Atlas, Maria

Mother: Kazachkova (Vishnevskaya) Elizaveta Izrailevna: engineer, senior researcher - lives in the USA. Father: Yuri Abramovich Kazachkov, a scientist, chief consultant in the field of wind energy at Siemens, lives in the United States. ^[one]

Brother: Kazachkov Mikhail Yurievich - professor, pediatrician pulmonologist, radio presenter and songwriter and singer, works at NYU Hospital - lives in the USA. ^[2]

Maternal uncle: Boris Izrailevich Vishnevsky - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Department of Diagnostics Laboratory of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, St. Petersburg, Russia. ^[3]

Atlas is the stage name and surname of the maternal grandmother.

From childhood, Maria grew up in a very creative atmosphere. Parents and brother, relatives and friends of the family constantly played music and composed poems and whole performances, owned musical instruments, sang and composed songs and staged skits. Maria also took part in family, school and choral concerts, took piano and guitar lessons and sang in the Leningrad radio and television choir led by Yu. M. Slavnitsky .

Maria in childhood was involved in sports - volleyball and swimming.

Husband - Denis Vyacheslavovich Zabiyaka , sound engineer at the Moscow Theater "Peter Fomenko Workshop" , DJ, founder of the music company Zabiyaka records.

She starred in such famous Russian and foreign directors as: Andrei Konchalovsky , Yegor Konchalovsky , Maria Sahakyan , Michael Hoffman .

From 1992 to 1999, Mary lived in New York. Studied at the acting studio of Robert Patterson ^{[4] [5]}

In 2019, she completed an intensive international acting course under the guidance of Luci Lenox FRANK STEIN STUDIO (Barcelona). ^[6]

She worked on Russian TV in the USA in the company of producer Gregory Antimoni “Vostok entertainment” as a correspondent and author of stories in New York, New York, the author’s program of Alexander Gordon , which aired in 1994–2000 on TV-6.

For some time she was the host of the TV program "Club of Lonely Hearts" also produced by "Vostok entertainment" for the TV-6 channel.

In the late 1990s, Maria began her musical career - she worked with studios in Miami and New York, then began working with Russian pop and rap star Bogdan Titomir . ^[7] He co-produced her first album Without You ^[8] , released by the New York music label Sweet Rains records ^[9]

In 1999, Maria, along with Bogdan, began giving concerts in New York and then went on a tour of Russia.

In 2000, Maria entered VGIK in the acting studio of I.L. Reichelgauz and began to participate in the performances of the Theater School of the Modern Play .

Then Maria began acting in Russian cinema. ^[10]

In 2003, Maria met and married Andrei Popov, a photographer, cameraman, and public figure in culture and art. ^[eleven]

In 2011, Maria Atlas made the directorial debut. "Crossroads" is a short film shot in the framework of the film almanac "Awakening" in the spring of 2011 in the Suzdal district. ^[12]

In 2016, she was the producer of the television play "About the Plot Milica and her not activated backup." She played the main role in it. The idea of ​​the project is to combine the theatrical aesthetics with the television, with “seams out”. All scenes are shot by the camera crew, immediately processed and immediately presented to the viewer. The action takes place in three space-time coordinates. ^[13]

He is the producer of the films “Endless dreams of happiness”. ^[14] and “1961” about the impending assassination attempt on Rudolf Nuriev (the film is under development, another prod. Ser is Gosha Kutsenko).

Now Maria Atlas is collaborating with the theater laboratory MishnLab ^[15]

In the play "Adventure Romance" immediately plays 4 roles. ^[16]

Maria Atlas is a creative producer and cameo of the animated musical web series PG-13 ^[17] . The author of the song "Come to my party" ^[18] . The soloist of the band PLS! R and songwriter. ^[19]

Two songs by Maria and her co-authors from the PLS! R group "Cloudy Sky" and "Come to my party" in 2016 and 2018 in the nomination of the music video became semi-finalists of the world's most prestigious song contest in the United States The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in the jury which includes Tom Waits and other music masters. ^[twenty]

In 2003, Maria, together with Andrei Popov and theater director Philip Grigoryan, created the Game 3000 Non-Profit Partnership, one of the first art organizations in Russia to harmonize space through culture and art (later renamed the Game 3000 Creative Union) ^{[ 21]}

A little later, Philip Grigoryan left the Game 3000 and concentrated on theater directing, and Maria and Andrei Popov became pioneers in the field of Public art and socio-cultural charity projects in Russia. They worked closely with the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Government of Moscow, a number of Charity Foundations, with famous artists and cultural and art workers and gained wide fame through authorship and implementation of such unique art projects as:

- Costumed Ball in honor of the opening after the restoration of the Yeliseyevsky deli (together with Philip Grigoryan); - The project for painting facades of houses by artists was first officially implemented in the center of Moscow; - The Line project for voicing the Sokolniki branch of the Moscow metro with the voices of famous actors (together with Philip Grigoryan, Ekaterina Popova and Sergey Moskalyov) ^[22] - The annual International Art Project The World Bench (officially the longest bench in the world) - ^[23] ; - The annual Peace Class charity project - a theatrically dramatic inclusive project for adolescents from various ethnic groups and social backgrounds ^[24]

In 2014, teenagers with disabilities, graduates of the World Class project, became honorary flag carriers during the closing ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympics ^[25]

During their joint career, Maria and Andrei became the authors and organizers and producers of many exhibitions, performances, festivals, art projects and the movie "Endless Dreams of Happiness" ^[26] and a number of short films.

April 15, 2012, on the day of the bright Easter holiday, the Easter art festival "Live Art" was held near the walls of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, which was attended by tens of thousands of Muscovites and guests of the capital. ^[27] Maria Atlas and Andrei Popov were the first to come up with and implement these Easter installations that have become familiar today - eggs and invited artists to paint them. ^[28]

Maria is actively involved in social entrepreneurship. The project “Caps of the World” is a confirmation of this. SHAPKI MIRA is more than a brand: it is a socio-cultural project. Varied, cozy, brightly woolen hand-knitted products. Craftswomen - grandmothers who know a lot about knitting, are united by the founders of the brand for a common work. Each product is created with attention and love. Such a purchase for themselves and for loved ones is more than a gift, it is participation and support of the poor and female labor. Many single grandmothers do not want to receive material assistance for nothing, work for them is the meaning of life, an incentive and the opportunity to communicate. Each product is their diligence, joy, hope, interest in life and connection with the world. And this approach brought the brand success: the hats of the world fell in love and began to acquire not only metropolitan mods, but also Russian and foreign stores and companies. ^[29]

“The idea belongs to Andrei Popov - we met on the Line project, the very one where the names of the stations in the subway were voiced by famous Russian artists. Andrei has always been a generator of such ideas, and I develop these ideas, I am responsible for communications, and I am looking for partners. Our creative association is called “Game 3000”, which includes “Caps of the World”, and, for example, “Bench of the World”: well-known artists - Andrey Bartenev, Alexander Zakharov, Vinogradov and Dubosarsky and others - paint shops that we either sell later charity auction, or give hospitals and orphanages. We do not do business as such, because business is in our pocket, and the money received from one socio-cultural project is invested in the next one, but the main funding comes from the state and sponsors. The artists, artists and musicians who participate in our events are always happy to support such initiatives. We can quickly raise the necessary money for the medical needs of children and for gifts, ”said Maria Atlas. ^[thirty]

The international art project “Bench of the World” is an open-air art exhibition, a new form of the exhibition concept that goes beyond the walls of the museum, combining various types and genres of art — accessible to the general public. Project partners: State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Kinotavr Film Festival. The longest World Bench was presented at the Olympic Park during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.

In 2008, thanks to the Peace Shop project, Maria Atlas and Andrei Popov managed to raise funds for the installation of a new playground in the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, Olga Lebedeva and A. Lebedeva Foundation sponsored the new playground. ^[31]

Participant in the Olympic torch relay in the XXII Winter Olympic Games in 2014 in Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo). ^[32]

Creative Producer, Ceremonies Staging agency / CSA ^[33]

Creative Producer of the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Sochi 2014 ^{[34] [35]}

Since 2016, Maria, together with Denis Zabiyaka, co-founder, creative producer of Zabiyaka records ^[36]

In 2018, Atlas was a creative producer of the Nikolin Day art festival ^[37]

She was awarded diplomas and letters of appreciation signed by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation V.R. Medinsky, the president of the Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee, D.N. Chernyshenko, as well as other representatives of state organizations. ^[38]

In the encyclopedia “The Best People of Russia”, “Gifted Children are the Future of Russia”, which is published with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the organizers of the project “Class of the World” Maria Atlas and Andrei Popov - “Game 3000” were announced 2007 Laureates.