1. Yuri Shevchuk is best known for his distinctive gravelly voice.
15 Facts About Yuri Shevchuk
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Yuri Shevchuk is famous for opposing pop music culture for many years.
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Yuri Shevchuk is often accredited with being the greatest songwriter in present-day Russia.
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Yuri Shevchuk's mother is an ethnic Tatar while his father is an ethnic Ukrainian from Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
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In January 1995, during the First Chechen War, Yuri Shevchuk went on a peace mission to Chechnya, where he gave 50 concerts for Russian troops.
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In 1999, Yuri Shevchuk visited Yugoslavia, giving concerts in support of the country's integrity and sharply criticizing the US for its bombings of the sovereign state.
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Yuri Shevchuk compiled photographic reports for UNESCO about destroyed Orthodox churches in the Serbian region of Kosovo.
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On 3 March 2008, Yuri Shevchuk participated in a Dissenters' March in Saint Petersburg against the presidential elections to which no serious opposition was admitted.
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Yuri Shevchuk published statistics - since 2003, about 100 monuments have been demolished in St Petersburg.
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In May 2010, Yuri Shevchuk received considerable media attention following a pointed dialogue with Vladimir Putin on state television, in which the singer openly confronted the then-Prime Minister with questions on controversial topics of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press.
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Yuri Shevchuk stated that some of his requests were treated and processed by Kremlin administration.
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On 25 August 2010, Yuri Shevchuk performed the Bob Dylan song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" together with U2 at their first ever concert in Russia, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
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On 4 January 2011, Yuri Shevchuk was featured on the US NPR Morning Edition radio program.
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On 18 June 2014, during a concert at the Green Theatre in Moscow, Yuri Shevchuk declared that all revenue from the concert would be donated to the Dr Lisa fund to aid injured citizens of Donbas.
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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Yuri Shevchuk has recorded two anti-war songs: "Motherland, Come Back Home" and "The Burial of War".