Background
Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk, the son of a language teacher.
Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk, the son of a language teacher.
Belarusian State Academy of
He studied at the Vitebsk School, the Minsk School of, and the Conservatory of Belarus where he was taught composition by Vasily Zolotarev, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov.
In 1948 he began teaching composition at the National Conservatory, Minsk, where he later became a deputy director Bogatyrev died on September 19, 2003 in Minsk.
He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1954, and was made a People"s Artist of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1968.
Union of Soviet Composers.