As Actor
Memories of the "Cow March"
1991
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Leonid Utyosov
Acting
Birth Date
March 21, 1895
Place of Birth
Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Date of Death
March 9, 1982
Biography
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
