Stas Namin children and wives. Stas Namin - biography, information, personal life

In Moscow.

His grandfather, Anastas Mikoyan, was a well-known political and statesman in the USSR. Brother grandfather Artem Mikoyan is a famous aircraft designer, the creator of the MiG aircraft. Father - lieutenant general, honored military pilot. Mother, Nami Mikoyan, graduated from the conservatory and graduate school in piano and music theory, historian-musicologist.

At the age of ten, Stas, family tradition, was .

After graduating from college, he entered the Institute foreign languages named after Maurice Thorez, then transferred to Faculty of Philology Moscow state university from which he graduated in 1978. In 1983 he graduated from the Higher Professional Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at the State Film Institute of the USSR.

In the 1960s, Stas Mikoyan became interested in rock music. In 1964, he created the rock group "Sorcerers", in 1967 - the group "Politburo". In 1969, under the influence of the legendary hippie-rock festival "Woodstock", the musician created a new group "Flowers", where he became the author of most of the songs.

For performances on stage, Mikoyan took the pseudonym Stas Namin (after his mother's name).

Namin is married with a third marriage to Galina Mikoyan. First wife Anna Isaeva is commercial director its center SNC. The second wife of Namin was the singer Lyudmila Senchina. From his first marriage he has a daughter, Maria, from the third, sons Artem and Roman.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Stas Naminov contributed huge contribution in the development of pop culture in Russia, but since the beginning of the 2000s, he has actually gone into the shadows. He created the Flowers group, one of the first production centers, the first music Festival- all this is the merit of the master.

The childhood of Stas Namin

The future creator of the group "Flowers" Stas Namin (real name Anastas Mikoyan) was born in Russia, in the city of Moscow. His father is Alexei Mikoyan, military pilot, participant in the Great patriotic war. Therefore, the boy's childhood passed on the territory of military garrisons in Belarus, Russia (near Murmansk) and East Germany.

Mother - Nami Mikoyan (Arutyunova), musician, art critic and writer. She instilled in her son a love of music and art. Famous composers and musicians often visited the house.

In 1957, Stas went to the 74th secondary school in Moscow, but already in 1961 he moved to the Moscow Suvorov School at the request of his father.

First participation in musical groups

At school, he first heard the works The Beatles and Rolling Stones, which affected the passion for rock music. In 1964 he became a member of the first in his life musical group"Wizards", created at the Suvorov School. In 1967, together with childhood friends and his brother (Alexander), Stas created a new group - the Politburo.

After starting his studies at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​in 1969, he became the leader of the Bliki musical group, then known among students.

Stas Namin and group "Flowers" group

Under the influence of the hippie movement "Children of Flowers" in 1969, Stas Namin created the "Flowers" group. They even managed to release a record at the then well-known Melodiya company. But due to their dissimilarity musical works with the style of the Soviet stage, the group "Flowers" fell under a total ban for Soviet central funds mass media, and then only infrequent compromise records were released, which for the first time introduced rock musical elements into Soviet culture. In 1975, there was a conflict between the "Flowers" and the Philharmonic, which tried to take away the name from the musicians in order to use it commercially.

Since 1974, the group "Flowers" began tour activity. Since 1977, due to a ban from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR (even the name itself was banned as “propaganda of Western ideology and hippie ideas”), it was renamed by the participants into the “Stas Namin Group”. While still under a ban on the territory of the USSR, they were able to release several records and restore their former popularity with a new name.

Stas Namin and Flowers Group - Light and Joy

Against the background of the Olympic thaw in 1980, the group began to periodically flicker on radio and television channels. At the same time, the author's album "Hymn to the Sun" was released. But after the aggravation of the conflict with the authorities, they are not able to be released even on the Melodiya that hosted them.

Resumed vigorous activity"Flowers" only in 1986, when the famous perestroika began. It was then that they were able to perform for the first time in foreign countries and until 1990 to make a world tour, which previously was almost a fantasy. The group became the first domestic rock band to tour the United States, and then, breaking free, toured the whole world in a few years: Eastern and Western Europe, South and North America, Africa, Japan, Australia, etc.

Stas Namin talks about corruption. Interview.

But in 1990, the group split. Their activity has completely stopped.

Stas Namin in the cinema

In 1982, Stas Namin decides to change the field of activity due to the inability to continue his professional musical career, and enters the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at the State Film Institute of the USSR. The following year, he became the author of the first video clip in the country for his song "Old New Year". It was banned from showing due to obvious political overtones. It was first shown on the air only in 1986 in the USA on the MTV channel.

The first experience of filming a movie for Stas Namin was "Neskuchny Sad" in 1991. There he acted not only as a producer, but also as a co-author.

Since 1992, he has been releasing a series of documentaries called International Geographic. As part of it, viewers were shown cities and countries such as Jerusalem (1992), Thailand (1993), New York (1995), New Mexico (1996), Easter Islands, Tahiti and Bora Bora (1997). ), Africa and South America (2002-2007) and Amazonia (2007).

Also, starting in 1989, several concert films were released, where Stas Namin appeared as a producer and director. Among them are the peace festivals in Luzhniki in 1989, "Rock from the Kremlin" in 1992, 3 parts of the "United World" festival in 1990, 1995 and 1997.

Stas Namin Center

In 1987, Stas Namin created the non-governmental organization Stas Namin Center at the Green Theater in Gorky Park. He gathered young and talented musicians, new musical groups(“Gorky Park”, “Moral Code”, “Kalinov Bridge”, “Spleen”), poets, artists and designers. In fact, it was the first production center in Russia. It was in this center that Stas Namin created the Gorky Park group, inventing an image, repertoire and acting as a producer. The group performed at the grandiose rock festival in Luzhniki in 1989 along with such musicians as Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Cinderella.

At first, the activity of the center was completely non-commercial, because the very concept of show business did not exist then. The Stas Namin Center includes a recording studio, a production center, concert agency, design studio, modeling agency, rock cafe, gallery contemporary art, radio station, TV company and glossy magazine.

In 1987, Namin created the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor— Konstantin Krimets. In 1997-99, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra recorded more than eighty CDs with music for films, animated films and computer games, which were released in Japan, USA, China, Austria and England.

And in the 90s of the last century, the center held the first independent tour of a foreign star, Iron Maden, at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, although until that time the State Concert was engaged in any concert activity in Russia. In 1991, having become interested in aeronautics, Namin created his first Balloon and organized the first festival in Russia balloons on the Red Square.

In the second half of the nineties, Stas Namin returned to musical creativity, starting work on several solo albums in different genres- ethno, rock, jazz. The most famous album of guitar improvisations in the style of art rock "Kama Sutra", dedicated to his deceased friend, famous musician Frank Zappa, was released in 2000.

Also in the nineties, Namin organized several major festivals: "Rock from the Kremlin" (1992), a series of festivals "United World" (1990, 1995, 1997), participated in the organization of the XX Moscow International Film Festival (1997).

Stas Namin Theater

In 1999, the Stas Namin Theater was created - the Moscow Theater of Music and Drama. The well-known rock musical "Hair", first staged in Russia as a genre, served as the beginning. This musical is included in the permanent repertoire of the theatre. Chamber musical performances, built on directing, acting and live music, are very popular. The most famous production of the theater is probably E. Webber's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Musical "Hair" at the Stas Namin Theater

In the 2009-2010 season, on the tenth anniversary of the theater, Namin presented a series of premiere performances - the musicals " The Bremen Town Musicians”, “Three Musketeers”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Beatlemania” and musical performances for kids " The Snow Queen" and " The little Prince”, musical by Gennady Gladkov“ Penelope, or 2 + 2 ”.

The revival of the group "Flowers" by Stas Namin

In 1999, Stas Namin gathered his group "Flowers" for big concert for the thirtieth anniversary, where everyone who has ever been in the line-up performed. But this event was not the beginning triumphant return groups on stage. Musicians perform at the Moscow Theater of Music and Drama, created by Stas. In particular, they took an active part in the musicals "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Hair".

Stas Namin and Flowers Group - Summer Evening

The team formed its permanent composition only in 2000. It included Oleg Predtechensky (guitar and vocals), Valery Diorditsa (keyboards and vocals), Alexander Greditsin (bass guitar and vocals), Yuri Vilkin (guitar only) and Alan Aspamazov (saxophone, keys and vocals). After that, the return of the "Flowers" group to an active tour and creative activity.

2009 was marked by the release of the double album "Back to the USSR", which included hits from 1969-1983. The album was released for the band's 40th anniversary. And a year later, for the first time in 20 years, the group began concert activity- first performing in Moscow, then starting regular tours.

2011 was marked by the new album Open Your Window, which included 15 previously unreleased songs from the 1980s and 2 new songs Open Your Window and Hymn to the Heroes of Our Time.

In 2013, the Flowers team released two new live albums- "House of Reason" and "The Power of Flowers". And for the forty-fifth anniversary of the group in 2014, "Flowers" planned big tour in forty-five cities of Russia and abroad.

Stas Namin today

In parallel with work on creative projects, since 2008 Namin has been teaching and is a professor and artistic director course of the Faculty of Cultural Studies and musical art Moscow State humanitarian university them. Sholokhov, and since 2010 - professor and artistic director of the musical course of the faculty musical theater Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS).

Personal life of Stas Namin

Stas Namin had three official marriages. The first wife Anna is currently the director of his production center and is in charge of all financial matters. From her he has a daughter, Masha (1977). It was Maria who gave him her granddaughter Asya.

The second wife of the singer - famous singer and beauty Lyudmila Senchina. This marriage lasted seven years.

Stas's current wife, Galina, has been with him for 25 years. Together with her, Namin also accepted her son Roma (b. 1983) from his first marriage. common child- Artem - appeared much later - in 1993.

Today, in addition to performances, Stas Namin is engaged in producing and organizing various festivals, both film and music, including various international ones. In addition, he manages to run his own modeling agency, art clubs and restaurants. He also took part in charitable activities more than once.

Mother, Nami Artemyevna Mikoyan, graduated from the conservatory, music historian.
Grandfather, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, was a famous politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1935-66), in the 1960s - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; grandfather's brother, Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan, creator and chief designer of MIG military aircraft.
Mother from childhood introduced her son to music.
The first music teacher of Stas was the composer Arno Babajanyan.
In 1961 he became a cadet at the Suvorov Military School. There, when he first heard the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, he became interested in this music and began to study it seriously (in the late 80s he participated in the recording of a record with Keith Richard - The Rolling Stones). He taught himself to play the guitar and already in 1964 he created his first rock band, the Charodei.
In the late 60s he was one of the founders of rock music in the country and one of the first Moscow hippies.
After graduating from the Suvorov Military School in 1969, he entered the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Translation (English, Italian), where he became the leader of the student rock group Bliki. After studying for two years, he transferred to the Romano-Germanic department of the Faculty of Philology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 1970 he created his new group "Flowers", which performs in clubs and institutions in Moscow and becomes very popular among Moscow youth. It was a period of persecution of rock music. In 1972, he released a small flexible record at the Melodiya company, which unexpectedly sold 7 million copies. In 1974, another disc was released, which brought "FLOWERS" all-Union popularity. In 1974 the group begins professional activity. In 1975, by decree of the Ministry of Culture, the group was disbanded and the name "as propaganda of Western ideology and hippie ideas" was banned. In its history, the group "Flowers" has never been on television, radio, and even in the press it was forbidden to mention it.
After a three-year break, which Stas devoted to studying at the university, he creates an ensemble - "The Stas Namin Group", where he acts not only as a performing musician, manager and producer of the group, but also as a composer. He wrote more than ten hits, including Summer Evening, Jurmala, We wish you happiness, Nostalgia for the present and many other songs. Total circulation vinyl records group amounted to more than 40 million.
In 1981, he organized the largest pop and rock festival in the country in Yerevan on the cycle track (70 thousand spectators), after which he was officially expelled from Armenia and banned from performing in big cities.
In 1983 he graduated from the two-year higher screenwriting and directing courses at the State Film Institute of the USSR. Removes term papers, including the plot "Faust and Mephistopheles" from "Little Tragedies" by A. S. Pushkin and theatrical miniature in jazz pantomime.
"Stas Namin's group" was a kind creative laboratory, in which such musicians as K. Nikolsky, I. Sarukhanov, A. Malinin, S. Voronov and many others grew up. A. Kozlov, V. Belousov, A. Huseynov, A. Pishchikov, S. Dyuzhikov, Yu. Fokin, V. Vasilkov played in the group.
In the 80s, Stas Namin wrote music for two feature films: "Fantasy on the theme of love" (A. Manasarova) and "Hourglass" (S. Voronsky).
In 1986, the Stas Namin Group became the first Soviet rock band to do a 45-day tour of the US and Canada, followed by a round-the-world tour. They were the first Russian musicians in Alaska who organized joint concerts with Eddie Money. In Japan, they performed together with Peter Gabriel, Little Stephen, Howard Jones, Lou Reed and other stars, in Australia with Mick Jaeger's band and so on.
The music center Stas Namin "SNC" was opened in January 1987 and brought together all the then banned musicians. It was actually the first experience of a private enterprise in the country.
In 1983 the country's first video clip was filmed; in 1985, the first musical space teleconference with the United States “We wish you happiness” was organized, and in 1989 the international rock festival in Luzhniki was organized with the participation of the BON JOVI, MOTLY CREW, OZZY OSBORNE, SCORPIONS, SKID ROW "and other superstars (140 thousand spectators), in 1990 - the first international pop festival in Gorky Park" One World "with the participation of Boy George," KAOMA "and many other stars from different countries peace.
In the same year, the Stas Namin Scholarship was established in Nashville (USA), enabling Russian students to take a course of study at Vanderbilt University.
In 1991, the Music Center expands its activities and turns into a diversified show business corporation: a recording studio; record label SNC Records; production and impresarial firm "Stanbet"; the music and information radio station SNC, which went on the air on January 4, 1991; TV company "S-N-C" (created programs: "Yellow Submarine", "Classics of Hollywood", "All Stars", etc.); picture gallery"Stanbet" (representing art different styles and national schools of the CIS); film production center; magazine "Stas" about art and culture modern Russia; concert agency "S-N-C", which organizes tours and concerts.
Opened in September 1999 State Theater Music and Drama under the direction of Stas Namin.

Stas Namin. Real name - Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan. Born November 8, 1951 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian musician, composer, producer, artist, photographer, director, teacher. Creator and leader of the group "Flowers".

Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, who became widely known as Stas Namin, was born on November 8, 1951 in Moscow.

Father - Alexei Anastasovich Mikoyan (1925-1986), military man, lieutenant general, honored military pilot of the USSR.

Mother - Nami Artemyevna Mikoyan (nee - Geurkova-Arutyunova; born in 1928), music historian, writer, author of the book "With Your Own Eyes".

Paternal grandfather - Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet statesman and party leader, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.

Maternal grandfather - Grigory Artemyevich Arutyunov (1900-1957), Soviet party and statesman, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.

Maternal grandmother - Ksenia Anatolyevna Priklonskaya (1909-1988), from the noble family of the Priklonskys, who are related to the noble families of the Venevitinovs and Pushkins.

He got his name in honor of the famous grandfather. After a couple of decades, Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan will cut his name to a short one - Stas. BUT famous surname will replace with stage name, formed on behalf of his beloved mother, - Nami Artemyevna.

As the musician recalled, his father introduced him to rock music: "My father was a military man, a pilot, he had a reel-to-reel tape recorder. He loved Okudzhava, Galich and, oddly enough, early rock and roll, such as Elvis Presley. That's all Samizdat, of course, came across, copied from each other.

At the age of ten, his parents sent Stas to the Suvorov Military School, where he studied for seven years. Participated seven times in the parade on Red Square. Later, he said that he did not regret his military childhood: "Because I acquired a certain internal discipline and responsibility. And unpretentiousness."

It was while studying at the Suvorov Military School that he became interested in rock music and in 1964 created his first rock band, the Charodei. In 1967, the Politburo group appeared, whose members were his brother Alik and neighbor Grigory Ordzhonikidze. "Two Mikoyan and Ordzhonikidze, and then Uborevich joined. We rehearsed in this entrance. In the basement. Right under the bust of Lenin and the velvet banner. And we sandals under this bust Jimi Hendrix and "Rolling Stones"...", - shared Stas Namin.

After graduating from the Suvorov Military School, he entered the Institute of Foreign Languages. While studying at the Faculty of Translation of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, he became the lead guitarist of the Bliki team. And in the same year, inspired by the work of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the hippie movement "Children of Flowers", created VIA "Flowers".

Then he transferred to the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University (taking with him his team "Flowers"), where he studied literature and philosophy. In 1972, the company "Melody" released the first disc of VIA "Flowers", the minion scattered in a matter of days with a gigantic circulation of 7 million copies.

In 1974 year VIA"Flowers" released hits "To be honest", "Lullaby", "You and I", " More life". The fashionable group was taken to the Moscow Philharmonic, but a year later they were kicked out - they did not fit into the official framework. And the Soviet Ministry of Culture went even further: it banned both the group and its very name as "propaganda of Western ideology and hippie ideas." Namin himself recalled: "At that time it was required to sing Komsomol songs Soviet composers. Only under this condition it was possible to include 1-2 songs from the compositions that we composed in the repertoire. It didn't suit us."

Stas Namin and the group "Flowers"

In 1978 he graduated from Moscow State University.

On the eve of the New Year, 1977, Stas created a group of his own name, recorded several new songs with her, which also became very popular. In 1980, the solo album "Hymn to the Sun" was released. Then for five whole years, right up to the Moscow Festival of Youth and Students, the group again fell into disgrace, they blocked all opportunities to be heard.

Namin's famous song, written in 1982, "We wish you happiness" appears in mass access only at the end of 1984 due to censorship. In 1986, with the beginning of perestroika, the group began new life. VIA "Flowers" travel to the West for the first time and in four years make a world tour, almost without working in the USSR. In the 1990s, the group stops its activities for 10 years.

In 1983, he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at the USSR Goskino.

In 1987 was created Stas Namin Center(SNC) - at the Green Theater of Gorky Park. The center became one of the first non-governmental organizations in the country. A production center and an independent recording studio were organized, where they took their first steps and developed new musical groups, such as Brigada S, Moral Code, Kalinov Most, Nochnoi Prospekt, Nicolaus Copernicus, Megapolis, "Gorky Park", "Spleen" and many others, as well as young artists, poets, designers.

After his first trips with concerts to the West, Namin decided to start producing on a global scale, for which he created a musical project, having come up with a name for it by "place of birth" - "Gorky Park". Namin picked up musicians, and as a result of two years of work in his studio, SNC created the image and demos of a new group, signed a contract with Polygram Records, inviting President Dick Asher to Moscow for this, attracted the Bon Jovi group to the project, as a result of which the Park Gorky" became popular in the West. The main "springboard" in the career of "Gorky Park" was their participation in the anti-drug rock festival organized by Namin in 1989 in Luzhniki. The festival was broadcast in 59 countries around the world.

In the late 1980s, the Stas Namin Center became a cult place in Moscow, where one could meet, among others, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Gabriel, U-2, Annie Lennox, Pink Floyd, Robert De Niro, Quincy Jones and many others. Frank Zappa, frequent guest Namina made a film about the Center.

In the early 1990s, Namin divided his projects into two holdings. Those related to art were included in the SNC holding, and projects related to business and commercial activities were included in the Stanbet holding (in 1989 he created the Stanbet company, which became a pioneer in different areas business in Russia).

Inspired by ballooning in 1992, Namin created his first hot air balloon and organized Russia's first balloon festival on Red Square in Moscow. In 1994, on his order, the first Russian balloon of an unusual shape was designed - the "Yellow Submarine", which was recognized as one of the most popular balloons in the world on the largest festival balloons in New Mexico (USA) and entered the encyclopedia of the best balloons in the world.

In 1997, Stas Namin in a team with, and committed trip around the world through Easter Island. The team covered 40,000 km, visiting Europe, Africa, South America, New Zealand and Japan. During the trip, 3 films were shot: Yuri Senkevich and Andrey Makarevich created films for their TV shows, and Stas Namin for his cycle of International Geographic documentaries.

As a result of numerous trips to Africa, South America, Europe and other parts of the world, he created documentaries that were included in his International Geographic author cycle, where he acted as a director, cameraman and producer. He also created a series of documentary travel films: "Amazing Cuba", "Northern India", "Ancient Temples of Armenia", various video clips, documentary films and an interview film with Ernst Neizvestny. He acted as a producer of the film Free to Rock (USA) - its presentation took place in Washington: at Georgetown University and the Capitol.

Realized as a photographer(He began to take a great interest in a photo in the childhood). In the 1990s, Stas Namin took pictures during round-the-world expeditions, and also began working in a photo studio. In the 2000s, he began to work fine arts, painting and graphics, and this influenced his worldview in photography. In 2013, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the State Russian Museum presented Namin's author's photo album "Magic of Venus". In 2014, Namin's works participated in an exhibition at the Gallery of Classical Photography, together with the best photographers countries.

In 2006 at the Theater Museum. Bakhrushin were first presented his works - graphics, painting, mixed media where he experimented with modern computer and other technologies. His artworks are exhibited in various collections, galleries and museums in Russia and abroad.

In 1999, he again gathered the group "Flowers". The team celebrated its 30th anniversary with an anniversary concert. In the future, musicians take part in theatrical performances Namin. In 2010, the anniversary album “Flowers of 40 Years” was released and the group again began to be active creative life: for the first time in more than 20 years, the musicians went on big stage and resumed regular touring activities.

In 2009-2010, the band recorded at London's Abbey Road studios the double albums Back to the USSR, which included all of their songs from the 1970s period, and Open Your Window, which included their banned songs from the 1980s.

In 2011, he acted as a symphonic composer - he came out symphonic suite"Autumn in St. Petersburg". The first album of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra created by Namin included four parts from Namin's suite "Autumn in St. Petersburg" and three symphonic interpretations of songs by Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The album was recorded in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. In 2016, a piano version of Namin's suite was created and recorded in Germany.

In 1999 he created Stas Namin Theater. This happened after, at the invitation of the producer of the cult Broadway hippie-rock musical Hair, Michael Butler, Namin visited the Hollywood production of the musical, which made a great impression on him and served as an incentive to create his own theater. The theater was named the Stas Namin Moscow Theater of Music and Drama. Its distinguishing feature is that both traditional musicals and rock operas become deep in it. dramatic works. The theater focuses not on show effects, but on the drama of actors and productions, thus connecting the tradition of Russian drama theater with the international tradition of the musical.

The basis of the repertoire of the Stas Namin Theater is musical performances, but other genres are also practiced. Constantly in the repertoire - both classics (the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" by E. L. Weber, the musical "Hair" by G. McDermot, "The Bremen Town Musicians" by G. Gladkov, "The Three Musketeers" by M. Dunayevsky), and original musical productions - "Alice in Wonderland" by V. Vysotsky, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by R. Bowser, musical graffiti "Beatlemania", the musical for children "The Snow Queen" by S. Namin, etc.

In 2014, on its fifteenth anniversary, the theater in its development left the traditional form of the musical, moving on to complex musical and dramatic performances. Mozart’s opera based on the play “The Marriage of Figaro” by Beaumarchais, the opera-ballet “The Resident of the Peaks” based on the verses by Velimir Khlebnikov and the music by A. Khvostenko and the “Auktsion” group, the play “My Heart is in the Mountains” based on U. Saroyan were staged. The Stas Namin Theater in collaboration with the State Russian Museum carried out the reconstruction of the first ever avant-garde futuristic opera Victory over the Sun.

In June 2015, the theater was invited to the Art Basel international contemporary art fair, and in October 2015, at the invitation of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Stas Namin Theater presented the opera Victory over the Sun at the annual FIAC Paris fair.

Social activities of Stas Namin

In 2000-2003 - Member of the Cultural Council under the President Russian Federation.

In 2007, he was a member of the business council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Since 2007 - Professor of the Moscow State University for the Humanities named after M. A. Sholokhov.

In 2008, the full-time faculty of culture and musical art was opened - a joint project Moscow State University for the Humanities and the Stas Namin Center.

In 2010, he became a professor and artistic director of the musical theater course at the Faculty of Musical Theater at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS).

In 2011 he created a children's theater studio at the Theater of Music and Drama. Education takes place in a playful way and allows children to master initial foundations acting profession. Among the disciplines: acting skills, speech technique, stage movement, vocals, dance. Classes are conducted by leading theater artists and professional teachers of GITIS.

In 2012, he initiated the Light and Joy humanitarian project, which is presented at UNESCO headquarters (Paris) and is part of the humanitarian education program of the UNESCO Children's Art Centers in Russia.

Since 2014 - an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of Russia.

The growth of Stas Namin: 163 centimeters.

Personal life of Stas Namin:

Was married three times.

First wife- Anna Isaeva. They got married in the mid 1970s.

In 1977, the couple had a daughter, Maria.

In 1979, the marriage broke up. After the divorce, Stas and Anna kept friendly relations. Later, the ex-wife became a commercial director at the Stas Namin Center.

From eldest daughter Maria, Stas Namin has a granddaughter, Asya.

Second wife- (1950-2018), Soviet and Russian singer and actress People's Artist Russia. We met in 1980. The novel began with a joint work: Stas Namin invited her to make two parts and perform in one concert with his group "Flowers". As the singer later recalled, Namin opened her eyes to completely different music - thanks to him, she fell in love with Pink Floyd, Blondie, Peter Gabriel, personally met many amazing people including John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.

The marriage lasted 7 years. Senchina later recalled: "Stas - wonderful person, very interesting. I could no longer talk to anyone like I did with him. We talked all night long. With him I learned other music, other literature. It was something extraordinary, really. "According to Senchina, the marriage collapsed due to the excessively temperamental nature of Namin:" Stas has a terrible character. It happened that I received from him on the face. Yes! He could raise his hand to me, the table could turn over. Such a temperamental person! I understood that I would not have a life, that I would die. And I decided to leave it all far, far away."

However, they maintained friendly relations. January 29, 2001 Lyudmila Senchina took part in anniversary concert group Stas Namin "Flowers", dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the creation of the team, which took place in concert hall"Russia" in Moscow.

Third wife- Galina Anatolyevna Mikoyan. We met in the mid 1980s. At that time, Galina had a son, Roman, from a previous relationship. They got married in the late 1980s.

In 1993, the couple had a son, Artem, who is seriously engaged in painting.

Stepson Roman graduated from a medical institute, but did not work in his specialty.

Filmography of Stas Namin:

1980 - Fantasy on the theme of love - episode
1988 - Sickle and guitar (From Russia with rock / Sirppi ja kitara) (documentary)
2008 - Cinderella of allied significance. Lyudmila Senchina (documentary)
2008 - Living history. Russian rock (documentary)
2009 - Vladimir Spivakov. Without tailcoat (documentary)

Stas Namin's works in cinema as a composer:

1980 - Fantasy on the theme of love
1984 - Hourglass
1980 - Melodies and rhythms of youth (short)
1986 - Meetings on Saturday evening (short) - the song "Nostalgia" to the verses of Andrei Voznesensky

Stas Namin's awards:

Russian Order of Friendship (November 17, 2011) - for great merits in development national culture and art, many years of fruitful activity;
Armenian Order of Friendship (December 17, 2016)

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Biography, life story of Stas Namin

Stas Namin (Mikoyan Anastas Alekseevich) - Soviet and Russian musician, artist, entrepreneur.

Childhood and youth

Anastas was born in Moscow on November 8, 1951 in the family of a military pilot Alexei Anastasovich and Nami Artemyevna (nee Arutyunova), an art critic, writer and musician. Then, many years later, Anastas would take her mother's name as the basis for her creative pseudonym.

When Stas was 10 years old, he entered the Suvorov Military School. After graduating from seven classes, the young man became a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages. From there, he soon transferred to the philological faculty of Moscow State University. In 1978, Stas successfully graduated from Moscow State University. And a little later, in 1983, he was trained at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at the USSR State Cinematography.

Music

Even while studying at Suvorovsky, Stas Namin became interested in rock music. In 1964, young man already had its own rock band. And in 1969, being under the incredibly strong impression of the legendary Woodstock festival and the growing hippie movement, he created the Flowers group. The team "Flowers" has become incredibly popular. For many years, due to "color mania", the group was practically banned - it was not allowed in the media and on the big stage. Only towards the end of the 1980s, the musicians were able to loudly declare themselves and travel beyond the borders of the Soviet Union.

Stas Namin created not only within the framework of "Flowers", but also independently. His solo musical projects is a psychedelic rhythm blues (guitar improvisations "Kama Sutra"), ethnic melodies based on Indian traditions ( albums World Music Freedom and "Meditation"), traditional blues and rock and roll (album "Dinosaurs").

In 2011, Stas Namin, together with Moskovsky symphony orchestra created the album "Autumn in St. Petersburg", which includes parts from the suite of Namin himself and three symphonic interpretations of compositions, and Jimi Hendrix.

CONTINUED BELOW

In 2014, Stas Namin began to work on his own symphony. The work took two years. The work was called Centuria S - Quar.

Entrepreneurial activity

Closer to the collapse of the USSR, when new freedoms and prospects from the developed capitalist world gradually began to appear in the country, Stas Namin was one of the first to actively create his empire. He had projects in the field of producing and organizing events. Over time, there were so many working projects of Namin that the businessman divided them into two large holdings. The first - SNC or "Stas Namin Center" - has become a place for art and creativity; the second - "Stanbet" - a place for commercial activities for the purpose of making a profit. The SNC includes: a recording studio, a production center, a concert organization company, a design studio, a modeling agency, a fashion theater, art clubs, restaurants, a gallery modern painting, radio station, TV company and glossy magazine. Stanbet got: a sports agency, a trading company, Publishing House, management and manufacturing in the USA, a real estate and architecture development company, a laboratory for lamp technologies and technologies in the field of ecology and energy.

Theater and cinema

In 1999, Stas Namin got his own theater. As part of this project, Stas took up staging bright and extraordinary performances. For example, one of his first productions was the American musical Hair and the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.

In the cinema, Stas starred a couple of times - in 1981 in the melodrama "Fantasy on the theme of love" and in 2017 in the documentary Free to Rock. In the latter, he also acted as a screenwriter and producer. In addition, Namin directed several travel documentaries (Northern India, Amazing Cuba, and so on).

Artistic creativity

In the mid-1990s, Stas Namin discovered another talent in himself, more precisely, two talents at once - drawing and photography. He started arranging personal exhibitions their works. As a photographer, he made a good name for himself. His talent was recognized both in Russia and abroad. In 2014, Stas Namin was accepted into Russian academy arts.

Public life and charity

The independent production company Stas Namin Center has been active in charitable activities since its inception. Thus, SNC provides gratuitous support to young musicians, artists and writers. Also, Stas Namin carried out the restoration of the destroyed Church of the Sign of the Virgin in the Moscow region, contributed to the opening of the first Orthodox parishes in Russia, transferred more than a million dollars to the drug addiction fund and made many more broad gestures.

Stas Namin is a member of the worldwide association "People of Art for Peace", a member of the board of the International Public Foundation "For the Survival and Development of Mankind", a member of the Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, a member of the Cultural Council under the President of the Russian Federation (2000-2003).

Personal life

In the mid-1970s, Stas Namin married a girl named Anna Isaeva. In 1977, the couple had a daughter, Maria. Two years later, Stas and Anna divorced. After parting, the ex-lovers were able to maintain a warm relationship. Later, Isaeva even took the position of commercial director at the Stas Namin Center.

The second wife of Stas was a singer and actress