Background
Vadim Alekseevich Kozin was born on March 21, 1903 in Saint Petersburg. He was a grandson of a gypsy singer V.V. Panina.
Vadim Alekseevich Kozin was born on March 21, 1903 in Saint Petersburg. He was a grandson of a gypsy singer V.V. Panina.
Vadim Alekseevich worked as a taper in the cinema. Since 1924, he sang at various variety venues in Leningrad and Moscow. In the fall of 1939 and 1940 he performed in Voronezh (closed theatre in Pervomaisky Garden).
During the Great Patriotic War, he participated in the front-line concert teams. Unreasonably repressed (1944), sentenced to 8 years of forced labor camps (Nakhodka, Magadan). Released in 1950. Artistic director, singer of the Dzerzhinsky Magadan Song and Dance Ensemble (1950-1955), Artist of the Magadan Regional Music and Drama Theater (1955-1978). Toured in the city of Voronezh (1958).