Elena Kamburova

Elena Kamburova is a Russian singer and actor. She was born 11/07/1940 in town Novokuznetsk is located 3,000 km east of Moscow. From the 1960s, Kamburova took part in concerts and radio recordings. She performed songs by Novella Matveyeva and Bulat Okudzhava. Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava once noted that her art is “a lucky combination of vocals, intellect, and talent.

From mid-1970s, compositions of Vladimir Dashkevich made up a significant part of her repertoire, based on the lyrics by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Blok , Marina Tsvetayeva, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam.

In 1992, Kamburova founded The Moscow Theater of Music and Poetry, where she acts as the director, a performer and an actress.

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