Иван Шмелёв

Ivan Dimitrievich Shmelev Soviet singer Born: 1912, Voronezh, Russian Empire Died: 1960, USSR After graduating from the seven-year school and factory school (where Ivan Dmitrievich began to practice singing in the choir), worked as a mechanic at a steam engine repair factory. Participating in factory amateur performances, he was noticed and sent to study at the Voronezh College of Music (now the Voronezh College of Music named after Rostropovich), which he graduated in 1935. Then he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of professor K.N. Dorliak. van Dmitrievich sang in the opera studio and on the stage (1938, at the Metropol cinema). Performed the jazz repertoire of L. Utesov. Toured in Voronezh at the Pervomaisk Open Theater and on the stage of the Garden of the Office of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (August, 1940). During the Great Patriotic War Ivan Dmitrievich was the soloist of the song and dance ensemble of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. Later he sang songs: "The train goes faster and faster", "In the foothills of Altai", "Behind the factory outpost", "Where are you, early morning?" He toured in Voronezh on the stage near the House of Officers (March 1957). In the last years of his life, Ivan Dmitrievich was a soloist of the All-Union Radio and USSR Gastro-Bureau.