| Biography | Nikolai Timofeyevich (28 December 1920, Kobeliaky, Russia - 25 March 2003, Simferopol, Ukraine) was a Russian tenor soloist and an Honoured Artist of Russia (1966).
During World War II he sustained an injury resulting in a brain contusion. From 1946 he was a soloist of the Black Sea Fleet Ensemble. From 1955 to 1963 he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, and his debut with the Bolshoi was 11 February 1956 in Moscow. He then joined the Alexandrov Ensemble until 1973. After leaving the Ensemble he worked briefly in Moscow teaching automobile engineering, then moved to Simferopol in the Ukraine, where he became an administrator in the Simferopol Philharmonic Society. |