Real name: Евгений Фёдорович Светланов (Anglicised: Evgeny Fedorovich Svetlanov)

Effective period / Period of releases: 1957 - 2018

Soviet / Russian conductor, composer and pianist. People's Artist of USSR (1968). Hero of Socialist Labor (1986). Lenin Prize (1972) and the USSR State Prize (1983).
Born: 6 September 1928, Moscow, USSR
Died: 3 May 2002, Moscow, Russia
Transliteration in Cyrillic - Евгений Светланов
Principal conductor & artistic director of:
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (1963-65 principal conductor)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra (1965-2000 principal conductor & artistic director)
Residentie Orkest (1992-2000 principal conductor)
First wife Larisa Avdeeva = Лариса Авдеева (1925-2013), opera singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Son Andrey (born 1956).
Second wife Nina Svetlanova (Nikolaeva) (died September 18, 2019) - pianist, teacher, journalist.