Tanich Mikhail Isaevich biography. Biography of Tanich Mikhail

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich(Tankhilevich) was born September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog in a Jewish family. His father's name was Isaac Samoilovich Tanhilevich (1902-1938). His life path was very thorny: in his youth he managed to take part in the civil war on the side of the Red Army, and at the age of only nineteen years the young man was appointed deputy head of the Cheka in Mariupol. After receiving his education - having studied at the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities - the talented young man becomes the head of the public utilities department in Taganrog. But the life of an energetic and promising man ended abruptly and tragically: he was accused of stealing socialist property on an especially large scale and, in accordance with the laws of that time, was shot according to the notorious “Stalinist lists.” Mom, Marina Panteleevna, also did not escape the sad fate - she was arrested. Thus, little Misha was left without both parents, and it was decided to send him to his maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, who lives in Rostov-on-Don.

From early childhood, Misha was distinguished by his intelligence and good abilities. At the age of four he began to read independently. Very little time passed - and the boy wrote his first poems. But it was not rhyming that became his main passion, but football, which replaced literally everything for little Misha. Having received a soccer ball from his father at the age of five, the boy simply “fell ill” with this game. They tried to introduce Tankhilevich Jr. to drawing, but the first attempts did not end very successfully, and the matter was abandoned. Since childhood, Mikhail could not tolerate his failures and losses; he had to become the first everywhere and in everything. Therefore, drawing did not find a response in his soul, unlike writing poetry, which he always did excellently.

Participation in the Great Patriotic War

Having moved to Rostov-on-Don with his maternal father at the age of fourteen, Misha Taniklevich graduated from the local high school in 1941. At the same time, the Great Patriotic War begins and finds the future famous poet right on the day he receives a certificate of secondary education. The next year, 1942, the guy joined the Komsomol and at the same time (according to other sources - in 1943) from the Kirov district military registration and enlistment office of the Rostov region, the young graduate received a summons to draft him into the ranks Red Army. First, he was expected to study at the Tbilisi Artillery School, and from June 1944, to fight on the fronts: the First Baltic and the First Belorussian. He was a gun commander in an anti-tank artillery brigade and marched with it from Belarus to the Elbe River in Germany. At the end of December 1944, Mikhail was seriously wounded; being shell-shocked, he showed no signs of life, and those around him decided that he was dead. It was only by luck that someone noticed that the guy was still alive, and Tanhilevich avoided the terrible fate of being buried alive along with his murdered colleagues in a mass grave. The military command noted the military merits of the young soldier and awarded him two orders: the Red Star and Glory III Degree.

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Conclusion

After the end of the war, Mikhail is going to start a new life and enters the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering. But the young man’s plans for the happy years of his student life were not destined to come true: in 1947 he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation (Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). The reason for such a serious accusation was the words of a guy uttered in a friendly company that the Germans had much better equipment and, in general, their way of life than the Soviet people. One of those present turned out to be not a friend at all and reported such dangerous words to the relevant authorities in those years.

Mikhail was convicted and sent to prison, and then to a camp near Solikamsk, for logging. The future famous songwriter spent a total of six years in prison. Moreover, he survived only because he was assigned to a brigade responsible for visual propaganda in the camp. All those who came with him and were engaged purely in logging died. Mikhail's return to normal life was facilitated by the amnesty introduced in 1953 after his death. However, he had to live another three years with his rights lost.

The beginning of a creative journey

After his release from the camp, Mikhail went to live on Sakhalin, because he did not yet have the right to return to Moscow. He got a job as a foreman at Stroytekhmontazh, and at the same time tried himself in a local newspaper, where he began publishing his poems. It was then that his pseudonym appeared - Tanich, with which he signed his “Sakhalin” poetry, and then left his new surname for the rest of his life and made it famous.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich - Russian poet and songwriter

In 1956, Mikhail was rehabilitated, which meant the opportunity to return to Moscow. Tanich settled in the capital of the USSR and began working in newspapers, magazines and radio. In 1959, the first collection of poems by this poet was published. One day Mikhail came to the publishing house "Moskovsky Komsomolets""And there he met another outstanding poet of those years - Jan Frenkel. Together they wrote the song “Textile Town”, which was performed by the most popular singers of the early 60s - Maya Kristalinskaya and Raisa Nemenova.

Tanich called his meeting at the publishing house significant and claimed that he did not know what would have happened to him and his work if he had not met Frenkel then. Interesting fact: the song “Textile Town” was so beloved by the public that one day the ice cream saleswoman from whom Tanich bought this delicacy sang it. Mikhail Isaevich was so happy about his success that he could not resist and boasted to the saleswoman that the author of the song was in front of her, but the woman did not believe him. Moreover, she rudely told the poet that he “didn’t show up” for the author of such a work.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich - Russian poet and songwriter

Career blossoming

Co-authorship with Ian Frenkel was the first of a series of successful collaborations by Tanich with other eminent and talented representatives of the creative intelligentsia: Vladimir Shainsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vadim Gamalia, Arkady Ostrovsky and others. Together with composer Yuri Saulsky, Mikhail Isaevich wrote a cheerful and rhythmic song “Black Cat”, which became not just a hit, but literally the calling card of the poet Tanich. Her influence on the popular culture of the USSR was so great that a black cat appeared in the videos “I’ll Buy You a House” by the group “Lesopoval” and “Knots” by Alena Apina. And Tanich’s song “Robot,” written together with composer Levon Merabov, became the radio debut of the then very young aspiring singer. Subsequently, Alla Borisovna preferred other authors, which caused Mikhail Isaevich regret. He was convinced that he was capable of composing many great hits especially for the Prima Donna.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich - People's Artist of the Russian Federation

In 1985, Mikhail Tanich rendered a huge service to the young man - he wrote a song with which he was able to debut on “Song of the Year”. At the same time, the poet began to collaborate with the most popular composers of those years - Raymond Pauls and David Tukhmanov. Especially for Alexander Barykin, together with Pauls, Tanich composed the song “Three Minutes”. Barykin was not imbued with this work and sang it dryly and without much emotion, and in the end he abandoned it altogether. He took “Three Minutes” and made it his hit. Mikhail Isaevich also wrote for what was already famous at that time, and for one that was gaining momentum. But the author especially liked Alena Apina: he really liked both her character and her manner of performance. He even called Apina “his singer.”

Mikhail Tanich (right) and

Lesopoval Group

Mikhail Tanich became the ideological inspirer and organizer of the group " Timber felling" This was his main project in the last years of his life and creative activity. The poet composed more than three hundred songs for him, and the group itself published sixteen albums (the last one was released after Tanich’s death). The leader of the group was composer and singer Sergei Korzhukov. Unfortunately, he died tragically in 1994, but this did not lead to the death of the musical group itself.

Group "Lesopoval" - ideological inspirer Tanich Mikhail Isakovich

A year later, Lesopoval resumed its activities with a new soloist, Sergei Kuprik, who seemed to breathe new life into this project. Alexander Fedorkov became the composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist in the updated group. True, not all listeners were delighted with the new composition of Lesopoval; some believed that in the new form the group would discredit its creator Mikhail Tanich.

Group "Lesopoval" and Tanich Mikhail Isaevich on tour in New York (1996)

Initially, “Lesopoval” was performed by Russian chanson. This is exactly what Tanich had in mind. But with the arrival of Kuprik and Fedorkov, the group began to more and more noticeably change the direction of their creativity. Soon they began to talk about the group almost exclusively as a group singing “blatnyak”. This word was first used in relation to “Lesopoval” by journalist Kapitolina Delovaya. Now Kuprik and Fedorkov have left the group, Tanich is no longer alive. But Lesopoval is still staying afloat, even releasing new songs from time to time. Fortunately, there is plenty of material for this - Tanich left behind a lot of unused poems.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich and the group "Lesopoval"

Personal life

Mikhail Tanich's first serious feeling was the German woman Elfriede Lane, whom he met during the war in the city of Bernburg. The guy was then twenty-one years old. Feelings flared up between the young people and a romance began, but it did not end with marriage, although at that time a law banning marriages with foreigners had not yet been adopted. After the war, Mikhail returned to the USSR, and Elfrida remained in Germany, in that part of the country that belonged to the Federal Republic of Germany. In the early 1980s, Tanich came to the GDR and wanted to see his first love, but this turned out to be impossible because the woman lived in Germany. Mikhail was able to see only Elfrida’s aunt, the former owner of the restaurant where the lovers met. He presented his aunt with a record of songs based on his poems as a gift.

Returning to the USSR, Mikhail married a girl named Irina. When the man was convicted and sent to prison, his wife did not faithfully wait for him, but decided to arrange her personal life, which resulted in a swift divorce. Having freed himself, Tanich once went to a party and saw a girl there singing songs based on his poems with a guitar. Moreover, the young lady did not know that the author of these poems was now next to her and said that she was singing to the poems of “our poet.”

Mikhail met a girl, sympathy arose between them, and soon the lovers got married. Tanich was then thirty-three years old, his chosen one, Lydia Kozlova, was eighteen years old. The marriage was formalized in Volzhsky; after the man’s rehabilitation, the family moved to Moscow. Lidia Nikolaevna is also a creative person and, like her husband, became a songwriter. The couple had two daughters - Svetlana and Inga, both bearing their mother's surname - Kozlova. In turn, the daughters gave Mikhail Isaevich and Lydia Nikolaevna two grandchildren - Lev and Veniamin.

Last years and death

Mikhail Tanich worked until his last days, even as a completely sick person. He suffered from kidney failure and cancer. Nevertheless, even having lost the opportunity to write independently, he, lying down and practically not moving, dictated his works and thus continued his active creative activity. His last book was the memoir “Music was Playing in the Garden,” published in 2000.

On March 29, 2008, Tanich took part in the “Chanson of the Year” award ceremony, held at the State Kremlin Palace. This was the last public event in the life of Mikhail Isaevich. It was very difficult for him then, but he gathered his last strength and went on stage.

On April 17, 2008, Mikhail Tanich passed away after a week in the hospital. Two days later he was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. The poet's grave is located behind the columbarium building on the 25th site.

Born in Taganrog. “My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew... He prayed constantly...” There was a family legend that the grandfather knew Sholom Aleichem well and “as if it was he who, during the pogroms in Odessa, burned down the library of the writer who had left for the States, entrusted for safekeeping.”

Mikhail Tanich's father, Isaac Samoilovich Tanhilevich (1902 - 1938), was a Red Army soldier during the Civil War, at nineteen he became deputy head of the Mariupol Cheka, then, after graduating from the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities, he became the head of the Taganrog Public Utilities Department; executed according to Stalin's lists with charges of theft of socialist property on an especially large scale (October 6, 1938). The mother was also arrested, and fourteen-year-old Mikhail settled with another grandfather, her father - the former chief accountant of the metallurgical plants of Mariupol Boris Traskunov, who now lived in Rostov-on-Don.

Mikhail studied at Taganrog secondary school No. 10. Tanich received a certificate of secondary education on June 22, 1941. Member of the Komsomol since 1942.

In May 1943 (according to other sources in July 1942), Mikhail was drafted by the Kirov district military registration and enlistment office of the Rostov region into the Red Army. He studied at the Tbilisi Artillery School. Since June 1944 in the active army. Senior sergeant, since August 1944 - commander of a gun as part of the 168th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 33rd separate Cherkassy anti-tank artillery brigade on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. Traveled from Belarus to the Elbe. On December 27, 1944 he was wounded; according to Tanich himself, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave after a severe shell shock. For military distinctions he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (order of the 92nd Rifle Corps dated January 29, 1945 No. 06) and the Order of Glory III degree (order to the troops of the 51st Army dated May 19, 1945 No. 129/n).

The award sheet with the nomination for awarding the Order of the Red Star dated January 18, 1945 stated: “In the battle for Clauspussen on January 12, 1945, Sergeant Tanhilevich’s gun destroyed 2 machine gun points and 2 dugouts under heavy artillery fire. In the defensive battles of Priekula on December 27, 1944, when Tanhilevich’s entire crew was knocked out by an enemy shell, the gun commander Tanhilevich, despite being wounded and concussed, did not leave the gun until help was provided to all the victims, being the last to leave the gun...”

The award sheet with the submission for awarding the Order of Glory, III degree, dated February 12, 1945, stated: “...on January 26, 1945, supporting the infantry, the crew was in the assault group for breaking through the defense of the pr-ka, being in infantry combat formations. The crew was given the task of breaking up the bunker, which was hindering progress. Comrade's weapon Tankhilevich was moved 150 m from the bunker. The firing point was destroyed. During the battle, a platoon commander, Comrade, was killed. Tanhilevich took command and completed the platoon’s assigned mission.”

After the end of the war, he entered the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute, from which he did not have time to graduate, because in 1947 he was arrested under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation). In a friendly company, he said that German radios and highways were better than Soviet ones; one of those who heard this reported on him. Tanich was “full of hopes and plans, just health, all life ahead with its thousand options.”

Tanich spent the six years he received in prison and then in a camp (near Solikamsk, at a logging site). Then he had 3 years of disqualification.

Many years later, he said in a television interview: “I served 6 years in one of the most terrible Stalinist camps for some nonsense, for an anecdote, a word. At first I was angry, but then I realized: they imprisoned me correctly. The state has the right and must defend itself.”

After liberation, he lived on Sakhalin and worked as a foreman at Stroymekhmontazh. Without being rehabilitated, he could not settle in Moscow, although his cousin lived there. He published his poems in the local press under the name Tanich.

He quickly divorced his first wife, Irina, who, according to his admission, did not wait for him, like Penelope, while he “wasted his logging term.” At thirty-three, he married eighteen-year-old Lydia Kozlova, whom he met at a party. She sang with a guitar, choosing suitable melodies, two songs based on his poems, calling him “our poet” and having no idea that the author was nearby.

Then, in 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated. The couple moved to Orekhovo-Zuevo, and after some time to Zheleznodorozhny. The first collection of poems was published in 1959. In the early 1960s, his song, co-written with composer Jan Frenkel, and performed by Raisa Nemenova and Maya Kristalinskaya, became very popular. Tanich met Frenkel in the corridor of Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tanich wrote that he does not know what his fate would have been like without this meeting. Later he found other co-composers, among whom were Nikita Bogoslovsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Vladimir Shainsky, Vadim Gamalia. Together with Yuri Saulsky, the poet wrote a hit, which became a kind of calling card for Tanich. Together with Levon Merabov, Tanich wrote the song “Robot”, with which the very young Alla Pugacheva made her radio debut.

Together with Yuri Antonov, Tanich wrote only two songs, but he called “Mirror” one of his favorites, and Antonov likes to end his concerts with their other common hit, “Don’t Forget” (“A Dream Comes True”).

Tanich called the patriotic song written together with Seraphim Tulikov one of his favorite songs. He completely rejected the conjuncture and spent a long time approaching this serious topic.

In 1985, Tanich helped Vladimir Kuzmin, who, thanks to a song based on his poems, first performed in the “Song of the Year” competition. In the mid-1980s, Tanich began composing poems for the then most popular composers, David Tukhmanov and Raymond Pauls. He also wanted to help Alexander Barykin, who with his group “Carnival” was the first to record the joint song “Three Minutes” between Pauls and Tanich. But Barykin apparently did not like the song; he sang it without any emotion. And “Three Minutes” became famous performed by Valery Leontyev. Igor Sarukhanov shot his first video clip for his own song “Guy with a Guitar,” the author of the lyrics was Tanich. In 1991, he wrote poems for Alexander Malinin’s song “New Star”.

Subsequently, Tanich collaborated with Alena Apina, whom the poet considered “his singer,” like Larisa Dolina, with composer Ruslan Gorobets, Arkady Ukupnik, Vyacheslav Malezhik, and continued his long-standing collaboration with Edita Piekha. He organized the group “Lesopoval”, the leader of which was the composer and singer Sergei Korzhukov, who died tragically in 1994. The group was reborn a year later thanks to the new soloist Sergei Kuprik and composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist Alexander Fedorkov, although, according to some, it discredited Tanich.

“Lesopoval” was the main project of Mikhail Tanich at the end of his life. The group released sixteen numbered albums (the last one after Tanich's death), the poet wrote more than 300 songs for them. After Korzhukov’s death, songs based on Tanich’s poems were written by both famous composers and band musicians. “Lesopoval” began to more often move away from the so-called Russian chanson; Tanich and Fedorkov wrote the song “There Was a Boy...” about a soldier who died in the Chechen war.

Tanich has been a member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1968, the author of almost twenty collections. He published the final collection of poems “Life” in 1998, at the same time he released the first song collection “Weather in the House”. In 2000, he published a book of memoirs, “Music was Playing in the Garden” (Vagrius Publishing House, “My 20th Century” series). Tanich wrote (or rather dictated) this book in the hospital, being already seriously ill.

Mikhail Tanich died on April 17, 2008 in Moscow, the cause of death was chronic renal failure. He was buried on April 19, 2008 in section 25 (behind the columbarium building) of the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

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Born on September 15, 1923 in Taganrog. He graduated from high school in Rostov-on-Don. The certificate was issued on June 22, 1941. In 1942, he was drafted into the active army.

He fought until 1945 on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. As part of the 33rd Anti-Tank Destroyer Brigade, he traveled from Belarus to the Elbe as the commander of an anti-tank gun. For the last 11 months he has been directly involved in battles. Awarded the Order of Glory, III degree, Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, 15 medals.

After the war, one night they came for a student of the Faculty of Architecture... and took him to the taiga for logging for a period of six years. I had to sit until I.V. Stalin’s death and return with a certificate prohibiting him from living in 39 cities of the country.

In 1955, in the city of Volzhsky, at Gidrostroy, Mikhail Tanich met his destiny - the girl Lida, who became the poet’s muse. The first poems appeared, the first publications in Moscow publications, the book “Return” (1959, Volgograd), and already in Moscow - the first songs. He worked with almost all famous Soviet composers and leading artists.

M.I. Tanich is a favorite author of well-known and popular songs, laureate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize (1997), laureate of the Anniversary competition “Song of the Year”, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of this program, almost all “Song of the Year” festivals, laureate of the National Music Award "Ovation" (1997). To the military awards of M. Tanich, the Order of Honor was added, which the poet and writer was awarded in 1998.

In recent years, M. Tanich wrote for the Lesopoval group, which he himself organized.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich(real name - Tanhilevich; September 15, 1923, Taganrog - April 17, 2008, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian songwriter.
Born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog.
Wife - Lidiya Nikolaevna Kozlova.
Daughters - Svetlana Mikhailovna Kozlova and Inga Mikhailovna Kozlova.
Grandchildren: Lev and Benjamin.
Mikhail Isaevich's father was a responsible employee in Taganrog (he was shot in 1938).
Mikhail Isaevich received his matriculation certificate on the day the Great Patriotic War began - June 22, 1941.
In 1942, he was drafted into the active army. He fought until 1945 on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. As part of the 33rd Anti-Tank Destroyer Brigade, he went from Belarus to the Elbe as the commander of an anti-tank gun. For the last 11 months he has been directly involved in battles.
Awarded the Order of Glory, III degree, Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, and 15 medals.
After the end of the war, he lived in Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the Institute of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, but did not manage to graduate.
In 1947, he ended up in the same prison as his father under Article 58, paragraph 10. Then - 6 years of transfers, camps, and logging.
In 1953, after Stalin's death, he was released from prison.
Began publishing in the 50s. Member of the Writers' Union since 1968.
M. Tanich worked with almost all famous Soviet composers and leading pop, theater and film artists. Composers and co-authors are Y. Frenkel, V. Shainsky, A. Ostrovsky, O. Feltsman, Y. Saulsky, V. Solovyov-Sedoy, N. Bogoslovsky, I. Nikolaev, R. Gorobets. Soloists - K. Shulzhenko, A. Pugacheva, I. Kobzon, M. Magomaev, E. Piekha, E. Khil, V. Leontyev, L. Dolina, A. Apina and others.
In total, Mikhail Tanich became the author of 15 books, including songs. The latter are dated 1998: “Life” (poems) and “Weather in the House” (songs), published for the poet’s anniversary.
M.I. Tanich is a favorite author of well-known and popular songs, laureate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize (1997), laureate of the Anniversary competition "Song of the Year", dedicated to the 25th anniversary of this program, almost all "Song of the Year" festivals, laureate of the National Music Award "Ovation" (1997). Awarded the Order of Honor (1998). In March 2001, he was awarded the title “Honored Artist of Russia.”
Mikhail Tanich's main project in recent years is the Lesopoval group (he wrote more than 100 songs for this ensemble).

None of the members of the musical group have been to prison; any stories sung by Lesopoval were written directly by Mikhail Tanich. Sergei Korzhukov was the first soloist and composer of the group. He wrote the music for more than 60 of the group's songs.

In 2008, the main ideologist of the team, Mikhail Tanich, passed away. The composition has been updated again. Tanich's wife became the artistic director - Lidia Nikolaevna Kozlova.

During the existence of the group, at least 21 albums were published, including two after the death of Mikhail Tanich.

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich died on the night of Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 03.10 (Moscow time) at the age of 85 in the intensive care unit of the Moscow Botkin Hospital.
On April 19, after a memorial service in the House of Actors, he was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Song filmography of M. Tanich:

1972 - “Big Change” - director Alexey Korenev;
1973 - “There Lived Three Bachelors” - director Mikhail Grigoriev;
1976 - “In secret to the whole world” - director Igor Dobrolyubov;
1977 - “The Magic Voice of Gelsomino” - director Tamara Lisitsian;
1981 - “Waiting” (television) - director Radomir Vasilevsky;
1982 - “4:0 in favor of Tanechka” - director Radomir Vasilevsky;
1983 - “White Dews” - director Igor Dobrolyubov
1984 - “Wedding of the Jays” - director Evgeny Ginzburg
1985 - “Dance Floor” - director Samson Samsonov

Awards and achievements:

Order of Honor (September 15, 1998) - for services in the field of culture
Order of the Red Star
Order of Glory III degree
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
Honored Artist of Russia (November 18, 2000) - for his great contribution to the development of national culture and art
People's Artist of Russia (September 15, 2003) - for great services in the field of art
Laureate of the Anniversary competition “Song of the Year” (1996)
Laureate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize (1997)
Winner of the National Music Award "Ovation" (1997)
Honorary citizen of the city of Taganrog
Honorary Professor of Rostov State University of Civil Engineering

Former members of the Lesopoval group:

Mikhail Tanich † - author of poetry, artistic director (1990-2008);
Sergey Korzhukov † - vocals, music author (1990-1994);
Sergei Dikiy - vocals (1994-1996);
Leonid Margolin - button accordion, keyboards, guitar (1995-1998);
Ruslan Kazantsev - vocals, choreography (1994-2000);
Sergey Kuprik - vocals, guitar (1994-2008);
Alexander Fedorkov - composer, arranger, keyboards, trumpet (until 2006).

The current composition of the Lesopoval group:

Volkov Stanislav Vladimirovich - vocals, guitar;
Velichkovsky Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich - vocals, bass guitar
Solovyov Vladimir Alimovich - choreography, accordion;
Veniamin Ignatievich Smirnov - choreography, percussion;
Loshakov Alexander Fedorovich - drums;
Rodionov Konstantin Aleksandrovich - keyboards, vocals;
Alipov Vladimir Nikolaevich - guitar, vocals;
Gontar Oleg Vladimirovich - keys, vocals;
Blinnikov Vladimir Nikolaevich - sound
Kolenikin Anatoly Yurievich - group director
Lidia Nikolaevna Kozlova-Tanich - artistic director of the Lesopoval group

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Name: Tanich Mikhail

Place of birth: Taganrog, Russia

Activity: Soviet and Russian songwriter

Marital status: married from 1958 to 2008

Mikhail Tanich is a legendary poet, composer, songwriter, whose biography and personal life is filled with ups, personal tragedies and compositions that have gone down in the history of Soviet and Russian music.

Childhood and family

The poet spent his childhood in Taganrog - it was in this city that Mikhail Tankhilevich was born into a Jewish family on September 15, 1923 (the songwriter had this surname at birth). Already at the age of 4, the boy learned to read, and soon began writing poems.

Mikhail Tanich with his family

The future producer showed great interest in football, which became even stronger after his father’s gift - a soccer ball. Mikhail Tanich also tried his hand at drawing, but quickly realized that this activity was very popular, so it was better to focus on poetry. Moreover, already at such a young age the poet realized that he was good at text compositions.

Mikhail Tanich in his youth

At the age of 14, Mikhail Tanich had to forget about most of his hobbies - his biography and personal life were saddened by the breakup of his family. His mother was arrested, and his father was a victim of execution, so the young songwriter had to go to his relatives in order to continue living after such a shock. The house of his maternal grandfather, who lived in Mariupol, becomes a haven for Mikhail Tanich for the coming years. A year after graduating from school (according to another version - 2 years later), he was drafted into the Red Army.

Mikhail Tanich

Arrest

After the end of the war, a native of the Donetsk province comes to Rostov-on-Don and becomes a student at the Civil Engineering Institute. Unfortunately, my studies did not reach the finish line due to my arrest. The poet disseminated information about the structure of German life, everyday life, and technology. He was charged with anti-Soviet agitation, but attention was paid to an ordinary student, most likely thanks to a secret informer from the institute.

The author of the poems spent 6 years in prison. The initial stage was limited to imprisonment in a cell, but over time he joined a group that was sent to logging. However, hard work was avoided, since Mikhail Tanich became part of the visual team. Release was determined by the death of Stalin, in connection with which many prisoners were released under an amnesty.

Works of Mikhail Tanich

Start of activity

Having freed himself, the poet revived his passion for poetry. In the mid-1950s, he lived on Sakhalin, where he made his debut as an author of works published on the pages of a local newspaper. His personal life was not going well at that time, so the poet devoted a lot of time to creativity. In the same publication, he first began to use the surname Tanich, and after moving to the capital in 1956, he officially approved the mentioned surname. About 10-12 months have passed since the start of the Moscow stage of life, when the songwriter released his own collection of rhythmically organized speeches.

National recognition

The composer considers his acquaintance with Jan Frenkel within the walls of the Moskovsky Komsomolets publication to be special. Through joint efforts, Mikhail Tanich’s first hit, “Textile Town,” was created.

Subsequently, the poet collaborated with many colleagues from the music workshop and created hits for Alla Pugacheva, Igor Nikolaev, Vladimir Kuzmin, Igor Sarukhanov, Edita Piekha, Larisa Dolina. A particularly intense working duet came out with Alena Apina, since he highly valued the artist as a professional and as a woman. Tanich often called Apina “his singer.”

Mikhail Tanich and Alla Pugacheva

It is difficult to list in one material hundreds of creations, the author of which was Mikhail Isaevich. Here are just a few hits that remain relevant to this day:

“A dream comes true”, Yu. Antonov
"Black Cat", "Bravo"
“I’ll buy you a house”, “Leoping”
“Yes-yes-yes-yes”, VIA “Jolly Fellows”
“The Ninth of May”, Soso Pavliashvili
“A soldier is walking through the city”, Lev Leshchenko
“Guy with a Guitar”, Igor Sarukhanov

Tanich with his wife

Lesopoval Group

“Lesopoval” is the brainchild of Mikhail Isaevich. Based on the stage of the biography of the songbook, the name of the group does not raise questions regarding the nature of its origin. There was a high probability of the project being closed after several years of existence due to the death of lead singer Sergei Korzhukov.

Tanich and the Lesopoval group

However, soon enough the group was restarted thanks to the appearance of Sergei Kupriku, who assumed the status of the voice of the group. Composer Alexander Fedorkov also influenced the successful rebirth. Tanich created over 300 compositions for the group, which were distributed over 16 albums. According to the idea of the initiator of music education, “Lesopoval” was supposed to become a conductor of Russian chanson. The journalistic wing characterized the group’s work much more simply, classifying their songs as “blatnyak”.

Personal life

German love

Mikhail Tanich had a rich biography and a segment of his personal life was not missed, although his first lover did not become his wife. We are talking about the German woman Elfriede Lana, with whom the poet was connected at the front, but the end of the battles put an end to relations between citizens of rival countries. Mikhail Isaevich returned to his homeland, and Mrs. Lane decided to stay in Germany.

Two spouses - one happiness

The first legal wife was compatriot Irina, but the marriage ended at the stage of the composer’s conclusion. But with the third love, Lydia Kozlova, the relationship developed much better, as did the marriage itself.

Tanich with his wife

Tanich was attracted by the manner in which his future wife performed songs written based on his works. The woman did not know that the authors of the poems were in the hall. And so an acquaintance began, which quickly grew into a wedding, and now Mikhail and Lydia are already legal spouses, and not participants in the party in Volzhsky, where their first meeting took place.

Tanich with his wife Lydia Kozlova

Subsequently, the couple had two daughters, who in the future will add two more grandchildren to the family. Actually, Mikhail Tanich’s third love became the crown of his biography and personal life, which brought two children into this world. Having established harmony and tranquility in the rear, the composer was able to devote more energy to creativity.

Tanich and daughter Inga

As a child, Mikhail Isaevich reacted sharply to defeats. For him, there was only one result in any endeavor - positive.
During the Great Patriotic War, the poet defended his Motherland in the Belarusian and Baltic directions. Having been seriously wounded, he barely survived. However, his fate could have been sealed back in 1944, when they were going to bury the fighter in a mass grave because they thought he was dead.
Tanich pulled out his second lucky ticket at a logging site - his involvement with the members of the brigade saved his life, since the prisoners who directly worked at the logging site died.
The sixteenth album "Lesopoval" was released after the death of the group's founder.

People's Artist of Russia
Mikhail Isaevich Tanich (Tankhilevich) was born on September 15, 1923 in Taganrog. Wife - Lidiya Nikolaevna Kozlova. Children - Kozlova Inna Mikhailovna, Kozlova Svetlana Mikhailovna. Mikhail Isaevich's father was a responsible employee in Taganrog (shot in 1938). Mikhail Isaevich received his matriculation certificate on the day the Great Patriotic War began - June 22, 1941. In 1942, he was drafted into the active army. He fought until 1945 on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. As part of the 33rd Anti-Tank Destroyer Brigade, he went from Belarus to the Elbe as the commander of an anti-tank gun. For the last 11 months he has been directly involved in battles. Awarded the Order of Glory, III degree, Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, and 15 medals. After the end of the war, he lived in Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the Institute of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, but did not manage to graduate. In 1947, he ended up in the same prison as his father under Article 58, paragraph 10. Then 6 years of transfers, camps, logging. In 1953 (after Stalin's death) he was released from prison and rehabilitated. Began publishing in the 50s. Member of the Writers' Union since 1968. Mikhail Tanich worked with almost all famous Soviet composers and leading pop, theater and film artists. Composers-co-authors - Y. Frenkel, V. Shainsky, A. Ostrovsky, 0. Feltsman, Y. Saulsky, V. Solovyov-Sedoy, N. Bogoslovsky, I. Nikolaev, R. Gorobets. Soloists - K. Shulzhenko, A. Pugacheva, I. Kobzon, M. Magomaev, E. Piekha, E. Khil, V. Leontyev, L. Dolina, A. Apina and others. In total, Mikhail Tanich became the author of 25 books, including songs. The latest dates back to 2007. Mikhail Tanich is a favorite author of well-known and popular songs, laureate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize (1997), laureate of the Anniversary Competition "Song of the Year", dedicated to the 25th anniversary of this program, almost all "Song of the Year" festivals, laureate of the National Music Award "Ovation" (1997). Awarded the Order of Honor (1998). In March 2001, he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia. 2003 - People's Artist of Russia. Honorary Citizen of Taganrog. Honorary Professor of the Construction University of Rostov-on-Don.
Mikhail Tanich's main project in recent years is the group "LESOPOVAL" (he wrote more than 300 songs for this ensemble).

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich passed away and remained with us and with all lovers of songs about life - as it is. He didn’t like pomp and couldn’t stand “show-offs.” A wise and real man, he lived his life together with the people - rejoicing in common joys and paining his soul for all the injustices of our imperfect life. Once he half-jokingly said: Life is a disgusting thing, but they haven’t come up with anything better. He left many poems for the songs of "Lesopoval" - the group, as they say, still has to sing and sing them! And for fans of the genre, listen and listen, and if you like it, sing along. On the anniversary of the death of Mikhail Tanich, the 16th album was released - “Look into my eyes”; Tanich’s life continues in his songs. Our Lesovalskaya life too. In 2010, the Moscow Shipping Company named the ship after Mikhail Tanich.

Famous songwriter, founder of the group " Logging", Mikhail Isaevich Tanich died on Thursday night (April 17, 2008 at 03.10 (Moscow time) at the age of 85 in the intensive care unit of the Moscow Botkin Hospital. On April 19, after a memorial service in the House of Actors, he was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.