Education
Sergey Nikitin graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University in 1968. In 1980-1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics in Pushchino and received a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1983.
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Sergey Nikitin graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University in 1968. In 1980-1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics in Pushchino and received a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1983.
Sergey Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children. After completing postgraduate studies at the department of Biophysics at Moscow State University, he worked as a researcher in Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow (1971-1980). Sergey Nikitin wrote music to his first song, En route (lyrics by Iosif Utkin), in 1962.
In 1963, he founded an all-male quartet in the Department of Physics at Moscow State University, together with Sergey Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait.
In 1987-1995, he was Musical Director at the Oleg Tabakov Studio-Theater in Moscow, and became a full-time singer and composer since 1995. Nikitin has two older sisters, and one adult son, Alexander, who sometimes performs in concerts with Sergey and Tatiana.