Vladimir Popov

Vladimir Alexandrovich Popov (08.02.1944 – 02.07.2025) was a 1958 graduate of the Gorky Boys’ Choir Chapel, worked at the Chapel as a choirmaster and was its director from 1972 to 1983. He was head of the concert choir of Children’s Art School No. 9 named after A. D. Ulybyshev, a laureate of the Nizhny Novgorod Prize, Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation and associate professor at the Conservatory.

The galaxy of pupils he trained now leads children’s choirs in general and additional education institutions of the city and directs choirs at cultural institutions of the region. Until the very end Vladimir Alexandrovich carried out expert and advisory work.\nVladimir Alexandrovich is remembered and valued by graduates of the Gorky House of Gifted Children and students of the Balakirev Nizhny Novgorod Music College. He left a notable mark as director of the Gorky Boys’ Choir Chapel, as choirmaster of the Opera and Ballet Theatre, and in the hearts of students of the Gorky Higher School of the Militia, the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical Institute and the Conservatory.\nIt is impossible to encompass the full scale of the work of the outstanding musician, choirmaster, teacher and scrupulously honest man Vladimir Alexandrovich Popov.

His memory will remain in our hearts forever.