Gubin, Nikolay Innokentyevich

Born February 2, 1947 in the city of Kolpashevo , Tomsk Region . Father - Gubin Innokenty Ivanovich, front-line soldier, holder of the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree ^[2] . Mother - Gubina (Shnurova) Praskovya Filippovna, was awarded a number of medals of war and peace ^[3] .

Even at school, Nikolai independently mastered a number of wind and folk musical instruments. He worked in the city brass and pop orchestra. In 1965, after graduating from Kolpashevskaya secondary school No. 5, he directed the brass band of the Kolpashevsky pedagogical school. In 1967 he moved to the city of Seversk , where he studied at a music school and worked in various creative groups (from 1967 to 1971 he was an artist and soloist of the Birch Jazz Orchestra, the Operetta Theater orchestra, and the Musical Drama Theater Orchestra).

In 1972 he graduated from the Tomsk Music College . Edison Denisov (department of wind instruments, clarinet class) and entered the Military Conducting Department at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory . (Class prof. Berlin PM)

In 1973, as part of the consolidated orchestra of the Moscow garrison, he participated in a military parade on Red Square . In 1974, he made his first recording on All-Union Radio . In 1975 he made a translation from the English book by G. Miller “My method of arrangement”. In 1977, he successfully completed his studies at the Military Conducting Department and was promoted to officer.

From 1977 to 1981 he served in the Military Orchestras of the Red Banner Far Eastern Military District (KDVO). The test of the pen in the creation of works for a military orchestra belongs to the same period of time.

Since 1982 - garrison military conductor of the Guards Naumburg Division. From 1982 to 1987 he served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSVG).

Since 1985 - artistic director and conductor of Russian programs at the Consolidated Military Orchestra of the Warsaw Pact countries . He made a significant contribution to the promotion of Russian and Soviet military music.

From 1988 to 1992, he served in the military orchestras of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District (LenVO) (Luga, Polyarnye Zori). During this period of time, the newspaper “Luga Pravda” published a number of local history articles devoted to the life and work of composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky on the Luga land.

In 1988, he completed a refresher course in the specialty of "military conducting", after which he served as the head of the orchestra.

In 1992, on transfer to the reserve, he withstood the competition for filling the post of artistic director and chief conductor of the Lipetsk Symphony Orchestra and moved to the city of Lipetsk . ^[four]

Between 1995 and 2010, he wrote a series of sharp journalistic articles ^{[5] [6] [7]} , created a series of poetic ^[8] and prose collections ^[9] , and wrote memoirs.

In 2012, he suffered a serious illness that led to visual impairment. In 2014, after a series of operations, he resumed social, musical and creative activities. In 2017, he was nominated for a literary prize named after Sergei Yesenin.

In 2010, he founded the international professional Internet community “Millennium Military Bandmaster” ^[10] . Under his leadership, community officers entered state bodies with the initiative of holding the annual V. Agapkin International Brass Band Festival.

Since 2011, a special place in the work of Nikolai Gubin has been occupied by many years of permanent work on the content of the music and public Internet site MARCH MILLENNIUM ^[1] . Initially ^{[11] the} site was dedicated to the 100-year history of the Russian military march “ Farewell of the Slav ”, however, comprehensive studies of the social essence of the issue gradually began to dominate, and now the site has become a real music and public platform for a two-million audience of march fans from several countries of the world ^{[ significance of fact? ]} .

Since 2012 Nikolay Gubin has been the permanent coordinator of the Internet action. DAYS OF WORLDWIDE PERFORMANCE OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY MARCH "FAREWELL TO THE SLAVANKA" The campaign is held around the world during the Agapkin International Brass Band Festival in the homeland of the march in the city of Tambov.

State

• Medal "For Impeccable Service" 3 degrees (1983)
• Medal "For Impeccable Service" 2 degrees (1988)
• Medal "For Impeccable Service" 1 degree (1993)
• Anniversary medal "60 years of the armed forces" (1978)
• Anniversary medal "70 years of the armed forces" (1988)
• Anniversary sign "40 years of Victory" (1985)
• Gratitude of the Minister of Defense of the USSR (1973)

Departmental

• Anniversary medal “100 years to the march FAREWELL OF SLAVANIA” (2012)
• Insignia of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “300 years of military music of Russia” (2013)
• Insignia of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" (2014)
• Anniversary medal "50 years of the VDF MGK" (1975)
• Anniversary medal “80 years of the VIVD VU” (2017)

Foreign

• The Golden Needle “35 years of the GDR” (1983)
• Silver medal of the Society of German-Soviet Friendship (1984)
• Silver badge "For achievements in patriotic work" (1986)

Public

• Breastplate of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture (1987)
• Diploma of the Russian Imperial House of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna (2014)

Honors

• "Master of Folk Art of Germany" (1986) ^[12]

• Marching March (1977)
• Counter March (1978)
• Fanfare March “Zarnitsa” (1983)
• Anti-aircraft gunners song (1983)
• Scout's Song (1988)
• Naumburg Fanfare (1985)

• Friendship law. Luzhskaya Pravda N96 / 13555 of June 16, 1989
• On the fate of the piano of the composer. Luga truth N175 / 13634 dated November 1, 1989
• Here the music should sound. Luga truth N153 / 13612 of August 3, 1989
• A generous summer in Smychkovo. Luga truth N164 / 13622 of August 16, 1989
• Need a cultural program. Luga truth N148 / 14622 of June 15, 1989
• From the year of Musorsky to the year of Tchaikovsky. Luga truth N46 / 13719 dated March 21, 1989
• Dedicated to the great composer. Luga truth N 58/13719 of April 7, 1990
• Russian Carmen. Luzhskaya Pravda N 72/13729 dated May 5, 1990
• In Nezhgovitsy. Luzhskaya Pravda N 92/13759 of June 8, 1990
• Prince Igor Opera is 100 years old. Luzhskaya Pravda N169 / 13836 dated October 23, 1990
• Forgotten Overture. Luga truth N56 / 13931 dated April 6, 1991

• Lira on uniform. Personal site of Nikolai Gubin [1]
  
• MILLENNIUM MARCH. Website for the 100th anniversary of the march "Farewell of the Slav" [2]
  
• Material from the popular science magazine ORCHESTRA
• Chertok M. D. Melody of the Millennium // Orchestra. M. 2017, No. 3-4 (48-49). S. 19-21. [3]