Nadezhda Georgievna Babkina (Russian: Надежда Георгиевна Бабкина; born 19 March 1950[4][5]) is а Soviet and Russian folk and pop singer.[6] In 1992 she was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR.[7][8] A minor planet, 10684 Babkina, was named in her honor.[9] Since 2014 she has been a deputy of the Moscow City Duma.[10]
Nadezhda Babkina
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Nadezhda Babkina in 2020
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| Born | Nadezhda Georgievna Babkina (1950-03-19) 19 March 1950 (age 74)
Chyorny Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Soviet Union
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| Occupation | Singer |
| Title | People's Artist of the RSFSR (1992) |
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Echo of Moscow program, 3 January 2008 |
| Website | www.babkina.ru |
Babkina was born on March 19, 1950, in Chyorny Yar, Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Oblast, Soviet Union,[5][11] in the family of the hereditary Volga Cossack Georgy Ivanovich Babkin (1916–1990).
She spent her childhood and the school years in the village of Zubovka, Chernoyarsky District, Astrakhan Oblast.[12]
From early childhood she sang. In 1967, while studying in the 10th grade of secondary school, she won the All-Russian Youth Competition in the genre of Russian folk song.[5][11]
In 1967, after graduating from high school, she studied at the Astrakhan School of Music and in 1971 she graduated from it.[11]
In 1971 started her studies at the conducting and choral department of the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. She graduated from the institute with two specialties: "conducting a folk choir" (in 1976) and "solo folk singing" (in 1983).[11][13]
In 1974, while being a student, she formed the vocal band "Russkaya pesnya"[5][11] in "Gnesinka", which included six girls.[13]
In 1976, the first remarkable success was the performance in Sochi at the All-Russian Soviet Song Contest.[16] Soon, three men have joined the girls'band. The band, led by Nadezhda Babkina, performed more than one hundred adaptations of Russian folk songs, created a large number of thematic concert programs, performances, folk acts ("Wedding", "Shrovetide", "Night Fortune-telling", "When the Sand Rises", "Russkaya pesnya collects friends" and others). Several shows became hits (arrangements of the songs "Moscow Golden-domed", "Dunin’s head fell ill", "How my mother wanted me", "If you want to be a military man", "Girl Nadia"). First, the composers Zhanna Kuznetsova and Vladimir Belyaev actively collaborated with the "Russian Song". The band composition has repeatedly changed. For many years, in the band have performed the Honored Artist of Russian Federation Tatyana Savanova (from the day of foundation), Vladimir Levashov, Nikolai Kuzmich.[13]
In 1985, Babkina has entered at the faculty of bandstand directors and mass performances of the Higher Theater Courses at the A. Lunacharsky State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), which she graduated in 1986, receiving the specialty "Director of Band and Mass Performances".[5][11]
In 1993, she hosted together with Russkaya Pesnya the Nizhny Novgorod Carousel – 93 the Russian folk song contest, and launched the Cossack Twist folk festival (1997); since 1999, she has been the head of the jury of the Russian contest Olga Kovaleva.[13]
On March 17, 2010, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded Nadezhda Babkina the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class.[17][18]
She is the People's Artist of the Chechen Republic.[5]
On June 17, 2012, she was awarded the honorary title "People's Artist of the Republic of Ingushetia".[5][19][20]
On November 17, 2016, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Nadezhda Babkina with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class.[21]
In 1989, on the basis of the vocal band "Russkaya pesnya", Babkinz has founded the multifunctional Moscow State Folklore Center Russkaya Pesnya.[13]
Since April 1994, the Folklore Center Russkaya Pesnya has become an independent organization run by the Moscow City Culture Committee. It consists of an instrumental group of six musicians, who own several the arrangements. The center is assisted by the directors Sergey Tsvetkov, Lyubov Grechishnikova, choreographer Elena Karaseva, artists A. Mamaev, M. Fedorova, Valentin Yudashkin. The theater is engaged in staging musical and stage compositions, theatrical musical folk acts, publishing specialized (repertoire-methodical) literature, providing advisory assistance to folk singers, supporting young talents, experimental creativity (in the educational band "Slavs", the Folk Song Theater led by Tamara Semantic and others).[13]
Nadezhda Babkina is an active member of the United Russia political party.
On June 23, 2008, in the interview published in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Estonia, Nadezhda Babkina has approved the actions of the Estonian Government on transferring the monument of the Soviet soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War, from Tõnismägi Hill in the center of Tallinn to the Military Cemetery, and urged the Russians who living in Estonia not to protest against the authorities of the republic. According to the artist, quoted by the newspaper, Babkina "reminded everyone living in Estonia that they should accept the actions of their government since they were here." The newspaper also cites Babkina's statement that she cannot understand why some Russians are outraged by the transfer of the Bronze Soldier. "It was not destroyed, but was transferred to the cemetery, where you can walk and lay flowers." Babkina also advised Estonian politicians on how to work with the Russian population of the country.[22]
On January 28, 2012, at a meeting in Yekaterinburg, she supported the candidacy of Vladimir Putin.[23]
On February 6, 2012, she was officially registered as a confidant of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation and of Prime Minister in effect Vladimir Putin.[24]
On March 11, 2014, she signed a Collective appeal to the Russian public on behalf of the Worker of Culture figures of Russia in support of the President's position in Ukraine and Crimea.[25]
On September 15, 2014, she participated in the Moscow City Duma elections in the constituency No. 6 (Golovinsky, Levoberezhny, Khovrino districts, and part of Western Degunino), where she won the majority of votes.[26] As an MP, she succeeded in the opening of children's music studios in the schools of her district.[27]
In February 2023 Canada sanctioned Nadezhda Babkina for being involved in Russian propaganda and spreading misinformation relating to the 2022 war in Ukraine.[28]
