A memorial plaque will be opened in Kazan to the singer, soloist of the song and dance ensemble of the Russian army named after A.V. Aleksandrov Vladislav Golikov

December 23 at 14.00 in Kazan will open a memorial plaque to the singer, tenor, soloist of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Aleksandrov Vladislav Golikov. A commemorative plaque will be installed on the facade of the building of the Kazan State Conservatory. N. G. Zhiganov at the address: Pushkin, 31.

Tatarstan Minister of Culture Irada Ayupova, relatives of Vladislav Golikov, representatives of the Kazan Executive Committee, as well as the leadership of the Alexandrov ensemble will take part in the memorial ceremony.

Recall that a native of Kazan died in the crash of an aircraft liner of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “Tu-154” in December 2016.

By the way, on board the Tu-154 was another native of Kazan - 22-year-old Ralina Gilmanova. She was a ballet dancer. The memorial plaque to Ralina Gilmanova was installed a year earlier on the building of the choreographic school, where the girl began her career.

Info: Golikov Vladislav Vladimirovich was born on November 23, 1973 in the city of Kazan.

He graduated from the Kazan Music College named after I.V. Aukhadeeva

(1989-1993) and the Kazan State Conservatory named after N.G. Zhiganov (1996-2001).

In 2004 G.P.  Vishnevskaya  invited him to  Moscow, to study at the Opera Center under her guidance.

Upon graduation in 2006, he worked at the Helikon-Opera Moscow Musical Theater. Then in 2006-2013. - at the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater named after N.I. Sats.

In 2013, he began working in the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Aleksandrov. The highly professional mastery of vocal and stage art allowed V.V. Golikov to successfully perform opera parts (Calaf's aria from the opera Turandot by J. Puccini), and songs by Soviet composers (I. I went from Berlin by I. Dunaevsky), and Russian folk songs (“Glorious Sea Sacred Baikal”), as well as songs of peoples of different countries. During his work in the ensemble, he took part in touring the band both in the regions of Russia and abroad (Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, China, Cuba, Poland, Romania, etc.).

For special merits, he was awarded a letter of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation (2014).

December 25, 2016 V.V. Golikov tragically died together with a group of artists of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Aleksandrov in the TU-154 plane crash in the Black Sea, performing a charity flight to Syria.