1. Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin was a Belarusian and Russian rock musician and the founder of the folk-rock band Pesniary.
12 Facts About Vladimir Mulyavin
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Vladimir Mulyavin was born in Sverdlovsk in the family of a worker at the Uralmash plant.
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Vladimir Mulyavin started playing the guitar at the age of 12.
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Vladimir Mulyavin was expelled from the school for misconduct and an overt interest in jazz, nevertheless he was reinstated after some time, and he left the school by own initiative.
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Vladimir Mulyavin founded a vocal quartet in the company and took a part in the Belarusian military district ensemble foundation.
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Vladimir Mulyavin later recorded several Belarusian national songs as Pahonia on the lyrics by Maksim Bahdanovich.
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Vladimir Mulyavin died on 26 January 2003 in Moscow, suffering results of a car accident of 8 months before.
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Vladimir Mulyavin had a brother Valery, who played with the Pesniary; he died in 1973 in Yalta.
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Vladimir Mulyavin married three times, first to Lidia Karmalskaya, with whom he had a daughter Maria was born on 1961 and and a son Vladimir Mulyavin Jr.
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Vladimir Mulyavin left Karmalskaya in 1975 and had little contact with his son.
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Vladimir Mulyavin was sentenced in 2005 for a brawl and distribution of narcotics, and died in jail in 2006.
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Vladimir Mulyavin divorced Slizskaya in 1981 and married actress Svetlana Penkina; they had a son Valery born in 1982.