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Biography, life story of Okudzhava Bulat Shalvovich
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (May 9, 1924 - June 12, 1997) - poet, novelist, film screenwriter. The founder of the art song direction.
Childhood and adolescence
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was born on May 9, 1924 in Moscow into a family of party workers (father – Georgian, mother – Armenian). When the boy was born, his parents named him Dorian (in honor of the hero of Oscar Wilde's novel Dorian Gray). However, a month later, when it was time to register the child, the father decided that this name did not really suit his son. He invited his wife to register the boy under the name Bulat. She, after thinking a little, agreed.
Lived on Arbat. In 1934 he moved with his parents to Nizhny Tagil. There, his father was elected first secretary of the city party committee, and his mother was elected secretary of the district committee. In 1937, the parents were arrested; the father was shot, the mother was exiled to the Karaganda camp. Okudzhava returned to Moscow, where he and his brother were raised by their grandmother. In 1940 he moved to relatives in Tbilisi.
IN school years from the age of 14 he was an extra and stagehand in the theater, worked as a mechanic, and at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War - as a turner at a defense plant. In 1942, after graduating from the ninth grade of high school in Tbilisi, he volunteered to go to war. He served in a reserve mortar division, then after two months of training he was sent to the North Caucasus Front. He was a mortarman, then a heavy artillery radio operator. He was wounded near the city of Mozdok. In 1945, Okudzhava was demobilized and returned to Tbilisi.
Education and work
Graduated as an external student high school and entered the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi University, where he studied from 1945 to 1950. After graduating from the university, from 1950 to 1955, he was assigned to teach in the village of Shamordino and the regional center of Vysokinichi, Kaluga region, then at one of the secondary schools in Kaluga. There, in Kaluga, he was a correspondent and literary contributor to the regional newspapers "Znamya" and "Young Leninist".
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In 1955, the parents were rehabilitated. In 1956 Bulat returned to Moscow. Participated in the work of the literary association "Magistral". He worked as an editor at the publishing house "Young Guard", then as head of the poetry department at " Literary newspaper". In 1961 he left the service and devoted himself entirely to free creative work.
Personal life
The first wife is Galina Vasilievna Smolyaninova. Children from his first marriage - son Igor (born in 1954, died at the age of 43), daughter (the girl died immediately after birth). Bulat broke up with Galina in 1964, and a year after the divorce, the woman died of a heart attack.
The second wife is Olga Vladimirovna Artsimovich, a physicist by training. Son - Bulat (Anton) Bulatovich Okudzhava (born in 1965), musician, composer.
In the early 1980s, Bulat Okudzhava had a serious affair with singer Natalya Gorlenko (his lover was 31 years younger than him).
Death
Bulat Okudzhava underwent heart surgery in the USA. He died on June 12, 1997 after a short serious illness in Paris. Before his death he was baptized under the name John. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Poetry and songs
He began writing poetry in childhood. Okudzhava's poem was first published in 1945 in the newspaper of the Transcaucasian Military District "Fighter of the Red Army" (later "Lenin's Banner"), where his other poems were published during 1946. In 1953-1955, Okudzhava’s poems regularly appeared on the pages of Kaluga newspapers. In Kaluga, in 1956, the first collection of his poems, “Lyrics,” was published. In 1959, Okudzhava’s second collection of poetry, “Islands,” was published in Moscow. In subsequent years, Okudzhava’s poems were published in many periodicals and collections, books of his poems were published in Moscow and other cities.
Okudzhava owns more than 800 poems. Many of his poems were born along with music; there are about 200 songs. He first tried himself in the song genre during the war. In 1946, as a student at Tbilisi University, he created the “Student Song” (“Furious and stubborn, burn, fire, burn...”). Since 1956, Okudzhava was one of the first to act as the author of poetry and song music and their performer. Okudzhava’s songs attracted attention. Tape recordings of his performances appeared, which brought Okudzhava wide popularity. Recordings of Okudzhava's songs were sold throughout the country in thousands of copies. His songs were heard in films and plays, in concert programs, on television and radio broadcasts. The first professionally recorded disc was released in Paris in 1968, despite the resistance of the Soviet authorities. Noticeably later, discs were released in the USSR.
The State Literary Museum in Moscow has created a collection of tape recordings of Okudzhava, numbering over 280 storage units.
Professional composers write music to Okudzhava’s poems. An example of luck is V. Levashov’s song to Okudzhava’s poems “Take your overcoat, let’s go home.” But the most fruitful was Okudzhava's collaboration with Isaac Schwartz ("Drops of the Danish King", "Your Honor", "Song of the Cavalry Guard", "Road Song", songs for the television film "Straw Hat" and others).
Books (collections of poems and songs)
Sheet music editions of songs
The first musical edition of B. Okudzhava's songs, known to us, was published in Krakow in 1970 (there were repeated editions in later years). Musicologist V. Frumkin was unable to push through the release of the collection in the USSR, but, having left for the USA, he released it there. In 1989, a large collection of songs was released in our country. Individual songs were published many times in mass collections of songs.
Prose
Since the 1960s, Okudzhava has worked a lot in the prose genre. In 1961, his autobiographical story “Be Healthy, Schoolboy” (published as a separate edition in 1987), dedicated to yesterday’s schoolchildren who had to defend the country from fascism, was published in the almanac “Tarussky Pages”. The story received a negative assessment from supporters of official criticism, who accused Okudzhava of pacifism.
In subsequent years, Okudzhava constantly wrote autobiographical prose, compiling the collections “The Girl of My Dreams” and “The Visiting Musician” (14 short stories and novellas), as well as the novel “The Abolished Theater” (1993), which received the International Booker Prize in 1994 as the best novel of the year Russian language.
At the end of the 1960s, Okudzhava turned to historical prose. In 1970-80, the stories “Poor Avrosimov” (“A Sip of Freedom”) (1969) about the tragic pages in the history of the Decembrist movement, “The Adventures of Shipov, or Ancient Vaudeville” (1971) and written on historical material were published in separate editions early XIX century novels “The Journey of Amateurs” (Part 1, 1976; Part 2, 1978) and “A Date with Bonaparte” (1983).
Abroad
Okudzhava's performances took place in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Spain, Italy, Canada, Poland, USA, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Japan.
Okudzhava’s works have been translated into many languages and published in many countries around the world.
Theater
Dramatic performances were staged based on Okudzhava’s play “A Sip of Freedom” (1966), as well as his prose, poetry and songs.
Films: Film and Television
Since the mid-1960s, Okudzhava has been acting as a film playwright. Even earlier, his songs began to be heard in films: in more than 50 films, more than 70 songs based on Okudzhava’s poems were heard, of which more than 40 songs were based on his music. Sometimes Okudzhava acted in films himself.
Film scripts
Bulat Okudzhava created four scripts for films, but only two films were shot - “Loyalty” (1965) and “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” (1967).
Awards and prizes
Bulat Shalvovich was awarded more than 20 different awards. Among them are medals for courage during the war, and prizes for incomparable writing talent.
In 1997, the State Literary Prize named after Bulat Okudzhava was established.
- famous Russian poet and prose writer. A bright representative of the art song genre. He is the author of almost two hundred compositions. Year of birth: May 9, 1924 (Moscow).
Brief biography:
His father (Georgian) and mother (Armenian) were party workers, from whom Bulat was separated in 1937. The father was arrested and shot, and the mother was sent to a camp (Karaganda), where she remained until 1955.
In 1940, Bulat moved to live in Tbilisi with relatives, where he studied and worked.
Already at the age of 17, he volunteered for the front (1942). During the hostilities near Mozdok he was wounded.
During this difficult time (1943), he wrote the first song “We couldn’t sleep in the cold heated cars.” But the text, unfortunately, has not survived to our times.
“Ancient student song” became the second in a row (1946).
When the war ended, Okudzhava was enrolled in the State University of Tbilisi. After graduation (1950), he worked as a teacher in a rural school (Kaluga region).
In 1954, at a meeting of writers, Bulat read his poems. After kind criticism and support, he began to collaborate with the Kaluga newspaper “Young Leninist”. This is how his first collection of poems, entitled “Lyrics” (1956), was born.
Returning to Moscow in 1959, Bulat began performing in front of large audiences. In addition to poetry, performances began to include guitar. It was from this moment that his popularity began to grow.
At the same time, he was the editor of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, then worked at Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Since 1961 - Okudzhava began to focus only on his creativity and no longer worked for hire.
In the same year, the first official concert of Bulat Okudzhava took place in Kharkov.
In 1962, he also starred for the first time in the feature film “Chain Reaction”, where he performed the composition “Midnight Trolleybus”.
Also a year later, his song “And we need one victory” was performed in the film “Belorussky Station”. Now, Bulat's songs and his poems are heard in about eighty films.
To all other Okudzhava wrote several songs based on the poems of Ognieszka Osiecka (Polish poetess), which he previously translated into Russian.
Singer Natalya Gorlenko also played a special role in his work. They had a long affair. (1981).
In the 90s, he more often lived at his dacha in Peredelkino (Moscow region). Gave concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He has also performed in Canada, the USA, Germany and Israel. His last concert was in Paris. (1995).
June 12, 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava died in a hospital in the suburb of Clamart (Paris). He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
In 1999, the State memorial museum Bulat Okudzhava" in the Moscow region.
Also in his honor, already in Moscow itself, 2 monuments were erected (2002, 2007).
The early years, childhood and family of Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava was born in the capital of the USSR into a family of convinced communists, immigrants from Georgia and Armenia. The father of the future poet, Georgian Shalva Stepanovich Okudzhava, was a famous party leader. My Armenian mother, Ashkhen Stepanovna Nalbandyan, was a housewife.A couple of years after the birth of their son, the parents of the future singer returned to Tbilisi again. Here Bulat Okudzhava’s father began to rapidly climb up the party ladder. He was the secretary of the Tbilisi city committee, the 1st secretary of the Nizhny Tagil city party committee, and also held some other important positions. Following him, Bulat Okudzhava’s family often moved, but very soon Shalva Stepanovich’s career was tragically interrupted. According to a false denunciation, which was also aggravated by a past quarrel with Lavrenty Beria, the father of the future singer was exiled to the camps and then shot. Fleeing from persecution, Bulat Okudzhava’s mother transported her son back to Moscow, but later also ended up in the Karaganda camp for wives of traitors to the motherland. The courageous woman had a chance to return from there only twelve years later. However, this is a completely different story...
As for Bulat Okudzhava himself, after his mother’s arrest he again went to his relatives in Tbilisi. Here he studied and then worked as a turner at a factory. In 1942, Okudzhava volunteered to go to the front. IN Soviet army he served as a mortarman and managed to take part in many bloody battles. In 1943, he was seriously wounded near Mozdok and then sent behind the front line.
It is very noteworthy that already during this period Okudzhava wrote one of his very first songs - “We couldn’t sleep in the cold heated cars.” After writing it, Bulat did not pick up a guitar for a long time.
After the war, the future singer entered the State University Tbilisi. After graduating in 1950, he began working as a teacher in a rural school. During this period, Bulat Okudzhava often wrote poetry, many of which were later set to music.
Star Trek by Bulat Okudzhava: from literature to songs
In 1954, Bulat Okudzhava attended a meeting with readers of two famous Soviet writers, Vladimir Koblikov and Nikolai Panchenko. After the end of the creative evening, he approached them and invited them to listen to his poems. Recognized writers really liked the poems of the young author, and very soon his work began to be published in the newspaper “Young Leninist”. For the sake of new job in the newspaper, he moved to Kaluga, where he subsequently published his first collection of poems, “Lyrics” (1956).Bulat Okudzhava - Song about fools
After the rehabilitation of his parents in 1955, he joined the CPSU, and three years later he moved to Moscow, where he began working as a songwriter. Despite the fact that there were no posters announcing his performances anywhere, Bulat Okudzhava’s concerts were always sold out. Spectators shared their impressions with their friends, and they brought their own friends to the performances. Thus, already in the early sixties, Bulat Okudzhava became very popular.
He performed his songs with a guitar, and listeners really liked this almost intimate format of performing songs. Very soon the compositions “On Tverskoy Boulevard”, “Moscow Ant”, “Sentimental March” and many, many others became real hits of their time.
In 1961, the first official concert of Bulat Okudzhava took place in Kharkov, which was a great success. Soon, the performer’s creative evenings were held in some other cities of the USSR.
Bulat Okudzhava - Song about the Moscow ant
In 1962, Bulat Okudzhava’s composition was first performed in cinema. The film “Chain Reaction” did not gain popular popularity, but its name is to this day inextricably linked with the work of the legendary singer-songwriter.
Another composition by the poet, written for the film “Belorussky Station,” became truly popular. After the premiere, Bulat Okudzhava’s song “We Need One Victory” was played from all tape recorders in the country. It is worth noting that to this day this legendary composition is one of the author’s most famous songs.
Subsequently, Bulat Okudzhava often collaborated with prominent Soviet directors, composing a total of more than eighty songs for various films.
In the eighties, with the massive advent of tape recorders and other devices for playing music, he firmly established himself as one of the most famous musicians of his time. But first of all, Okudzhava was known as a poet and prose writer. His novels and short stories were published in many Soviet magazines and invariably enjoyed great success.
The last years of Bulat Okudzhava
With the collapse of the USSR, Bulat Okudzhava began touring frequently European countries and other Western countries. In the early nineties, his concerts took place in Poland, France, Israel, the USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.IN last years Bulat Okudzhava lived in Paris during his life. There, in 1997, he died from a short illness. The poet's body was returned to Russia and buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Personal life of Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Shalvovich was married twice. The first marriage with Galina Smolyaninova was tragic. Their daughter died in infancy, and their son Igor became a drug addict and was in prison. 
The second marriage with physicist Olga Artsimovich was more successful. This marriage produced a son, Anton, who later became a famous composer.
According to some reports, Bulat Okudzhava also had another bright romance in his life. For a long time his common-law wife there was singer Natalya Gorlenko. The famous author lived with her for several years.
Secondary school No. 2 in RossoshiEssay
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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (1924 - 1997) is one of the most original Russian poets of the 20th century, the recognized founder of the art song.
Until 1940 he lived on Arbat. Both the date and place of the poet’s birth acquired a symbolic character over time. May 9 was the day of the end of the most terrible and inhumane war, about which front-line soldier Okudzhava managed to say a new word in his songs. Arbat, in the poet’s lyrical system, became a symbol of peace, goodness, humanity, nobility, culture, historical memory - everything that opposes war, cruelty and violence. A significant part of Okudzhava’s lyrics were written under the impressions of the war years. But these songs and poems are not so much about war as against it: “War, you see, is an unnatural thing, taking away from a person the right to life given by nature. I am wounded by it for the rest of my life, and in my dreams I still often see dead comrades, ashes of houses, the earth torn apart by craters... I hate war.” Before last day, looking back, admiring the victory, proud of the participants in the Great Patriotic War, the poet never ceased to hope that we, people, will learn to do without blood when solving our earthly affairs. Okudzhava’s last poems contain the lines:
The soldier walks with a rifle, he is not afraid of the enemy.
But here’s the strange thing going on in his soul:
He hates guns, and he is not happy about wars...
Of course, if it’s not a bast shoe, but a soldier.
And yet: “The war has become so ingrained in me that it is difficult for me to get rid of it. We would all probably be glad to forget about the war forever, but, unfortunately, it does not subside, it follows on our heels... How long will we, people, defeat this war?
Bulat's life was not easy. In 1937, the poet's father, a major party worker, was arrested and then shot. The mother was sent to a camp. Bulat Okudzhava himself barely managed to avoid being sent to Orphanage as the son of an “enemy of the people.” From the ninth grade of a Moscow school, he went to the front, where he was a mortar man, a machine gunner, and, after being wounded, a heavy artillery radio operator. From 1945 to 1950, Okudzhava studied at the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi University. That’s when his first song “Fierce and stubborn, burn, fire, burn...” was born.
In this small, but extremely dynamic and rich text, one can see a kind of grain of the genre, which will then receive widespread development. What is striking here is the combination of external simplicity, apparent artlessness with the depth of thought and experience. What is the song about? Yes, about everything in the world: about the inexhaustible mystery of life, about the fullness of being that we comprehend only on the path of tragic trials. The most serious things are spoken here with artistic ease, almost carelessness. The song creates an atmosphere of sincerity, trust, and inner freedom. The song was born among students, but its author was not yesterday’s schoolboy, but a man wise with life and military experience, who knew not from books what “the most doomsday" It is no coincidence that today, so many years later, Okudzhava’s first song is not at all outdated; its romantic and philosophical mood is still close to many. Both the poet himself and the knights of the author’s song who followed him carried this “fierce” and “stubborn” fire through the decades.
After graduating from university, Okudzhava worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural school near Kaluga. In 1956, his first poetry collection “Lyrics” was published in Kaluga. Okudzhava moves to Moscow, where his mother returned after rehabilitation. Soon, many of the poet's songs became famous among Moscow writers, which he first performed in a friendly circle, and from about 1959 - publicly. In the 60s, the need for a genre that would later be called the “art song” turned out to be extremely great. The pattern of its appearance, its natural entry into the culture of that time was accurately expressed by David Samoilov:
Former defenders of the state,
We missed Okudzhava.
Bulat Okudzhava is the recognized founder of the original song. Success came to Okudzhava because he addressed not the masses, but the individual, not everyone, but each individual. The subject of poetry in his world became ordinary, everyday life.
He began writing poetry in childhood. Okudzhava's poem was first published in 1945 in the newspaper of the Transcaucasian Military District "Fighter of the Red Army" (later "Lenin's Banner"), where his other poems were published during 1946. In 1953-1955, Okudzhav’s poems regularly appeared on the pages of Kaluga newspapers. In Kaluga, in 1956, the first collection of his poems, “Lyrics,” was published. In 1959, Okudzhava’s second collection of poetry, “Islands,” was published in Moscow. In subsequent years, Okudzhava’s poems were published in many periodicals and collections, books of his poems were published in Moscow and other cities.
Okudzhava owns more than 800 poems. Many of his poems are born together with music; there are already about 200 songs.
For the first time he tries himself in the song genre during the war. In 1946, as a student at Tbilisi University, he created the “Student Song” (“Furious and stubborn, burn, fire, burn...”). Since 1956, he was one of the first to act as the author of poetry and music, songs and their performer. Okudzhava’s songs attracted attention. Tape recordings of his performances appeared, which brought him wide popularity. Recordings of his songs were sold throughout the country in thousands of copies. His songs were heard in films and plays, in concert programs, on television and radio broadcasts. The first disc was released in Paris in 1968, despite the resistance of the Soviet authorities. Noticeably later, discs were released in the USSR.
Currently, the State Literary Museum in Moscow has created a collection of tape recordings of Okudzhava, numbering over 280 storage units.
Professional composers write music to Okudzhava’s poems. An example of luck is V. Levashov’s song to Okudzhava’s poems “Take your overcoat, let’s go home.” But the most fruitful was Okudzhava's collaboration with Isaac Schwartz ("Drops of the Danish King", "Your Honor", "Song of the Cavalry Guard", "Road Song", songs for the television film "Straw Hat" and others).
Books (collections of poems and songs): "Lyrics" (Kaluga, 1956), "Islands" (M., 1959), "The Cheerful Drummer" (M., 1964), "On the Road to Tinatin" (Tbilisi, 1964), "Magnanimous March" (M., 1964) 1967), "Arbat, my Arbat" (M., 1976), "Poems" (M., 1984, 1985), "Dedicated to you" (M., 1988), "Favorites" (M., 1989), " Songs" (M., 1989), "Songs and Poems" (M., 1989), "Drops of the Danish King" (M., 1991), "Grace of Fate" (M., 1993), "Song about My Life" (M., 1995), "Tea Party on Arbat" (M., 1996), "Waiting Room" (Nizhny Novgorod, 1996).
Since the 1960s. Okudzhava works a lot in the prose genre. In 1961, his autobiographical story “Be Healthy, Schoolboy” (published as a separate edition in 1987), dedicated to yesterday’s schoolchildren who had to defend the country from fascism, was published in the almanac “Tarussky Pages”. The story received a negative assessment from supporters of official criticism, who accused Okudzhava of pacifism.
In subsequent years, Okudzhava constantly wrote autobiographical prose, compiling the collections “The Girl of My Dreams” and “The Visiting Musician” (14 short stories and novellas), as well as the novel “The Abolished Theater” (1993), which received the International Booker Prize in 1994 as the best novel of the year Russian language.
At the end of the 1960s. Okudzhava turns to historical prose. In 1970-80 The stories "Poor Avrosimov" ("A Sip of Freedom") (1969) about the tragic pages in the history of the Decembrist movement, "The Adventures of Shipov, or Ancient Vaudeville" (1971) and the novels "The Journey of Amateurs" (1971) were published in separate editions. Part 1. 1976; Part 2. 1978) and “Date with Bonaparte” (1983).
Books (prose): “The Front Comes to Us” (M., 1967), “A Breath of Freedom” (M., 1971), “Lovely Adventures” (Tbilisi, 1971; M., 1993), “The Adventures of Shipov, or Ancient Vaudeville” (M. , 1975, 1992), “Selected Prose” (M., 1979), “Travel of Amateurs” (M., 1979, 1980, 1986, 1990; Tallinn, 1987, 1988), “Date with Bonaparte” (M., 1985 , 1988), “Be healthy, schoolboy” (M., 1987), “The Girl of My Dreams” (M., 1988), “Selected Works” in 2 vols. (M., 1989), “The Adventures of a Secret Baptist” (M., 1991), “Tales and Stories” (M., 1992), “Visiting Musician” (M., 1993), “Abolished Theater” (M., 1993), 1995).
Okudzhava's performances took place in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Spain, Italy, Canada, Poland, USA, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Japan.
Okudzhava’s works have been translated into many languages and published in many countries around the world.
Books of poetry and prose published abroad (in Russian): "Song about Fools" (London, 1964), "Bless you, Schoolboy" (Frankfurt am Main, 1964, 1966), "The Merry Drummer" (London, 1966), "Prose and Poetry" (Frankfurt am Main) , 1968, 1977, 1982, 1984), “Two Novels” (Frankfurt am Main, 1970), “Poor Avrosimov” (Chicago, 1970; Paris, 1972), “Lovely Adventures” (Tel Aviv, 1975), "Songs" in 2 volumes (ARDIS, vol. 1, 1980; vol. 2, 1986 (1988).
Dramatic performances were staged based on Okudzhava’s play “A Sip of Freedom” (1966), as well as his prose, poetry and songs.
Productions : “A breath of freedom” (L., Youth Theater, 1967; Krasnoyarsk, Youth Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol, 1967; Chita, Drama Theater, 1971; M., Moscow Art Theater, 1980; Tashkent, Russian Drama Theater named after M. Gorky, 1986) ; "Mercy, or ancient vaudeville" (L., musical comedy theater, 1974); “Be healthy, schoolboy” (L., Youth Theater, 1980); "Music of the Arbat Courtyard" (Moscow, Chamber Musical Theatre, 1988). Films: cinema and television.
Since the mid-1960s. Okudzhava acts as a film playwright. Even earlier, his songs began to be heard in films: in more than 50 films, more than 70 songs based on Okudzhava’s poems were heard, of which more than 40 songs were based on his music. Sometimes Okudzhava acts in films himself.
Film scripts:
“Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” (1967; co-authored with V. Motyl; Production: Lenfilm, 1967);
"Private life Alexander Sergeich, or Pushkin in Odessa" (1966; co-authored with O. Artsimovich; film not produced);
Songs in films (most famous works):
to your own music:
"Sentimental March" ("Zastava Ilyich", 1963)
“We will not stand behind the price” (Belorussky Station, 1971)
"Wish to Friends" ("Untransferable Key", 1977)
"Song of the Moscow Militia" ("The Great Patriotic War", 1979)
"Happy Draw" ("Legitimate Marriage", 1985) to the music of I. Shvarts:
"Drops of the Danish King" ("Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha", 1967)
"Your Honor" ("White Sun of the Desert", 1970)
"Song of the Cavalry Guard" ("Star of Captivating Happiness", 1975) songs for the film "Straw Hat", 1975
"Road Song" ("We were not married in church", 1982) to the music of L. Schwartz
"The Cheerful Drummer" ("My Friend, Kolka", 1961) to the music of V. Geviksman
"Old Pier" ("Chain Reaction", 1963) to music by V. Levashov
“Take your overcoat, let’s go home” (“From Dawn to Dawn”, 1975; “Aty-Bati, the soldiers were walking...”, 1976).
Books:
"Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha..." (M., 1968)
"Drops of the Danish King". Film scripts and songs from films (M.: Kinotsentr, 1991).
Works in the frame:
Feature (fiction) films:
"Ilyich's Zastava" ("I am twenty years old"), Film Studio named after. M. Gorky, 1963
"The key without the right of transfer", Lenfilm, 1977
"Legitimate Marriage", Mosfilm, 1985
"Keep me safe, my talisman", Film Studio. A.P. Dovzhenko, 1986
"I remember a wonderful moment" (Lenfilm)
"My contemporaries", Lenfilm, 1984
"Two hours with bards" ("Bards"), Mosfilm, 1988
"And don't forget about me", Russian television, 1992
His life became a legend. No tape recording will convey the full richness of the intonations of his wonderful voice, although, of course, there is nothing elaborate or pretentious in his voice. Bulat Okudzhava's poems and songs reflect Big world existing in both time and space human values, it would be more accurate to say - universal human values.
On June 12, 1997, tragic news came from France to Russia - Bulat Okudzhava died. A decade later, any brief Internet encyclopedia will give every curious person dry information: “Poet, prose writer, film scriptwriter. Author and performer of songs, founder of the art song movement.” But then it was immediately clear to several generations of people - another great era became only a "property".
Bulat Okudzhava pitied everyone in his songs: both good and bad. He felt sorry for himself, the tired travelers, the girls, the girls, married women and grandmothers, he felt sorry for the “blue ball”, the infantry, the boys, again himself, again the women, and finally, his soul.
Soviet and Russian poet, bard, prose writer and screenwriter, composer
short biography
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava(named by parents at birth Dorian, in honor of Dorian Gray; May 9, 1924, Moscow, USSR - June 12, 1997, Clamart, France) - Soviet and Russian poet, bard, prose writer and screenwriter, composer. Author of about two hundred original and pop songs, one of the most prominent representatives genre of art song in the 1960s-1980s. For the lyrics of the songs, Okudzhava chose not only his own poems, but also tales from the Caucasian folk epic.
Childhood and youth
Bulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on May 9, 1924 into a family of Bolsheviks who came from Tiflis to study at the Communist Academy. Father - Shalva Stepanovich Okudzhava, Georgian, party leader; mother - Ashkhen Stepanovna Nalbandyan, Armenian, relative of the Armenian poet Vahan Teryan. Uncle Vladimir Okudzhava is an anarchist terrorist who fled from Russian Empire after a failed assassination attempt on the governor of Kutaisi; later appeared on the passenger list of the sealed carriage that carried Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev and other revolutionary leaders from Switzerland to Russia in April 1917.
My paternal great-grandfather's name was Pavel Peremushev. He came to Georgia in mid-19th century century, having previously served 25 years in the lower ranks and received a land plot in Kutaisi for this. “Who he was - either an original Russian, or a Mordvin, or a Jew from the cantonists - no information has been preserved, no daguerreotypes either”. He worked as a tailor and was married to a Georgian woman, Salome Medzmariashvili. The marriage produced three daughters. The eldest of them, Elizaveta, married the Georgian Stepan Okudzhava, a clerk, with whom she had eight children, including Shalva Stepanovich.
Soon after Bulat's birth, his father was sent to the Caucasus as a commissar of the Georgian division. Mother remained in Moscow, worked in the party apparatus. Bulat was sent to Tiflis to study and studied in a Russian class.
Father was promoted to secretary of the Tiflis city committee. Because of the conflict with Beria, he asked Ordzhonikidze to send him to party work in Russia, and was sent to the Urals by the party organizer for construction carriage plant in the city of Nizhny Tagil. Then he became the 1st secretary of the Nizhny Tagil city party committee and soon sent his family to live with him in the Urals. Bulat began studying at school No. 32.
In 1937, Okudzhava’s father was arrested in connection with the Trotskyist case at Uralvagonstroy. The arrested director of the plant, L.M. Maryasin, testified that in August 1934, he and Okudzhava, during the visit of the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry Ordzhonikidze to Uralvagonstroy, tried to organize an assassination attempt on him.
On August 4, 1937, Sh. S. Okudzhava was shot. My father's two brothers were also shot as supporters of Trotsky.
Soon after his father's arrest, in February 1937, his mother, grandmother and Bulat moved to Moscow. First place of residence in Moscow - Arbat street, building 43, apt. 12, communal apartment on the fourth floor.
Okudzhava's mother was arrested in Moscow in 1938 and exiled to Karlag, from where she returned in 1947. Father's sister Olga Okudzhava (wife of the poet Galaktion Tabidze) was shot near Orel in 1941.
In 1940, Bulat Okudzhava moved to relatives in Tbilisi. He studied and then worked at a factory as a turner's apprentice.
The Great Patriotic War
In April 1942, Bulat Okudzhava sought early conscription into the army. He was called up after turning eighteen in August 1942 and assigned to the 10th separate reserve mortar division.
After two months of training from October 1942 on the Transcaucasian Front, he became a mortarman in the cavalry regiment of the 5th Guards Don Cavalry Cossack Corps. On December 16, 1942, he was wounded near Mozdok.
After the hospital, he did not return to the active army. From January 1943, he served in the 124th reserve rifle regiment in Batumi and later as a radio operator in the 126th high-power howitzer artillery brigade of the Transcaucasian Front, which covered the border with Turkey and Iran during this period.
Demobilized for health reasons in March 1944 with the rank of guard private. He was awarded the medals “For the Defense of the Caucasus” and “For the Victory over Germany”, and in 1985 - the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.
Working as a teacher
Bulat Okudzhava, 1944
After demobilization he returned to Tbilisi. On June 20, 1944, he received a certificate of secondary education. In 1945 he entered the philological faculty of Tbilisi University.
Having received his diploma in 1950, he worked as a teacher in the Kaluga region for two and a half years.
Poet, bard
Okudzhava's first song “We couldn’t sleep in the cold heated vehicles” refers to the period of service in the artillery brigade, the lyrics of the song have not been preserved. The second, “Old Student Song” (“Frantic and Stubborn...”), was written in 1946. Okudzhava’s poems first appeared in the garrison newspaper of the Transcaucasian Front “Fighter of the Red Army” (later “Lenin’s Banner”), first under the pseudonym A. Dolzhenov.
While working in the Kaluga region, Okudzhava collaborated with the newspaper “Young Leninist”. In 1956 he released his first collection “Lyrics”.
In 1956, after the rehabilitation of both parents and the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Okudzhava joined the party. In 1959 he moved to Moscow and began performing with his songs, quickly gaining popularity. The composition of many of Okudzhava’s famous songs dates back to this period (1956-1967): “On Tverskoy Boulevard”, “Song about Lyonka Korolev”, “Song about the Blue Ball”, “Sentimental March”, “Song about the Midnight Trolleybus”, “Not Vagabonds” , not drunkards”, “Moscow Ant”, “Song about the Komsomol goddess”, etc.
In 1961, the first official evening of Okudzhava’s original song in the USSR took place in Kharkov. In 1962, he first appeared on screen in the film Chain Reaction, in which he sang the song “Midnight Trolleybus.”
In 1970, the film “Belorussky Station” was released, in which Bulat Okudzhava’s song “We need one victory” was performed. Okudzhava is the author of other popular songs for such films as “Straw Hat”, “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” (Okudzhava sings with a guitar in a cameo role), etc. In total, Okudzhava’s songs and his poems sound more than 80 films.
Okudzhava became one of the most prominent representatives of the genre of Russian art song (which gained enormous popularity with the advent of tape recorders) - along with V. S. Vysotsky (he called B. Okudzhava his spiritual teacher), A. A. Galich and Yu. Vizbor. Okudzhava formed his own direction in this genre.
In 1967, during a trip to Paris, he recorded 20 songs at the Le Chant du Monde studio. In 1968, based on these recordings, the first album of Okudzhava’s songs was released in France - Le Soldat en Papier. In the same year, a record of his songs performed by Polish artists was released in Poland, and the song “Farewell to Poland” was presented in it, performed by the author.
Since the mid-1970s, Okudzhava’s records began to be released in the USSR: in 1974-1975 the first long-playing record was recorded (released in 1976). It was followed in 1978 by the second Soviet giant disc.
In the mid-1980s, Okudzhava recorded two more giant discs: “Songs and Poems about War” and “The Author Performs New Songs.”
The songs of Bulat Okudzhava, spreading in tape recordings, quickly gained popularity, primarily among the intelligentsia: first in the USSR, and then among the Russian emigration. Songs "Let's join hands, friends...", “Prayer of François Villon” (“While the Earth is still spinning...”) became the anthem of many PCB rallies and festivals.
In addition to songs based on his own poems, Okudzhava wrote a number of songs based on poems by the Polish poetess Agnieszka Osiecka, which he himself translated into Russian. Together with composer Isaac Schwartz, Okudzhava created 32 songs. The most famous among them is the song (used in the famous film “White Sun of the Desert”), the cavalry guard’s song (“The cavalry guard’s age is short…”) from the film “Star of Captivating Happiness,” the romance “Love and Separation” from the film “We Were Not Wed in Church,” as well as songs from movie "Straw Hat".
In the 1990s, Okudzhava mainly lived at his dacha in Peredelkino. At this time he performed concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the USA, Canada, Germany and Israel.
Writer
In 1961, Bulat Okudzhava’s autobiographical story “Be Healthy, Schoolboy” was published in the almanac “Tarussky Pages” (published as a separate edition in 1987). Later he published the stories “Poor Avrosimov” (“A Sip of Freedom”) (1969), “The Adventures of Shipov, or Ancient Vaudeville” (1971) and the novels “The Journey of Amateurs” (1976, 1978) and “A Date with Bonaparte" (1983). Okudzhava considered the novel “Photographer Zhora”, published in the West, to be weak and never published it in his homeland.
At first, Okudzhava was also involved in translations: he translated poetry from Arabic, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, the languages of the peoples of the socialist countries and the USSR, and also translated two books of prose. He wrote for children - the stories “The Front Comes to Us”, “Lovely Adventures”. Helping his disgraced friends, he published under his own name an article by L. Kopelev about Dr. Haase and a book of poems translated by Y. Daniel. The text of the song “Sail” (music by E. Glebov), written by O. Artsimovich, is also printed under his name.
In 1962, Okudzhava was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. He participated in the work of the Magistral literary association, worked as an editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, and then as head of the poetry department at Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1961 he quit his job and no longer worked for hire, focusing exclusively on creative activities.
He was a member of the founding board of the newspapers “Moskovskie Novosti” and “Obshchaya Gazeta”, and a member of the editorial board of the newspaper “Evening Club”.
Okudzhava’s works have been translated into many languages and published in many countries around the world. His books were also published abroad in Russian.
Among his favorite writers, Bulat Okudzhava named A. S. Pushkin, E. T. A. Hoffman and B. L. Pasternak.
Social activity
With the beginning of perestroika, Bulat Okudzhava began to take an active part in political life countries, taking an active democratic position.
Since 1989, Okudzhava has been a founding member of the Russian PEN Center. In 1990 he left the CPSU. Since 1992 - member of the commission on pardons under the President of the Russian Federation, since 1994 - member of the commission on State Prizes of the Russian Federation. He was also a member of the Memorial Society Council.
He had a negative attitude towards Stalin and Lenin.
Well, is the Generalissimo wonderful?
Your claws are safe today -
Your silhouette with your low forehead is dangerous.
I don't keep track of past losses,
but even if he is moderate in his retribution,
I don’t forgive, remembering the past.
- B. Okudzhava, 1981
In an interview with the magazine “Capital” in 1992, Okudzhava said: “Take our disputes with my mother, who, despite the fact that she spent 9 (in the original incorrectly written “19”) years in camps, remained a convinced Bolshevik-Leninist. Well, for some time I myself believed that it was Stalin who ruined everything.” In an interview " Novaya Gazeta"expressed the idea of the similarities between the fascist and Stalinist regimes.
In 1993, he signed “Letter 42” demanding a ban on “communist and nationalist parties, fronts and associations”, recognition of the Congress of People’s Deputies and the Supreme Council as illegitimate, and a trial of supporters of the Supreme Council during the events of October 1993 in Moscow.
He spoke negatively about the leaders of supporters of the Supreme Council (Khasbulatov, Makashov, Rutskoi) in an interview with the newspaper Podmoskovnye Izvestia on December 11, 1993.
Condemned the war in Chechnya.
On June 12, 1997, at the 74th year of his life, Bulat Okudzhava died in a military hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart. Before his death, he was baptized with the name John in memory of the holy martyr John the Warrior. This happened in Paris with the blessing of one of the elders of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Guitar
Bulat Okudzhava played a seven-string guitar with a gypsy major tuning (5th string “C”), but later transferred the same tuning to a classical six-string guitar, getting rid of the 4th string “D”. Yuliy Kim still plays in this formation.
Family
- Father - Shalva Stepanovich Okudzhava, party worker.
- Mother - Ashkhen Stepanovna Nalbandyan, a relative of the Armenian poet Vahan Teryan.
- First wife - Galina Vasilievna Smolyaninova (1926-1965).
- Son - Igor Okudzhava (January 2, 1954 - January 11, 1997).
- Daughter - died in early infancy.
- The second wife is Olga Vladimirovna Okudzhava (nee Artsimovich), niece of Lev Artsimovich.
- Son - Bulat (Anton) Bulatovich Okudzhava (b. 1965), musician, composer.
Confession
Awards
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1985).
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984).
- Zhukov Medal (1996).
- Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" (1944).
- Medal "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War" Patriotic War 1941-1945." (1945).
- Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1965).
- Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1975).
- Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1985).
- Medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1995).
- Medal "50 years" Armed Forces USSR" (1968).
- Medal “60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR” (1977).
- Medal “70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR” (1988).
- Honorary Medal of the Board of the Soviet Peace Fund.
Prizes, honorary titles
- First Prize and Golden Crown Prize, Yugoslavia (1967).
- Prize "Golden Guitar" at the festival in Sanremo, Italy (1985).
- Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Norwich University, USA (1990).
- Penyo Penev Prize, Bulgaria (1990).
- Prize "For Courage in Literature" named after. A.D. Sakharov independent writers' association "April" (1991).
- USSR State Prize (1991) - for the collection of poems “Dedicated to You” (1988).
- Russian Booker Prize (1994) - for the autobiographical novel “The Abolished Theater”.
- Honorary citizen of Kaluga (1996).
Memory
- Asteroid No. 3149 was named after Okudzhava.
- The Bulat Okudzhava State Memorial Museum was founded on August 22, 1998, and opened on October 31, 1999. Located in the Moscow region, Leninsky district, p/o Michurinets, pos. Peredelkino, st. Dovzhenko, 11.
- In 1998, the State Prize named after Bulat Okudzhava was established.
- Since April 14, 1998, Moscow school No. 69 has been named after B. Sh. Okudzhava.
- May 9, 2015 in Nizhny Tagil, on the facade of school No. 32 opened Memorial plaque in memory of B. Sh. Okudzhava, who studied within its walls in 1936-1937.
monuments
- On May 8, 2002, the first monument to Bulat Okudzhava was unveiled in Moscow. The monument is installed on the corner of Arbat and Plotnikov Lane.
- On September 8, 2007, a monument to Okudzhava was unveiled in Moscow in the courtyard of Education Center No. 109. The author of both sculptures is Georgy Frangulyan.
- In honor of the poet’s 80th birthday, a bas-relief of Okudzhava was unveiled at Kaluga school No. 5.
Festivals and competitions named after Bulat Okudzhava
- International Festival of Bulat Okudzhava
- Annual Moscow festival “And I will call friends...” dedicated to Bulat Okudzhava
- Open city competition of patriotic author's song named after Bulat Okudzhava, Perm
- Israeli International Festival in Memory of Bulat Okudzhava
- All-Russian festival of author's song and poetry "Bulat's Song in Kolontaevo"
- All-Russian festival of author's song and poetry "Bulat's Song on Baikal"
Creative heritage
Most famous songs
Published works
“Selected works in 2 volumes” - M., Sovremennik, 1989
Collections of poetry
- “Lyrika” - Kaluga, publishing house of the newspaper “Znamya”, 1956
- “Islands” - M., Soviet writer, 1959
- “The Cheerful Drummer” - M., Soviet writer, 1964
- “On the way to Tinatin” - Tbilisi, Literature and Heaven, 1964
- “Magnanimous March” - M., Soviet writer, 1967
- “20 songs for voice and guitar” - Krakow, PWM, 1973 (Poland)
- “Arbat, my Arbat” - M., Soviet writer, 1976
- In collections "Songs of Russian bards". Texts. Episode 1-4. // Compiled by V. Alloy; design by Lev Nusberg. - Paris, YMCA-Press, 1977-78 (lyrics ~ 77 songs)
- “65 Songs” - Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1980 and 1986 (USA)
- “Poems” - M., Soviet writer, 1984
- “Dedicated to you” - M., Soviet writer, 1988
- “Songs of Bulat Okudzhava. Melodies and texts" - M., Music, 1989
- “Favorites” - M., Moscow worker, 1989
- “The Graces of Fate” - M., Moscow Worker, 1993
- "Waiting hall" - Nizhny Novgorod, Dekom, 1996
- “Tea Party on Arbat” - M., PAN, 1996; M., Crown-print, 1997
- “Poems” - St. Petersburg, Academic Project, 2001 (series “New Poet’s Library”)
Prose
- “The front is coming to us” - M., Children's literature, 1967
- “Poor Avrosimov” (1969, in some subsequent editions - “A Sip of Freedom”)
- “The Adventures of Shipov, or Ancient Vaudeville” - M., Soviet writer, 1975
- “A breath of freedom” - M., Politizdat, 1971 (series “Fiery Revolutionaries”)
- “Lovely Adventures” - Tbilisi, 1971
- “The Journey of Amateurs” - M., Soviet writer, 1979
- “Selected Prose” - M., Izvestia, 1979
- “Date with Bonaparte” - M., Soviet writer, 1985
- “Be healthy, schoolboy!” - M., Pravda, 1987
- “The Girl of My Dreams” - M., Moscow Worker, 1988
- “The Art of Cutting and Sewing” - M., Soviet writer, 1990
- “The Adventures of a Secret Baptist” - M., 1991
- “Tales and Stories” - M., ART, 1992
- “The Adventures of Shipov” - M., Friendship of Peoples, 1992
- “Visiting musician” - M., Olympus, 1993
- “The Abolished Theater” - M., ed. Rusanova, 1995
Other
- "A Breath of Freedom" (1966; play)
Film scripts
- “Loyalty” (1965; co-authored with P. Todorovsky; production: Odessa Film Studio, 1965)
- “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” (1967; co-authored with V. Motyl; production: Lenfilm, 1967) M., Art, 1968
- “The Private Life of Alexander Sergeich, or Pushkin in Odessa” (1966; co-authored with O. Artsimovich; film not produced)
- “We loved Melpomene...” (1978; co-authored with O. Artsimovich; film not produced)
Filmography
Movie roles
- 1962 - Chain Reaction - bus passenger
- 1963 - Zastava Ilyich (“I’m twenty years old”) - cameo - participant in a poetry evening(uncredited)
- 1967 - Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha - military man at the New Year's Eve(uncredited)
- 1975 - Star of Captivating Happiness - conductor at the ball(uncredited)
- 1976 - Non-transferable key - reciter of poems about Pushkin
- 1976 - Strogoffs - Officer
- 1985 - Legal marriage - passenger on the train
- 1986 - Guard me, my talisman - cameo
Songs in films
- 1961 - “Horizon” - lyrics
- 1961 - “My friend, Kolka!” - Lyrics
- 1962 - “Chain Reaction” - first appearance on screen
- 1963 - “Ilyich’s Outpost” - song “I’m 20 years old”
- 1967 - “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” (co-writer of the script, cameo role)
- 1970 - “Theft” - song “Forest Waltz” (“A musician plays a waltz in the forest under a tree”)
- 1970 - “Belorussky Station” - author of the song “We need one victory” (orchestrated by Alfred Schnittke).
- 1970 - “White Sun of the Desert” - lyrics "Your Honor, Lady Luck"
- 1973 - “Dirk” - lyrics of “Songs of the Red Army Soldier” (“The cannon hits blindly”) and “Songs of a homeless child” ( "U Kursky railway station I stand, young...")
- 1974 - “Bronze Bird” - lyrics of the song “You burn, burn, my fire”
- 1974 - “Straw Hat” - lyrics "I'm getting married" and etc.
- 1975 - “Star of Captivating Happiness” - lyrics
- 1975 - “To the Clear Fire” - songs “When it suddenly calms down”, “Frantic and stubborn”, “Hope, I’ll be back”, “My horse”, etc.
- 1975 - “The Adventures of Pinocchio” - lyrics of some songs
- 1975 - “From dawn to dawn” - song "Take your overcoat, let's go home"
- 1977 - “Aty-Bati, the soldiers were coming...” - song "Take your overcoat, let's go home"
- 1977 - “Untransferable Key” - song "Let's shout"
- 1979 - “The wife left” - the song “Another Romance”
- 1981 - “Mushroom Rain” - song “Old Soldier’s Song”
- 1982 - “Pokrovsky Gate” - songs “Painters”, “Song about Arbat”, “Sentries of Love”
- 1982 - “Leave a trace” - author of the song “There is torment by the fire”
- 1983 - “From the life of the head of the criminal investigation department” - songs “Pirate Lyric” and “Song about Fools”
- 1984 - Captain Frakass - song “Autumn Rain”, “Hope’s Painted Door”, “Oh, How the Days Fly by Days” (music by Isaac Schwartz), “Here’s Some Horse”
- 1984 - “Darling, dear, beloved, only” - song “Someone strives to become richer”
- 1985 - “Non-professionals” - songs “Painters”, "Let's join hands, friends"
- 1985 - “Legitimate Marriage” - songs “After the rain, the skies are more spacious...”, “This woman in the window” (“Long winters and summers will never merge...”)
- 1986 - “The Secrets of Madame Wong”, author of the song “The sun is shining, the music is playing”
- 1993 - This woman in the window... - the song of the same name is used
- 1999 - TV series “Happy New Happiness!” - lyrics of the song “Autumn Rain” (music by Isaac Schwartz)
- 2004 - “Copper Grandmother” - song “The past cannot be returned”
- 2005 - “Turkish Gambit” - “Autumn Rain” (performed by Olga Krasko)
- 2013 - “Goodbye, boys” - song “Oh, war, what have you done, vile”
Documentaries
- “I remember a wonderful moment” (Lenfilm)
- “My contemporaries”, Lentelefilm, 1984
- “Two hours with the bards”, Mosfilm, 1988
- “And don’t forget about me”, Russian television, 1992
Discography
Gramophone records
- Songs of Bulat Okudzhava. Melodiya, 1966. D 00016717-8
- Le Soldat en Papier(Paris, Le Chant du Mond; 1968)
- Bulat Okudzhava. Songs. Melodiya, 1973. 33D-00034883-84
- Bulat Okudzhava. Songs (poems and music). Performed by the author. Melodiya, 1976. M40 38867
- Songs based on poems by Bulat Okudzhava. Melodiya, 1978. M40 41235
- Bulat Okudzhava. Songs. Melodiya, 1978. G62 07097
- Bulat Okudzhava. Songs. Performed by Bulat Okudzhava. Melodiya, 1981. С60 13331
- Okudzhava Bulat. Songs and poems about the war. Melody, 1985
- Disc of songs. (“Balkanton”, Bulgaria, 1985. VTK 3804)
- Bulat Okudzhava. Songs and poems about the war. Performed by the author. Recording of the All-Union Recording Studio and phonograms of films from 1969-1984. Melodiya, 1985. M40 46401 003
- Okudzhava Bulat. New songs. Recording 1986 Melodiya, 1986. С60 25001 009
- Bulat Okudzhava. A song, short, like life itself... Performed by the author. Recording 1986 Melodiya, 1987. С62 25041 006
- Songs based on Bulat Okudzhava's poems from films. Melody
Cassette
- Bulat Okudzhava. While the earth is still spinning. Records of M. Kryzhanovsky 1969-1970. Licensed by SoLyd Records. Moscow Windows LLP, 1994. MO 005
CDs
- Bulat Okudzhava. While the earth is still spinning. Records of M. Kryzhanovsky 1969-1970. SoLyd Records, 1994. SLR 0008
- Bulat Okudzhava. And like first love... Licensed by Le Chant du Mond, recorded 1968. SoLyd Records, 1997. SLR 0079
Albums
- Re-release of the French album by Bulat Okudzhava, recorded in the studio Le Chant du Monde in 1967
- The first Soviet album by Bulat Okudzhava. Recorded 1974-1975, 1976 release
- The second Soviet album by Bulat Okudzhava. Recorded and released 1978
- Album “The Author Performs New Songs”, mid-80s
Literature
- K. Rudnitsky. "Songs of Okudzhava and Vysotsky." // magazine “Theatrical Life”, 1987, No. 14-15
- Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava: [Bibliography. 1945-1993] / Comp. I. V. Khanukaeva // Rus. writers. Poets: (Soviet period). Bibliography decree. - T. 16. - St. Petersburg: Ros. national b-ka, 1994. - P. 180-275.
- Bykov D. L. Bulat Okudzhava. - M.: Young Guard, 2009. - 784 p. (Series “Life of Remarkable People”).
- Voice of hope: New information about Bulat Okudzhava. Vol. 1-10 / Comp. A. E. Krylov. M.: Bulat, 2004-2013.
- Gizatulin M. Bulat Okudzhava: “... from the very beginning” - M.: Bulat, 2008.
- Kulagin A.V. Lyrics of Bulat Okudzhava: Popular scientific. feature article. - M.: Bulat; Kolomna: KSPI, 2009. - 320 p.
- Tumanov V. Listening to Okudzhava: Twenty-Three Aural Comprehension Exercises in Russian. Newburyport MA: Focus Publishing R. Pullins & Company. 1996. 2nd. Ed: 2000.
- Lemkhin M. A. “The photographer clicks and the bird flies out.” - Los Angeles, Bulat Okudzhava USA Cultural Fund, 2015. - 78 p.