Nikolai Pavlovich Budashkin (1910-1988) - Soviet composer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1972). Laureate of two Stalin Prizes (1947, 1949), author of folklore music for films, tunes for button accordion, domra, dance, ditties and suffering. He was born on July 24 (August 6), 1910 in the village of Lyubakhovka. In 1917 he moved to Chita with his family. , where he studied at the school of FZU, worked in a forge, played in an amateur brass band and an orchestra of Russian folk instruments in the red corner of a steam engine factory. In 1929 he entered the rabfak MGK named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. He studied under R. M. Glier and N. Ya. Myaskovsky. In 1936 he was called up for service in the Red Army. In 1937 he graduated from the conservatory in the composition class. In 1938 he graduated from graduate school, worked as an assistant in the department of instrumentation. In 1939 he entered into the author's an agreement on writing “Rhapsodies for Jazz.” During the Great Patriotic War, he was a composer of the Political Directorate of the DKBF. In 1945-1951 he was an assistant to the head of the N. P. Osipov State Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, for which he wrote many works. In 1965 he began teaching work at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography: first, as an assistant professor, and since 1973, as a professor in the department of Instrumentation and Reading Scores. He wrote music for plays, feature films and animated films. He died in Moscow on January 31, 1988.

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