11 Notable alumni of
St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts
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The St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts is 1464th in the world, 501st in Europe, and 51st in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from the St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Valery Leontiev
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- film actorcomposerpoetsingeractor
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Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Soviet and Russian pop singer, sometimes songwriter and actor whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996. He is known as one of the most prominent artists of Soviet and Russian music. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has recorded more than 30 albums, many of which sold millions of copies. The media refers to Leontiev as a megastar and a legend of the Russian stage.
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Ilya Prusikin
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- screenwritersingerrecord produceractortelevision producer
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Ilya Vladimirovich Prusikin is a Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, video director and screenwriter. He is best known as the front person and founder of Saint Petersburg punk-pop-rave group Little Big. He is also known under the stage name Ilich (Russian: Ильич), an in-joke referencing Vladimir Lenin's patronymic and Oblomov character.
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Roman Trakhtenberg
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- showmantheatrical directorcultural studies scholardirectorpresenter
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Roman Lvovich Trakhtenberg was a Russian radio host and actor.
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Batyrkhan Shukenov
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts
- Studied in 1979-1981
- Occupations
- singerpoetcomposerlyricistsaxophonist
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Batyrkhan Kamaluly Shukenov was a Soviet Kazakhstan and Russian singer, musician, composer, and poet. Shukenov was co-founder and lead singer of the Kazakh-Russian pop music group A-Studio from 1987 until 2000. After leaving the group in 2000, he began his solo career.
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Yelena Drapeko
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts
- Studied in 1966-1968
- Occupations
- actormember of the State Dumapolitician
- Biography
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Yelena Grigoryevna Drapeko is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is also a member of the State Duma since 2000.
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Sergey Chigrakov
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristpoetsinger
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Sergey Nikolayevich "Chizh" Chigrakov is a Russian rock performer and songwriter. Most of his current songs are recorded with his band, Chizh & Co.
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Sonya Tayurskaya
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Sofiya Alekseevna Tayurskaya is a Russian vocalist for the punk-rave group Little Big.
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Maksim Pezhemsky
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Maksim Pezhemsky is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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Iskra Mihaylova
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- politician
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Iskra Mihaylova is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Bulgaria who has been a Member of the European Parliament since July 2014. She is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
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Shimon Iakerson
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- historianHebraistorientalistbibliologistphilologist
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Shimon Mordukhovich Iakerson is a Russian scholar specializing in medieval Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula.
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Zhirayr Agavelyan
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University for Culture and Arts
- Studied in 1984-1989
- Occupations
- directorwriterscreenwriterpainteractor
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Zhirayr Agavelyan, is an Armenian TV director, artist, actor, writer, TV scenarist, musician, and member of Artists’ Union of Armenia (2015).
