile Forces in Belarus, during which he played in a brass band.

After graduating from the conductor and choral department of the Kazan State Institute of Culture, Vadim Ananiev served as a soloist of the Yoshkar-Ola Musical Theater, and in 1984 he continued his profile education, entering the State Musical and Pedagogical Institute (now Russian Academy music) them. Gnesins, to the vocal faculty, to the class of the People's Artist of Russia, Professor Konstantin Pavlovich Lisovsky. It was on his advice that in the fall of 1987, Vadim Petrovich successfully took part in the competitive selection for the choir of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Aleksandrov, and in 1999 he became a soloist of the choir.

Over the past thirty years, as part of the ensemble's choir, he has constantly taken part in holiday concerts, tours in large and small cities of the Russian Federation, Europe, Asia, America, and has repeatedly been in the places of military conflicts of recent decades in the territories of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Syria as part of the choir.

In many domestic and foreign media, Vadim Petrovich is referred to as "Mr. Kalinka" for performing the solo part in a famous Russian song.

In 2004, Vadim Petrovich performed "Kalinka" and other famous songs for Pope John Paul II at an exclusive concert in honor of the 26th anniversary of his pontificate in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican and was highly appreciated for his performance skills, was awarded the silver medal of the Pontifical Council. At the invitation of the Chairman of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, People's Artist of Russia Vadim Ananyev took part in the meeting of Pope Benedict XVI with artists in the Sistine Chapel, which took place on November 21, 2009. The meeting was attended by 250 artists, sculptors, architects, writers, musicians, singers, theater and film directors from all over the world.

On December 25, 2016, due to the birth of his son, the third child in the family, he did not fly to a performance at the Khmeimim air base of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria, when the plane crashed and most of the choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble died. alive, except for Ananyev, soloists - baritone Boris Dyakov, bass Valery Gavva, artists of the choir - Roman Valutov and Vladimir Khlopnikov.

Family

• He is married and has four children (three sons and a daughter). Lives with his family in Moscow

Songs performed

• "Kalinka"
• "Katyusha"
• "Darkie"
• "Talyanochka (On a sunny meadow)"
• "Nightingales"
• "Oh dear..."
• "Steppe and steppe all around"
• "Serve Russia"
• "School Waltz"
• Modern version national anthem Russian Federation
• "Birch Dreams"