Background
MINAYEV, Kuz’ma was born on November 14, 1895 in village Novaya Slobodka, now Kaluga Oblast.
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Kuz’ma Afanas’yevich MINAYEV
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Education
1920-1924 studied at Moscow Conservatory. 1927 graduate Bolshoy Theater Studio.
Career
1927-1937 performed at opera theaters in Khar’kov, Odessa and Baku. 1937-1950 soloist, Kiev Academy Theater of Opera and Ballet. Roles: Astap and Miron in Lysenko’s “Taras Bul’ba” and “Natalka-Poltavka”.
Sultan in Gulak-Artemovskiy’s Zaporozhets’ za Dunayem (A Dnieper Cossack Beyond the Danube). Protenko in Meytus’ Molodaya gvardiya (The Young Guard). Nagul’nov in Dzerzhinskiy’s Podnyataya tselyna (Virgin Soil Upturned).
Title roles in Borodin’s Knyaz’ Igor’ (Prince Igor) and Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, et cetera
Membership
Communist Party member from 1946.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics