Poloskin, Boris Pavlovich

Boris Pavlovich Poloskin was born on February 18, 1932 in Leningrad in a working class family. Mother was from peasants. Father died in the Finnish campaign. During World War II, Boris and his brother Tolya were evacuated. Mother remained in the besieged Leningrad.

After the Victory, he returned to Leningrad and a month later was assigned to the 1st Leningrad school of military musicians in the clarinet class. He also studied in the school literary circle.

In 1948, after graduating from a military guard school, ordinary early-clarinet player Boris Poloskin entered the ninth grade evening school for working youth, graduated with a silver medal, and in 1950 became a student at the M. I. Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute .

In 1956 he graduated from the institute with a degree in research engineer. Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences . He worked at the Physicotechnical Institute. A.F. Ioffe , associate professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Management Methods and Techniques and at the Military Institute .

Hobbies - sports tourism , hunting , gardening . USSR master of sports in tourism, judge of the All-Union category, senior instructor-methodologist in water tourism. Honored Traveler of Russia. The author of a number of methodological works on tourism technology. He led the program “Tourist TV Club” on Leningrad Television.

He died on November 17, 2018 in St. Petersburg after a serious illness.

During his studies at the institute, he went to student groups and got acquainted with student songs there. Participated in amateur performances. He began to sing at student evenings to the accompaniment of the accordion, which was played by comrade B. Poloskin on the student bench, and later on hiking, co-author of his songs, colleague Oleg Shcherbinin. Then Yuri Ilmenkov joined the duet with a guitar, and the ensemble formed: Boris soloed, Yuri accompanied on the guitar and sang in a second voice, Oleg accompanied on the accordion and played the third voice. Such a lineup performed for many years, and after graduation they sang their songs on radio and television.

In 1967, as part of the creative youth of Leningrad, he was in the GDR .

B. Poloskin played a seven-string guitar . He wrote songs since 1956 mainly on his poems, as well as on the poems of M. Agashina , A. Azizov, A. Sajay, N. Konchalovskaya, R. Gamzatov , N. Slepakova and other poets. The first song is “Taiga”.

In recent years, wrote prose. Stories and novels are published in periodicals.

Winner of tourist song contests of the I and III All-Union rallies of winners of trips to places of military glory (Brest, 1965 and Leningrad, 1967, the song "Music is waiting"), I All-Union competition of tourist song in Moscow in 1965 (the song "What to do with sadness") . Member of the jury of the 3rd and subsequent Grushinsky festivals , as well as the Northwest festivals in Sosnovy Bor, on the Solovetsky Islands and several others. Member of the Vostok song club since its inception.

• Audio discs:
  • “... Like a breeze through the rye field”, St. Petersburg studio, s / r G. Lyubimov, M. Kryzhanovsky, 2002.
  • “With a smoke”, s / r A. Aleksandrov, 2003.
  • “If you know a song, you sing it to me”, arranged by z / p S. Ilyin, 2003.
  • “Voice of the sixties”, recording 1965, N. Kurchev, s / r A. Alexandrov, 2004.
  • “Autumn Rainbow” with the participation of Olga Goncharova, s / r A. Alexandrov, 2007.
  • “Music is Waiting” (MP3 collection), ed. RMG Records, V. Dolzhansky, 2007.
• Audio cassettes:
  • “I love,” ed. Caravel firm, V. Waskovsky, 1995.
  • "Birch bark certificate", ed. Club "East", Z. Ruder, 1997.
  • “With a smoke”, s / r A. Aleksandrov, 2003.
  • “If you know a song, you sing it to me”, arranged by S. Ilyin, 2003.
• Records:
  • “... Like a breeze through the rye field”, the company “Melody”, s / r G. Lyubimov, M. Kryzhanovsky, 1989.

The most famous songs:

• “We are familiar with the view of the station platform ...”
• "And who knows where it came from ..."
• "As if to spite ..."
• “We walked along and across ...” (“Music is waiting”)
• "We are leaving for the suburbs ..."
• “Cranes fly over me ...”
• "Oh Woman! .."
• "Plowing Russia is just like ..."
• “Let birches forgive you ...”
• “Printing a print is easy ...”
• "The sorrow of the circled poplars ..."
• “Listen, you know how to eagerly listen to singing ...” (“Thirst”)
• “A sad bear is walking ...”
• “What should women do in remaking? ..”
• “I love” (imitation and stylization of the song of Joel Olmes “La vie s'en va” ^{[1] [2]} )
• “I live on an island ...”

• Poloskin B.P. “Hopes and Despair”. - St. Petersburg, “Boyanych”, 2002. - 112 p. - ISBN 5-7199-0133-7 .
• Poloskin B. P. "Musical stories: short stories, essays, songs." - St. Petersburg, “Boyanych”, 2006. - 504 p. - ISBN 5-7199-0275-9 .
• Poloskin B.P. "Laws of the River: River Pilot". - St. Petersburg, “Boyanych”, 2008. - 204 p. - ISBN 978-5-7199-0327-9 .
• Poloskin B. P. "Beyond the Runaway Horizon: Stories, Essays, Songs." - St. Petersburg: Boyanych, 2003, 148 p., Ill. ISBN 5-7199-0177-9 .
• Poloskin B.P. “Let's Record a Song: A Musical Charter for Bards”, 2nd ed. - SPb., Boyanych, 2005.148 s. ISBN 5-7199-0210-4 .

Poems, songs by B.P. Poloskin, stories about him are also in the books:

• “From the bonfire to the microphone. From the history of amateur songs in Leningrad. ” - St. Petersburg: Respex, 1996. - 528 p. - ISBN 5-7345-0072-0 .
• "Grushinsky: the festival chronicle of 1968-2000." - Comp. V. Shabanov. - St. Petersburg: “Boyanych”, “Lyceum”, 2001. - 400 p. ISBN 5-7199-0130-2 , ISBN 5-8452-0258-2 .
• “The coast of hope. Songs of Leningrad authors. 1950-1960 years. " - Comp. A. Levitan, M. Levitan. - St. Petersburg: “Boyanych”, 2002. - 448 p. - ISBN 5-7199-0153-1 .
• “The singing soul. Songs of Leningrad authors. 1970s. ”- St. Petersburg: All-Russian Cathedral, 2008. - 864 p. - ISBN 978-5-903097-23-4 .

• Author's site of B.P. Poloskin
• Pages of B.P. Poloskin on the site www.bards.ru
• Club song "East" (St. Petersburg)