Evgeny Kliachkin

Evgeny Kliachkin was a Soviet and Russian bard, singer and composer who emigrated to Israel in 1990.

1934 to 1994Russian bard songsMore than 300 original songsPerforming with 7-string guitar

Born: 23 March 1934, Saint Petersburg
Died: 30 July 1994, Israel
Occupation: composer, songwriter, poet, singer-songwriter
Education: Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Annenschule

Evgeny Kliachkin was born in 1934 in Saint Petersburg

Evgeny Kliachkin was born on March 23, 1934, in Leningrad, in the Soviet Union.

He graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Building Institute in 1957. He then worked as an engineer for several building organizations in Leningrad.

He started writing songs in 1961. His early songs used lyrics by other poets, but he soon wrote his own words too and played a Russian 7-string guitar. He wrote more than 300 songs, 70 of them to lyrics by other poets.

He won prizes at song contests in Leningrad in 1965 and 1967, in Brest in 1965, and in Moscow in 1969.

In 1990 he emigrated to Israel with his family and kept performing in Israel and the United States. He toured Russia in 1994 and died in Israel on July 30, 1994.