Background
Mikhail Isaevich Tankhilevich was born in Taganrog.
Mikhail Isaevich Tankhilevich was born in Taganrog.
He graduated from the Rostov Civil Engineering College (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).
In 1947, he was arrested on the grounds of false accusations, and spent time in prison until 1953. After the war Tanich lived in Moscow and worked on the radio and in the press His first book of collected poems was published in 1959.
He then went on to write a total of fifteen books
In the beginning of the 1960s he wrote a song The Textile Town, written in collaboration with the Soviet composer Yan Frenkel, became a hit. lieutenant was sung by a number of popular singers including Raisa Nemetova and Maya Kristallinskaya.
He has also co-authored with many Soviet composers such as Yuri Saulsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, Vadim Gamaliya, Oscar Feltsman, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vladimir Shainsky. Other composers Tanich has worked with include Igor Nikolayev, Arkady Ukupnik and Vyacheslav Malezhik.
Along with Sergey Korzhukov who died in 1994, Mikhail Tanich cofounded the group Lesopoval.
Spouse – lyrics writer Lydia Kozlova Children – Inga Kozlova, Svetlana Kozlova Grandchildren – Lev Kazachenko and Veniamin Kazachenko.
