Yakovlev, Oleg Zhamsaraevich

Oleg Yakovlev was born on November 18, 1969 in Choibalsan ( Mongolia ) ^[3] . It was there that the parents met. 36-year-old Russian language teacher Buryat Lyudmila Zhamsaraevna (she worked in a military unit), I liked the 18-year-old young man from Uzbekistan. He was on leave, and he liked her too. They met only a few times, and when Oleg was born, a military court forced his father to marry, but Lyudmila did not want this, and her father left for his homeland in Uzbekistan. The mother gave her son the patronymic of her father - Zhamsaraevich. Oleg never saw his father and didn’t even know his name, because his mother never talked about his father. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

I remember, and as a teacher - in Ulan Bator I went to first grade - I tried to retrain me, left-handed, write with my right hand. "

- ^[9]

He returned to the USSR at the age of 8 ^[10] , with his mother and two older sisters he lived in the village. Selenginsk, Kabansky district of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , where he began his first steps in the musical field, namely, he began studying at the Selenginskiy Art School No. 1 in the piano class ^[11] .

As a child, he was fully loaded: studying at school, a music school, and sports sections. He brought diplomas from school about diligent behavior and good study. Lidia Yuryevna Fomicheva is a favorite teacher at the Selenginsky School of Music No. 1, a piano teacher. She taught us to ride a bicycle, fed us. We are in a relationship. I remember how she told me that if I continue my career as a pianist, I will be very successful.

- ^[5]

Later, the family moved to Angarsk . Oleg loved humanitarian subjects ^[12] , sang in the choir at the Palace of Pioneers ^[13] , studied in the sports section of athletics, was a candidate for master of sports.

I started working early enough. Mom was very hard: it was difficult to raise three children for her teacher's salary. When I was at school in Angarsk, my friends and I fled to the taiga to collect ferns . Then they sold it to the Japanese. They paid 50 cents per kilogram, and we brought 25 kilos. By those standards, it was good money. He gave all his earnings to his mother.

Since then, I can fully provide myself without outside help - I can cook, sew, wash and even knit. In his youth, for example, he knitted socks for himself.

- ^[6]

He graduated from the school in Angarsk ^[5] .

Theatrical career

He graduated from the Irkutsk Theater School with honors in the profession "actor of a puppet theater . " But he did not like to be behind the screen; he worked in the Irkutsk Puppet Theater for less than a month. ^{[8] [14]} .

Then he went to Moscow . He entered immediately at the Shchukin School , Moscow Art Theater and GITIS ^[8] , chose GITIS (studied in the workshop of Lyudmila Kasatkina ) ^[12] , in 1990, starred in the film “ One Hundred Days Before Order ”.

While studying in the third year of GITIS, he played King Lear and realized that he was bored in the theater. He worked with Lyubov Polishchuk , Maxim Sukhanov in the musical of Maxim Dunaevsky , starred in the vgikovskoy short film (workshop of Marlena Khutsieva ). ^[fifteen]

The fact is that I was a student, and I needed to live somewhere. And then the janitors were given a large room in a Stalinist house in the center of Moscow. Even Viktor Tsoi , as you know, worked as a fireman so that he had his own corner. So I was in a similar position. And it seems that I had the best housing - 35 meters and a five-meter ceiling. I could only buy my own apartment in 2003. And at that time he milled and washed the streets in the morning, then ran to a rehearsal in the theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, after lunch he was a janitor again, and in the evening he played a performance.

- ^[9]

After graduation, he was personally invited by Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan to work in his theater , worked as a janitor, got up at 6 in the morning, cleaned up and fled to rehearsal at 10. ^{[16] [17]}

He considered Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan his "second father."

Oleg about Dzhigarkhanyan: - “I am very grateful to him: this is my teacher, this is the person who gave me a ticket to life. He is a unique artist, actor from God. Also caring, he became like a father to me. The only thing - of course, he was upset that I went into popular music. And at meetings he told me: “Oleg, you can always come to my theater”.

There were not so many of us in that troupe, and almost all of them were nonresident. So he paid us a salary out of his money, personally, even somehow embarrassed, brought it in envelopes. In general, he is a wonderful person and I admire him. ”

- ^{[18] [19]}

He participated in the performances "Cossacks", "Twelfth Night", "Lev Gurych Sinichkin." During the years of work with Dzhigarkhanyan, he worked part time on the radio - recorded ads ^[16] , starred in the main role in the video of Alla Pugacheva for the song “River Tram”. ^[9]

He saw on television an announcement that Ivanushki was looking for a new soloist in return for Igor Sorin when he worked at the theater of Alexei Rybnikov . Oleg recorded the song “White Rosehip” from the rock opera “ Juno and Avos ” and “Georgia”, he put a cassette of these songs in an envelope, and mailed Igor Matvienko by mail to the production center, hoping that he would be given a job in the studio. ^{[15] [16]}

Ivanushki International

He worked in the Ivanushki International group, in his own words, for 17 years ^[20] , as the main soloist for 15 years (from 1998 to 2013).

In 1997, he took part in the recording of the album Your letters , starred and sang in the video clip for the song “Doll” along with the other members of the group “ Ivanushki International ”, and in March 1998 became its full-time soloist, after Igor Sorin left the beginning of the year a group. ^[13] .

In Kirov, “Ivanushki” was composed of four people on March 2, 1998, then Igor Sorin announced his resignation, Oleg Yakovlev sang his songs, and on March 3 Sorin was supposed to leave, his fans screamed and whistled when Oleg sang, it seemed to them that With the departure of Sorin, the group will fall apart, after the song “Raspberry” was performed, Oleg had tears in his eyes, and after the concert, the fans beat Oleg with their hands. ^[21]

Initially, it was tight, fans of Sorin at the concerts chanted - "Igor, Igor!" Thanks to Matvienko for writing “Poplar Fluff” for me, and people understood that I was different in timbre, I was different visually, mentally, I had completely different interests. When self-awareness took place, then people immediately felt. With "Poplar fluff" I found myself exactly vocal, the timbre of "Masha's Dolls" went away, and from that moment everything immediately became completely different. The girls realized that I did not imitate Sorin, I became Oleg Yakovlev.

- ^[7]

In March 2013 he finished performing in the group, ^[22] officially continuing to be listed as its soloist, after leaving the group he sololy performed the songs “Ivanushki”. ^[23]

Time passed, but there were no new songs. Almost every taxi driver began to ask me: “Are Ivanushki still alive?” For a long time no new songs have been heard. " It was painful to hear this, involuntarily pushed to the decision to leave the group.

- ^[15]

His place was taken by the Ukrainian singer Kirill Turichenko ^[24] .

Discography as part of the Ivanushki International group

• 1997 - Your letters (backing vocals)
• 1999 - About this I will scream all night
• 2000 - Wait for me
• 2002 - Oleg Andrey Kirill

Clips as part of the Ivanushki International group

Solo career (2012—2017)

In 2012, Oleg Yakovlev began a solo career, deciding to temporarily move away from work in Ivanushki and prepare a solo program ^[25] .

Oleg left the group in March 2013, he was supported by Alexandra Kutsevol, she became its director and producer, took on organizational issues and PR, Alexandra was a TV presenter and television journalist, worked for Muz-TV , as a director, she shot the film for the 15th anniversary of the group “Ivanushki” International. " Igor Matvienko allowed him to perform songs of the Ivanushki International group. ^[7]

Oleg Yakovlev: I believe that Sasha has ruined the group, such a Yoko Ono syndrome. She began to say - you are the best, maybe that's the way it is. In fact, it gave me a lot of strength and faith in myself. Even before 2013, I tortured Matvienko for three or four years, showed songs that I compose. Sasha affirmed that I could be a solo artist. I am grateful to her for having several years ahead, I want to release a solo disc, I want to release a couple of hits, I want to make very beautiful videos. You understand that in a group I would never do that. I was one of three there, and now I'm a solo unit.

- ^[7]

The first video “Dance with closed eyes” was shot on vacation during the “honeymoon” in the Maldives , Alexandra Kutsevol and Oleg Yakovlev starred in it. ^[7]

Sickness and death

On June 28, 2017, the media reported that Oleg Yakovlev was hospitalized in serious condition, subsequently was in intensive care with a diagnosis of “bilateral pneumonia caused by cirrhosis of the liver ” ^[26] .

June 29 at 07:05 am the singer died at the 48th year of life in one of the clinics in Moscow ^[27] . The cause of death was cardiac arrest ^{[28] [29]} .

Farewell to Oleg Yakovlev took place on July 1 in the Troekurovsky house Necropolis. The body is cremated at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow ^[30] .

On August 7 , on the 40th day after death, the ashes were buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow (plot No. 15, grave No. 664) ^{[31] [32] [33] [34]} .

Version of the death of Oleg Yakovlev

In 2018, producer Igor Matvienko , answering a question about the true causes of the death of Ivanushki soloists, noted that Oleg Yakovlev was killed by alcohol addiction , and Igor Sorin was killed by drug addiction ^{[35] [36]} .

Legacy

According to the will, his property in the amount of 200 million rubles ^[37] : 3 apartments and a room in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Montenegro - goes to the niece Tatyana and university friend actor Roman Radov. ^{[38] [39] [40]}

Family

• Mother - Lyudmila Zhamsaraevna Gombozhava (virgin. Yakovleva) (July 16, 1933 ^[41] —1996) ^[6] - teacher of the Russian language and literature, had diabetes ^{[37] [13]} , Buryat , when Oleg was born, his mother was 36 years old, but in an interview he said that 42 ^[6] ;
• Father (born 1950) ^[6] is a military man, an Uzbek , he never saw his father, his father’s name is unknown, Oleg’s middle name is the same as his mother’s. ^[6] Mother was a Buddhist and father was a Muslim , Oleg himself professed Orthodoxy ^{[14] [42]} .
  • Two sisters from different fathers - Svetlana (1955-2010) and Dora (born 1962). ^{[10] [6]}
    • Tatiana’s niece (born 1977), ^[37] from her older sister Svetlana (her sister died of cancer in 2010 ^[37] ),
      • Foster son (grand-nephew) - Igor Olegovich Yakovlev (born 1997), son of Tatiana’s niece ^[43]
      • Grand-nephew: Mark Yakovlev. ^{[6] [44]}

Personal life

Met in his student years with Elena Grishchenko, who later became an actress of the Irkutsk Youth Theater ^[45] .

In 2001, he lived with singer Irina Dubtsova . ^{[46] [6]}

He lived in an official marriage registered in Serbia with Alexandra Valerievna Kutsevol (born September 7, 1981, Nefteyugansk ) ^[47] .

Sport

He studied in the sports section of athletics , was a candidate for master of sports . He was fond of playing billiards ^[12] .

Clips of other artists

• 2001 - Alla Pugacheva - “ River Tram ” (starred with Renata Litvinova )

Of course, I was surprised when Alla Borisovna invited me to star in the video. By the way, few people recognize me there, because I was then dark. It was very nice, because the work was very sincere. And when Alla Borisovna called and said: “Oleg, thank you very much,” there could be no better reward for me. Because when I was little, I listened to her songs, I never thought that I could help her as an artist.

- ^[18]

Wrote a script for the cartoon, started writing a script for the film. ^[48]

• “Igor Sorin and Oleg Yakovlev” from the “Farewell” cycle ( TVC , 2017).

Together with Alexandra Kutsevol, he hosted the VKontakte Live TV program on the youth music channel Russian Musicbox. ^{[16] [49]}