Real name: Александр Иванович Анисимов

(July 6, 1905—1987)
Soviet musician, chorus master. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1948)

1937—1949 Leader of Ансамбль Песни И Пляски Ленинградского Военного Округа (Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military District)
1949-1951 Head of musical institutions and vice-chairman of the Committee on the Arts Council of Ministers of the USSR
1951-1955 Director of the Bolshoi Theatre
1955-1965 director and artistic director of the Glinka's Leningrad Academic Capella