On March 10, the legendary Soviet and Russian composer Alexander Sergeevich Zatsepin celebrated his 100th birthday with a festive creative evening, “The Century of Zatsepin,” featuring superstars of the Russian stage and bright heroes of the world of cinema. The hosts were Daria Zlatopolskaya and Andrey Malakhov, and Zatsepin’s compositions from the films “Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures”, “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, “The Diamond Arm”, “Sannikov Land” and “The Mystery of the Third Planet” were performed from the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater by Natalya Varley, Yevgeny Mironov, Sergey Shakurov, Konstantin Khabensky, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Dima Bilan, Nikolay Baskov, Anton Belyaev, Yulia Peresild, Yevgeny Tkachuk, Alexey Yagudin, Liza Bazykina, Maria Mironova, Irina Pegova, Ildar Abdrazakov, Khibla Gerzmava, Katya IOWA and others.
The special guest of the evening was the People’s Artist of the USSR and composer Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova, whose appearance on the big stage is an extremely rare, but always expected phenomenon. The concert took place at With the support of the Ministry of Culture, and at the very beginning, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, took the stage and read a personal greeting from Vladimir Putin to Zatsepin. Dear Alexander Sergeyevich, I sincerely congratulate you on your centenary! I am sincerely glad that you are celebrating such an impressive anniversary with a creative upsurge, in a wonderful mood, surrounded by family, friends, and loyal fans. And you continue to generously share your talent and new wonderful works with music lovers. It is with great pleasure that I join in the warm words addressed to you today. And from the bottom of my heart I wish you good health, inexhaustible inspiration and all the best, the president wished through his representative.
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