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Matvei Isaakovich Blanter (b. in Pochep
Pochep

Pochep is a types of settlements in Russia in Bryansk Oblast of Russia, 84 km south-west of Bryansk. Populat






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Matvei Isaakovich Blanter (b. in Pochep
Pochep

Pochep is a types of settlements in Russia in Bryansk Oblast of Russia, 84 km south-west of Bryansk. Population: 17,064 .History ...
, then Chernigov Governorate
Chernigov Governorate

The Chernigov Governorate , also known as the Government of Chernigov, was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire, which was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Malorossiya Governorate with an administrative center of Chernigov ....
 of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
  - d. Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 27 September 1990) was one of the most important composers of popular and film music in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 was born into a family of a poor Jewish artisan.

Among many other songs, he wrote the immensely popular "Katyusha
Katyusha (song)

Katyusha, Katusha or Katjusha is a Russian Soviet Union wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service....
", and "Song about Shchors
Nikolay Shchors

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shchors was a talented Ukrainians military commander, renowned for his personal courage during the Russian Civil War. In 1918-1919 he fought against the German invaders and later commanded the Bogunsky regiment, brigade, 1st Ukrainian Soviet division and 44th rifle division against Petlyura and Polish invaders....
". He was active as a composer until 1975, producing more than two thousand songs.