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Alexander Vasilievich Novikov(October 31, 1953, Iturup, Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Region, USSR) - Russian poet, songwriter in the genre of urban romance, artistic director of the Ural State Variety Theater.

During his creative activity, Alexander Novikov wrote more than four hundred songs, including “Remember, girl? ..”, “Cab”, “Chansonette”, “Street Beauty”, “Ancient City”, which have long become classics of the genre.

His discography currently includes more than 20 numbered albums, 10 live albums, 8 video discs, as well as several collections of poems and songs.

Alexander Novikov is a laureate of the national Ovation award in the category Urban Romance (1995), a multiple laureate of the Chanson of the Year award. (from 2002 to 2017).

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Biography

Childhood and youth

Born on October 31, 1953 on the Iturup Island of the Kuril Archipelago, in the village of Burevestnik. Father is a military pilot, mother is a housewife. For the first 2 years of his life, Novikov and his family lived on Sakhalin, then for some time he lived in the Latvian village of Vaynode, then for ten years in the city of Frunze, and in 1969 Novikov moved to the city of Sverdlovsk, where he continues to live and work to this day.

Sasha Novikov grew up as a very smart boy. Already at the age of 6 he was impressed by the lyrics of Sergei Yesenin, and by the third grade he had read almost all Russian classics, including the novel War and Peace. However, he studied poorly at school, did not observe discipline, and already in the 4th-5th grade Novikov was expelled from the ranks of the pioneers. In everyday life, the future musician was an open anti-Soviet.

Novikov also showed his temperamental character in boxing and sambo.

Passion for music to the young Alexander Novikov came in 1967 under the impression of watching the film "Vertical" with the participation of Vladimir Vysotsky, who performed 5 of his songs in the film. As a student at UPI, he performed as part of the institute's VIA "Polymer". He was expelled from the institute for performing the song "The Beatles" at one of the institute's events.

In 1971, he received his first term for a fight in a restaurant. Novikov and his friend stood up for the waitress against an opponent who refused to pay and used physical force against her. The opponent himself then ended up in the hospital, and the waitress got his watch, which Novikov and a friend, having taken it out of the pocket of an unconscious opponent, gave it to her. Novikov was given a suspended sentence for a year with mandatory involvement in labor (popularly "chemistry"), during which he built the Public House in Nizhny Tagil.

In 1980, he created the Rock Polygon group, where he performed as a soloist, guitarist and songwriter. The songs were performed in the styles of rock and roll, reggae and new wave with elements of punk rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock. The texts were distinguished by the spirit of philharmonic. The group recorded two self-titled albums in (in the official publication for the year, it is erroneously indicated as ) and 1984.

In 1981, he founded the Novik Records recording studio, where not only Novikov's albums were recorded, but also many Sverdlovsk musicians - in the future, Chaif, Agatha Christie and others.

In 1984, Novikov sharply departed from rock music and on May 3rd recorded the famous album "Take me, cabman". The musicians of the Rock Polygon took part in the recording, including Aleksey Khomenko and Vladimir Elizarov.

Arrest

On October 5, 1984, Novikov was arrested, and in 1985, by the verdict of the Sverdlovsk court, he was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 10 years - under Art. 93-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Officially - in connection with the activities for the manufacture and sale of counterfeit electronic musical equipment. However, in his interviews, A. Novikov repeatedly noted that he was imprisoned precisely for the album “Take me, cabman”, referring to the case that began with the document “Expertise on the songs of Alexander Novikov”, which contained reviews of each song from the album “Take me me, cabbie." As a result of this examination, it was decided that:

The examination was carried out by the composer Evgeny Rodygin, a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, a member of the editorial committee of the journal "Ural" Vadim Ocheretin, and a representative of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR V. Olyunin.

In the camp, Alexander Vasilyevich wrote most of his best poems, including “Bench lyrics”, “I got pain and salt into my wounds ...”, “Guitar and barrel organ”, “We will not see you soon ...”, “Gypsy”, “ Four teeth”, “Wife”, “The night is rammed right through by a star…” and others. Also, while still in the SIZO cell, Novikov created the play-fable “Komarilla”, in which, in a comic form, the whole picture of the court is presented, and real people involved in the poet’s “case” are shown under the masks of animals.

Subsequently, in 2012, the autobiographical book Notes of a Criminal Bard was published, covering the segment of Alexander Novikov's life spent in the camp.

Liberation and further developments

In August 1991, he spoke out against the State Emergency Committee.

In 1994, together with director Kirill Kotelnikov, he made a documentary film about the Boney M. group and its creator Frank Farian "Oh, this Farian!" ("Oh, this Farian!"). Filming took place in Luxembourg and Germany, the film includes Farian's unique interviews and materials from his personal archive. However, the film was never shown on Russian television.

On January 24, 1998, he took part in a gala concert in honor of the 60th anniversary of Vladimir Vysotsky, held at the Olimpiysky sports complex. Among the three dozen artists, Novikov is one of the few who had the honor of performing two songs by the legendary singer-songwriter at once: “Song about the informer” and “Big Karetny”. The famous writer Fyodor Razzakov in the book “Vladimir Vysotsky. I will definitely be back…”

The idea [of the concert] was doomed from the start. It's one thing to sing "Old songs about the main thing", and quite another - the songs of Vysotsky. Therefore, only two or three performers (Alexander Novikov, "Lesopoval", "Lube") managed, if not closer to the author's version, then at least not spoil it. All the other participants in the concert did not cope with this.

On June 16, 2003, Alexander Novikov was awarded the highest church award - the Order of St. Prince Daniel of Moscow for his services in the construction of the Church-on-the-Blood in Yekaterinburg. Since 2004, President of the 400th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty Foundation in the Urals.

On June 24, 2010 he was appointed artistic director of the Yekaterinburg Variety Theatre. Having become the artistic director of the theater, Novikov first of all banned the play "The Blue Puppy", in which he saw signs of propaganda of pedophilia.

These vuvuzelas of homosexuality, looking at the world through a walleye, which they always have for some reason in a bulging state ... So, through these walleyes, any healthy event and a normal act seem to them an attack on their mythical homosexual rights, growing directly from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Alexander Novikov

After this case, the expression "vuvuzelas of homosexuality" gained a lot of popularity on the Internet.

On October 28, 2010, a new album by Alexander Novikov was released on the verses of the poets of the Silver Age, in the recording of which Maxim Pokrovsky took part, performing together with Novikov a song based on the verses of Sasha Cherny "Tararam". Alexander Vasilyevich described the result of his work on the creation of this album as follows:

The disc "Pineapples in Champagne" is a gallery of whimsical and unique jewels of the "Silver Age" poetry. I made a musical setting for each of them. Five years of fine jewelry work

Participant of the annual National Award Chanson of the Year in the Kremlin.

In 2014-2015 he was a member of the jury of the TV show "Three Chords" and repeatedly performed on its stage.

In December 2016, Novikov was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud). On December 23, he was sent by the court for two months under house arrest. According to investigators, Novikov and former Deputy Minister of Economy of the Sverdlovsk Region Mikhail Shilimanov collected about 150 million rubles from shareholders in the construction of the Queens Bay cottage settlement in Yekaterinburg, and then transferred this money to their accounts. The construction of the village was stopped, the law enforcement officers estimated the amount of damage at 35 million 627 thousand rubles. In January 2017, being under house arrest, he left Russia for the UAE on vacation. Returned to Baptism. Gave a press conference on his return https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_vZPA_J-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMwpTb0jNyk

Awards (Chanson of the Year)

Creation

Most famous songs

Discography

• 1983 - Rock polygon (Alexander Novikov and the Rock Polygon group) (previously not officially published, in 2008 it was included in the collection "Alexander Novikov. MP3-series" with design errors and a shortened version)
• 1983 - Take me, cab driver (the songs on the 1983 album are slower than those on the 1984 album) (11 songs)
• 1984 - Rock Polygon II (Alexander Novikov and the Rock Polygon group)
• 1984 - Take me, cabbie (originally called "Vostochnaya Street") (18 songs)
• 1990 - Second concert after release (not officially released)
• 1990 - I'm in Yekaterinburg (Alexander Novikov and the group "Grandchildren of Engels") (magnetic album)

• 1991 - Take me, cabbie (Alexander Novikov and the Khipish group) (9 songs)
• 1993 - Necklace of Magadan
• 1993 - Urban Romance (recorded in 1992)
• 1993 - In a provincial restaurant ( Alexander Novikov, "Grandchildren of Engels", "Khipish") (Some songs have already sounded in the magnetic album "I'm in Yekaterinburg", and the rest of the songs were already recorded in 1992)

Books

• 2001 - “Take me, cabman ...” (poems and songs)
• 2002 - "The Bell Tower" (poems and songs)
• 2011 - "Street Beauty" (collection of lyrical poems)
• 2012 - "Symphony of the Court" (collection of lyrical poems)
• 2012 - "Notes of a criminal bard" (autobiographical book)

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The song direction, known in our country as chanson, is superbly represented by one of its brightest adherents and creators - singer Alexander Novikov. It is impossible to imagine this genre without his famous "Chansonette" or everyone's favorite "Take Me, Cabbie". The talents of Alexander Novikov today are appreciated by numerous listeners and fans, as well as by representatives of the music industry. Personal life of Alexander Novikov- The 62-year-old chansonnier - still continues to beat with a bang, he is in no hurry to stop at what has been achieved, especially since he still feels enough strength in himself for active and vigorous activity and the implementation of new creative plans.

The biography of Alexander Novikov is connected with the Kuril Islands (or rather, with the island of Uturul), where the son of a military pilot and a simple housewife first saw the light. The nomadic profession of the father shook the future chansonnier a lot after his parents in our vast Motherland. At the age of three, the boy saw Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, and then the family settled in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). Passion for music goes back to the teenage stage in the biography of Alexander Novikov. The film "Vertical" had a huge impact. The singer still remembers his first guitar, forever capturing in his memory not only its appearance and smell, but also its cost. Already unloved by the authorities because of his unwillingness to join the Komsomol, Alexander Novikov further aggravated the situation by getting carried away by then banned (and therefore very popular among young people) rock. Three times the future singer tried to get a higher education in different universities, but all three times it remained unfinished.

After a short time, Alexander Novikov, who not only played rock, but also made high-quality musical equipment with his own hands, literally fell in love with the style of urban romance. However, the very first album released was practically the cause of a long prison sentence, where, according to Alexander Novikov himself, he filled in all the gaps in education with real life experience. Of the 10 awarded, the singer served 6, without complaining and asking for concessions. Having been released in 1990 due to the lack of corpus delicti, Alexander Novikov plunges headlong into work. That is why today more than one hundred of his songs are known, and he is also the head of the Yekaterinburg Variety Theater.

In the personal life of Alexander Novikov, the central place is given to his beloved wife, who has been by her side for almost three decades, experiencing difficult times with her husband, and difficulties, and the joys of new creative victories - Maria. She gave the chansonnier two children - son Igor and daughter Natalya, whom she herself had to raise. Today, the children of this married couple are quite independent, having built their careers in their chosen field of life. Igor is the owner of a photo studio, and at the same time his father's assistant in the construction business. Natalia is generally a multifaceted personality with several higher educations. According to the first, she is a designer, according to the second, she is an art critic, and while on maternity leave with her little son, she graduated from another university. Alexander Novikov is a very pious person, and his faith is manifested not only in church attendance and generous alms, which he can now afford, but also in the active construction of churches or the casting of bells.

Alexander Vasilyevich Novikov saw the world on October 31, 1953 in a rather unusual place. It was a small village Burevestnik, which was located on the Iturup Island of the Kuril Archipelago. The father of the future chansonnier worked as a pilot, and his mother raised the children.

The Novikov family moved very often. He lived on Sakhalin and in Vayneda, in Frunze and Sverdlovsk. The boy went to school in Bishkek, and graduated from it already in Sverdlovsk. In total, the boy changed four schools.

Sasha was a very difficult boy. He read well, at six he knew by heart a huge number of Yesenin's poems. By the third grade I had read all the masterpieces of Russian classics. However, he hated school, so there were only triples in his report card. The character of the boy was rebellious: he was given bad marks for behavior, made comments, expelled from the pioneers. The grown-up Sasha did not join the Komsomol on principle because of his political convictions. But for a long time he was very successfully engaged in sambo and boxing, was fond of music, tried to write songs.

After he graduated from school, he entered and studied in turn at three institutes: polytechnic, mining and forestry. However, the guy was expelled from each higher educational institution. Because of his anti-Soviet beliefs, Sasha was under the supervision of the authorities from an early age.

Prison terms in the biography of Alexander Novikov

Few people know, but in the fate of Alexander there were many terrible events that dramatically changed his life.

The biography of Alexander Novikov is replete with prison terms. He received the first of them at the age of eighteen for a brawl. The guy stood up for the waitress, who refused to pay for the order. Alexander and his friend beat the bully, gave the girl his watch as a debt. The term, however, received a conditional, but with mandatory occupational therapy.

After serving his sentence, the guy organized his own ensemble "Rock Polygon", in which he released a couple of albums.

In the eighties, Alexander became the owner of a recording studio, where Sverdlovsk celebrities of that time recorded their song compositions. However, he soon preferred to perform with songs in restaurants rather than business. Sasha worked as a coach in a sports club and produced high-quality musical equipment.

Due to the last part-time job, Novikov received a second prison term. Officially for the theft of state property on an especially large scale, and unofficially for anti-Soviet songs. It was not possible to get off with a suspended sentence, because the guy refused to betray his songs, the sentence was 10 years of a hard laborer.

In the zone, the singer was respected and offered comfortable conditions of imprisonment, for example, to work as a librarian. Novikov resolutely rejected these proposals and worked, like everyone else, at the felling and construction sites. For this he enjoyed prestige among the prisoners.

It was in the camp that his famous hits in the chanson style and the humorous fable "Komarilla", ridiculing the corrupt court, were written. And in 2012, the book “Notes of a Criminal Bard” was published, in which the author described all his misadventures.

Novikov served six years and was released on probation. A year later, his case was reviewed, the sentence was canceled, because no corpus delicti was found in it. Novikov was fully acquitted.

Beloved wife of Alexander Novikov

When Novikov was arrested for the second time, his beloved woman remained at large. The wife of Alexander Novikov did not betray her beloved and did not turn away from him, she faithfully waited for him from the places of detention. The name of this beautiful woman is Maria Novikova.

Alexander's personal life is not replete with stories about his love affairs or numerous connections with fans. Novikov is monogamous, so in his interviews he invariably says a lot of kind words about his Mary, dedicates songs and poems to her.

The wife does not betray the singer, patiently waits and forgives him a lot. So she forgave her love affair with the young singer Natalya Sturm. Novikov became her producer in 1993. The couple is credited with a love affair, which ended with Natalia's escape from Alexander in 1997.

After he was acquitted, the singer wrote his hits and toured, filmed documentaries and was appointed artistic director of the Variety Theater in Yekaterinburg. He became the head of the Ural fund "400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty."

Awarded the highest church award, several times nominated for "Chanson of the Year". But he proudly refused the title of People's Artist several times.

The third time he was accused of fraudulent activities in 2016. An investigation is underway in this case.

Daughter and son of Alexander Novikov

When Novikov got to the zone, his wife raised the children alone. The son and daughter of Alexander Novikov are now quite adults.

Daughter Natasha is a talented designer. Even in her childhood, she drew beautifully and hoped to be a fashion designer. Her talent was noticed and appreciated by Vyacheslav Zaitsev himself. Now she helps her father by designing covers for his CDs.

Novikov's eldest child's name is Igor. He is a talented photographer and owner of his own photo studio. Igor respects his father and actively helps him in the construction business.

Friendly family of singer Alexander Novikov

The famous chansonnier admits that he is surprisingly rich. The family makes Alexander Novikov rich.

My wife works in the Ural Personnel Center, she is a geologist by education. She works not for money, but because she loves her job.

Recently, a universal favorite has appeared in the Novikov family. Daughter Natasha gave birth to Alexander's grandson.

All family members are extremely devout.

Alexander Vasilyevich Novikov was born on October 31, 1953 in the Sakhalin Region to the family of a military pilot and a housewife. At the age of sixteen, the future chansonnier left for the city of Yekaterinburg, which at that time was Sverdlovsk. He lives in this city to this day, holding the position of artistic director of the Yekaterinburg Variety Theater. Not so long ago, Alexander Novikov released an autobiographical book, Notes of a Criminal.

The artist has repeatedly won various awards, for example, in 1995 he was awarded the national Ovation award in the Urban Romance nomination. Repeatedly, Alexander Novikov was also awarded the Chanson of the Year award.

In 1980, Novikov created the Rock Polygon musical group, in which he was also a soloist, playing, and also wrote songs. The group's work, according to critics, was quite eclectic for that time - some songs could be called rock and roll, while others - even reggae and punk rock. A year after the creation of the "Rock Polygon", Alexander Novikov organizes a recording studio, giving it his name - "Novik Records". In this studio, albums were recorded not only of the owner and founder, but also of such musical groups as Chaif ​​and Agatha Christie.

Criminal prosecution of the artist

However, not everything was smooth in the artist's creative career. In the mid-80s of the last century, Alexander Novikov was convicted by the Sverdlovsk court under article 93-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. According to the court verdict, the artist had to spend 10 years in prison. The artist was arrested in the fall of 1984. Shortly before that, he released the album "Take me, cabman." Although musicians from the Rock Polygon, in particular Aleksey Khomenko and Vladimir Emelianenko, participated in the recording of this album, it was obvious that the group had sharply moved away from performing rock music.

The musician, who became popular after the release of his first album, was accused of selling counterfeit.

The criminal investigation was due to the fact that Alexander Novikov, in addition to his creative activity, was engaged in the manufacture and sale of electromusical equipment. The criminal case was initiated under Article 93-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, that is, "repeated theft of state or public property on an especially large scale." It is worth noting that Andrei Razin, the producer of the extremely popular at that time pop group Laskovy May, was also accused under the same article in 1989, who was accused of embezzlement of state property on an especially large scale. The producer was convicted of selling "left" tickets to the concert performances of his group. The total damage from the actions of Razin, according to a number of domestic media, exceeded 8 million rubles.

The verdict in the case of Alexander Novikov was handed down in 1985, but 5 years later, according to the Decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the artist was released. Some time later, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruled to cancel the sentence due to the lack of corpus delicti.

Alexander Novikov
Poet. Composer. Performer of songs in the genre of urban romance. Artistic director of the studio "Novik - Records".
Born on October 31, 1953 in the Kuril Islands, on the island of Iturup, the village of Burevestnik in the family of a military pilot, his mother is a housewife. In 1969 he moved to the city of Sverdlovsk, which then, in defiance of everyone, called Yekaterinburg. He flatly refused to join the Komsomol, criticized the Soviet regime, for which from his youth he was under special control of the authorities.

In 1970 he graduated from secondary school No. 110 in Sverdlovsk. He studied in turn at three universities: the Ural Polytechnic, Sverdlovsk Mining, Ural Forest Engineering, and was expelled from all of them for various reasons.

In the late 70s he was fond of rock music. In 1975-1979 worked as a musician in the restaurants "Ural dumplings", "Malachite", "Cosmos". In 1981, he created the Novik-records studio and the Rock-Polygon group, with which he recorded an album of the same name. The concert activity of the group took place in a semi-legal way, however, like all rock bands at that time. At the same time, he launched the production of home-made electrical musical equipment, which surpassed all domestic samples in quality and, thanks to this, was in great demand throughout the country. The equipment was analogous to foreign and differed little from it, both in appearance and in sound. Some examples of it still work today. Also in 1980-1984. worked as an instructor of industrial training in a sports and technical club.

In 1984, he abruptly moved away from rock music and, unexpectedly for everyone, recorded his famous album "Take Me, Coachman". The following musicians took part in the recording of the album: A. Khomenko, V. Elizarov, S. Pyankov, Yu. Abramov, V. Chekunov, S. Kuznetsov. The recording was made clandestinely in the Palace of Culture of the Uralmash plant, with the silent consent of Z. A. Milyavsky, the director of the House of Culture, for which the whole group is grateful to him and considers this a direct contribution to the creation of the legendary "Cabman", which broke all records of popularity and the scale of replication. Immediately after the release of the album, he came to the attention of the ideological sector of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB. At the direction of the top party leadership, the musician was immediately put under frank surveillance, his car was constantly "herded" by the KGB "outdoor", telephone conversations in the apartment were tapped, spies - "well-wishers" appeared at the neighbors for a while.

On October 5, 1984, in the morning he was seized in the middle of the street by people in civilian clothes, arrested and placed in SIZO No. 1 in Sverdlovsk. A criminal case was opened, which began with a document called "Expertise on the songs of A. Novikov." The document contained reviews of each of the songs on the album "Drive Me, Cabbie", written in an insultingly libelous tone, and a general summary, the essence of which was that "the author of the above songs needs, if not psychiatric, then certainly prison isolation" ! Compiled and signed, at the behest of the relevant authorities, composer Yevgeny Rodygin - the author of the songs "Oh, curly mountain ash, white flowers" and "New settlers are going through the virgin land", a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR Vadim Ocheretin, head of the department of culture V. Olyunin. However, later seeing that the case was acquiring an undesirable political coloring, the investigation refused to bring A. Novikov to criminal responsibility for the songs and went along the path of fabricating a case for "manufacturing and selling electrical musical equipment."
In 1985, by the verdict of the Sverdlovsk court, he received 10 years in a high-security camp. All attempts to put pressure on him in order to obtain repentance and renunciation of the written songs and poems, being in the camp, he endured proudly and with dignity. In the camp he refused any indulgence, from work in a club, library, etc. He worked on an equal footing with all the prisoners, at the most difficult work in cutting wood, rafting and construction, for which he won the love and respect of the prisoners of Russia. He served an undeserved sentence in the institution N-240-2/2 in the city of Ivdel in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. In 1990, by the Decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, he was released, and later the Supreme Court of Russia overturned the sentence "due to the lack of corpus delicti". Recognizing thereby that the 6 years spent by the poet in prison were the result of a fabricated case.

Since 1990, Novikov has been the artistic director of the Alexander Novikov Song Theater, the Novik-records studio. Alexander Novikov was the first who, back in 1993, publicly condemned the shameful practice of television workers to take money from performers in the form of bribes for playing clips. He was the first to speak publicly about the clan system in the domestic show business and on television, the degradation of the Russian stage. As a result, he was included in the unofficial lists of "persons undesirable for display", which further added to the popularity and interest in the personality of A. Novikov on the part of ordinary citizens of Russia.

In 1994, together with the best Ural craftsmen, he developed models and cast bells at his own expense as a gift for the Temple at the site of the execution of the Romanov family. The bells are unique not only in sound and appearance, but also wonderful works of art and could be displayed in any museum. Each bell has a name - according to the names of members of the royal family. The smallest is Tsarevich Alexei, the largest (weight about 400 kg) is Nicholas II.

In November 2000, A. Novikov handed over these bells to the men's monastery built on the site of the first burial of the Royal Family at Ganina Yama near Yekaterinburg, since the Temple at the place of execution had not yet been built.

In 2000, the visit of Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' to Yekaterinburg took place, during which the Patriarch blessed the construction, and His Eminence Vincent, Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye blessed the erection of A. Novikov’s bells on the belfry of the church at the place of the first resting place of the royal family on Ganina Yama, where they call to this day.

In 2002, with the blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church and with the support of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, E. E. Rossel, he began holding a charity event "Bells of Repentance" to raise funds for casting bells for the Church on the Blood in the name of All Saints in the Russian Land Resplendent located at the site of the execution the Romanov family. At his own expense, he cast part of the bells, which on October 6, 2002 were consecrated by His Eminence Vincent, Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye and erected on October 17 on one of the four belfries of the Temple. The end of the action - July 16, 2003, the day of the opening of the Temple. A total of 14 bells are planned to be cast. The weight of the largest ones is 1.3, 2.5, 4 and 8 tons. The bells are distinguished by their unique artistic design. In addition, icons are cast on each bell, and several icons on large bells. The bells were made by Pyatkov & Co. in Kamensk-Uralsky.

During his creative activity, A. Novikov created more than two hundred songs, several dozen of which are already classics of the genre today ("Do you remember, girl? ..", "Cab driver", "Chansonette", "Street beauty", "Ancient city", etc. .)

In 1994 he recorded the song "Chansonette", according to which, according to his own script, together with the director K. Kotelnikov, he shot a video. A unique and the first clip in Russia, in which the real image is combined with the drawn one. The video does not use any computer technology. All animation is done by hand. In addition, he shot a number of clips: "Street Beauty", "Hugging a Beauty" (directed by G. Kropivsky), "Reds and Whites", "Let you be drunk by others", "Cab", "Catherine blues", etc. Scenarios of all without exception, the clips were invented and written by A. Novikov himself. As well as several documentaries: "I just got out of the cage", "Remember, girl?", "Gop-stop show".

In 1995, A. Novikov with director K. Kotelnikov shot a large documentary film about the Boni M group and its producer and composer Frank Forian - "Oh, this Forian!" Filming took place in Luxembourg and Germany. The film is very necessary and interesting, but it was not shown on the central TV channels.

In 1995, A. Novikov became the winner of the national award "Ovation" in the nomination "Urban Romance". In 1997, he wrote songs to the verses of S. Yesenin and released the album "Sergey Yesenin", which, according to music critics, art critics and public opinion, is the most successful and significant work in all the years since the death of the great Russian poet.

Having written more than 200 songs, releasing more than a dozen records, A. Novikov created a completely unusual genre that does not fall under any classification - the genre of the most modern urban romance, elevated to the level of high art.

Thanks to his firm and patriotic position, sincerity and love for his compatriots, he has the fame and popularity of a national hero.

According to a survey conducted by the Independent Association of Newsmakers of Russia in 1998 and covering more than 85 thousand respondents, Alexander Novikov, along with Yesenin, Galich, Vysotsky, is one of the most prominent poets of the 20th century.

Married. Has two children. Wife Maria Fedorovna is an employee of the Ural Academy of Public Administration. Son Igor and daughter Natalia. Hobbies - fishing, hunting, fast driving.

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