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Alla Borisovna Pugacheva was born on April 15, 1949, in Moscow, Russia. Her father, named Boris
Mikhailovich Pugachev, was a shoe factory manager. Her mother, named Zinaida Arkhipovna, was
a housewife.
At the early age of 5, young Alla Pugacheva made her first public performance at the prestigious
Pillar Hall of Palace of Unions in Moscow. From 1956-1965 she studied piano and singing at the
music school No31. In 1965, she made her radio debut with the popular song 'Robot' on the
Moscow Radio. From 1965-1971 she studied singing and choir directing at Moscow College of
Music named after Ippolitov-Ivanov. From 1976-1981 she studied acting and directing at Moscow
Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS) from which she graduated as director.
In 1977 Pugacheva made her film debut in the title role in Zenshchina, kotoraya poyot (1977).
She also was a composer for that film under the nickname of 'Boris Gorbonos'. The film was a
major box-office hit with attendance of more than 60 million in the Soviet Union. Pugacheva was
named the best actress of the USSR for the year 1979. By that time she was already an
internationally regarded pop-singer, having awards and recognition from such international music
festivals as Sopot-78, MIDEM-1976, Zolotoi Orfei-75, and other. In 1997, she took part in
Eurovision festival. Pugacheva has been a strong supporter for humanitarian causes. She made
donations and performed charity concerts to help the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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Pugacheva performed and recorded over three
hundred songs over the course of her career. Her
international hit 'Million Roses' was written and
recorded in collaboration with Latvian composer
Raimond Pauls, who has been working with
Pugacheva on many other popular songs, and
made several concert programs together. She also
collaborated with such popular stars as Joseph
Dassin, Udo Lindenberg, Filipp Kirkorov,
Kristina Orbakaite, Vladimir Presnyakov,
and others. Pugacheva was awarded the State
Prize of Russia (1995) and received many other
awards. She was designated the Peoples Artist of
the USSR in December of 1991.
Alla Pugacheva has been the indisputable leader
in record sales in the USSR and in Russia, having
sold over 100 million albums and singles during
her career. Pugacheva has been helping many
young singers and actors to become professionals.
She is currently the Artistic Director and a host of
her own TV show titled 'Fabrika Zvezd'
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Mikhail Lomonosov is the father of the Russian
science and one of the most famous universities in
the world. Lomonosov was born in 1711 in
Arkhangelsk province. He began to read when he
was a little boy. He always wanted to study and
when he was nineteen he went to Moscow. He
entered the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy and six
years later, in 1736, he was sent abroad to complete
his studies in Chemistry and mining.
Lomonosov worked hard and became a great
scientist. He was the first Russian academician.
Lomonosov opened the first Russian chemistry lab.
He was a physicist, a painter, an astronomer, a
geographer, a historian and a statesman. In 1755
Mikhail Lomonosov founded Moscow University
which is now Moscow State University named after
him. Mikhail made research in electricity, gravity
and the character of colour. Lomonosov was also
the author of many odes and poems. He also
published a lot of scientific works, including the first
book on Russian grammar. Lomonosov died in 1965
but people still remember him.
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was born on the 9th
of March, 1934. He was born in the village of
Klushino in the Smolensk region.
Yuri was an active, brave and curious man. His
father was jack of all trades and he helped his
son when Yura made toy planes by hand. But
the war began. Yuri Gagarin and his mother,
father, brother and sister left their house and
had to live in a dug-out. After the war
Gagarin's family moved to Gzhatsk. Now it is
Gagarin. It was named after the first
cosmonaut.
In 1951 Gagarin graduated from a vocational
school in Lyubertsy near Moscow. Yuri Gagarin
attended an aeroclub and began to fly when
he was a student of a technical secondary
school in Saratov. In 1955 he entered a school
for pilots. Then he became a pilot and joined
the first group of cosmonauts. In 1960
Gagarin began to prepare for the flight into
space.
On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin flew into space
and spent 108 minutes there. It was the first
time in history that the Russian spaceship
"Vostok" with the man on board was in space.
After his flight he visited many countries and
saw millions of people. Gagarin became a Hero
of our country.
He died in 1968, but people always remember
the first Russian cosmonaut.
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