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'''Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Лев Валерьянович Лещенко}}; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pnUd_SdGrrsC&dq=Lev+Leshchenko+singer&pg=PA201 David MacFadyen, Red Stars: Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955–1991] McGill-Queen's Press, 2001, {{ISBN|9780773521063}}, 319 p.</ref> who is best known for his rendition of "[[Den Pobedy]]" and the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] closing ceremony theme song "[[Do
==Biography==
Lev Leshchenko was born on 1 February 1942 in Moscow, [[Soviet Union]]. His father, Valerian Andreyevich Leshchenko (1904–2004), was a Red Army officer who was at war outside of Moscow. His grandfather was from the village of Nizy in the Kharkov province, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. In 1900, he moved to the Kursk province, where he got a job as an accountant at a factory. Grandfather Leshchenko was a musical person: he sang in the church choir, played many instruments. Lev Valeryanovich's father moved to Moscow in 1931. Having gone through the
Between 1959 and 1960, Leshchenko worked as a stagehand at the [[Bolshoi Theatre|State Academic Bolshoi Theatre]], and before being conscripted into the [[Soviet Red Army|army]] in 1961, he worked as an adjuster at a [[Arithmetic precision|precision measuring]] instrument [[Enterprises in the Soviet Union|factory]]. Leschenko served in the mechanical vehicle division of the Soviet Army, positioned in the [[German Democratic Republic]]. On 27 January 1962, Leshchenko (then a private) became a soloist within the [[Alexandrov ensemble|Soviet Red Army Ensemble]], and received an offer to remain in the army. Leshchenko accepted every role offered to him by the ensemble, from singing in a quarter, conducting concerts and even reading verses, where it is said his entertainment career began. At the same time, he was preparing for the theatrical examinations of the [[Russian Academy of Theatre Arts]] (abbreviated as GITIS), the most respected theatrical school of the [[Soviet Union]], which he passed and was successfully admitted to in September 1964.<ref>[http://music.russiansabroad.com/detail.aspx?id=pop&detail=leshchenko Russiansabroad.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824100247/http://music.russiansabroad.com/detail.aspx?id=pop&detail=leshchenko |date=24 August 2007 }}</ref>
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