Education
Moscow Conservatory.
Moscow Conservatory.
His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films. He composed the scores for more than a hundred cinema and television films, including Sledstvie vedut znatoki (1985), We Are from Jazz (1983), Neznayka s nashego dvora (1983) and the In port animated film. His awards included an Honoured Cultural Worker of Russia Federation, Laureate Awards of the All-Union and International composer contests.
Minkov was born in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He attended the Merzlyakovki Conservatory School where he studied composition under Nikolay Sidelnikov.
He then studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory in 1964. He was awarded the Golden Pushkin Medal (1999) for "his contribution to the development, preservation and multiplication of the national cultural traditions, help and support of the creative intelligentsia, and development and forming of newer styles and directions in culture".
A song by Minkov based on the lyrics Invisible struggle (translit Nezrimiy Boi - If somebody, somewhere among us, sometimes) by Anatoly Gorokhov is featured in almost all the series. lieutenant became an unofficial hymn of the Soviet Militia.
In 2001, he was awarded the Ministry of the Interior Russian Interior Ministry award for the music theme to the Sledstvie vedut znatoki.
In 2003, Minkov became an Honoured Artist of Russia.
Union of Soviet Composers. Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.