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Tatyana Snezhina (Russian: Татьяна Снежина; 14 May 1972 – 21 August 1995) was a Russian poet and singer-songwriter. Her original family name is Pechenkina (Russian: Печёнкина). She wrote more than 200 songs which were performing by herself and – after her death – by many Russian popular artists.

Tatyana Snezhina
Birth name	Татьяна Валерьевна Печёнкина
Born	(1972-05-14)May 14, 1972 Voroshilovgrad
Died	(1995-08-21)August 21, 1995 Novosibirsk Oblast
Occupation(s)	poet, singer-songwriter
Years active	1993 – 1995

Early life

Tatyana was born in Voroshilovgrad on 14 May 1972. Her father was a military commissioned officer. Her mother was a technologist at the factory. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where Tatyana attended the school No.4 and started to study in a local music school. In 1981, the family moved to Moscow. In that period, she began to perform self-penned songs. In 1992, the family moved to Novosibirsk. Tatyana enrolled at the Novosibirsk medical institute.

Professional singer career

In 1993, Tatyana took the pseudonym Snezhina and started working on her first album "Вспомни со мной" (English: Remember with me) contained 21 songs written by Tatyana. In 1994, she first performed on a stage of the Moscow State Estrada Theatre. She was the subject of the report on the Radio Rossii.[1]

She met Sergey Bugayev, record producer and the head of a recording studio, and he became her producer. Soon, they began an affair. They were planning on getting married on 13 September 1995.

Death

Tatyana Snezhina and Sergey Bugayev died in the traffic accident at 106th kilometer of the R256 highway, located in Cherepanovsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, on 21 August 1995.

Initially, she was buried in Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery in Novosibirsk but subsequently reburied in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

After death

In 1997, Alla Pugacheva performed the Tatyana Snezhina song "Позови меня с собой" (English: Call me to come with you) at the Slavianski Bazaar Festival,[2] and it became a hit record. In 2015, the lyrics of this song took 23rd place in the top-100 of the most famous Russian poetry in the history.[3]

In late 1990s – early 2000s, the songs written by Tatyana Snezhina were performed by many famous artists, such as Joseph Kobzon, Kristina Orbakaitė, Lolita Milyavskaya, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Lada Dance, Lev Leshchenko, Alisa Mon, Tatiana Bulanova, etc.[1]

Legacy

• In 1998, one of peaks of Altai Mountains (44° 58' 30.313" N; 79° 19' 55.247" E) was named after Tatyana Snezhina.
• Since 2008, Novosibirsk has held an annual Television Young Song Performers Contest "Ordynka" dedicated to the memory of Tatyana Snezhina and Sergey Bugayev.[4][5]
• In 2010, the bronze monument to Tatyana Snezhina was opened in Luhansk.[6]
• In 2011, one of the streets in Novosibirsk was named after Tatyana Snezhina.[7]
• In 2013, the monument to Tatyana Snezhina was opened in Novosibirsk.[8]

References

External links

• Tatyana Snezhina memorial website

На других языках

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[ru] Снежина, Татьяна Валерьевна

Татья́на Вале́рьевна Сне́жина (настоящая фамилия — Печёнкина; 14 мая 1972 (1972-05-14), Ворошиловград, Украинская ССР, СССР — 21 августа 1995, 106-й километр Чуйского Тракта (между городом Черепаново и посёлком Майским)) — российская[1] поэтесса, композитор , автор лирических песен, певица . Автор более чем 200 песен и множества стихов. Трагически погибла в 1995 году в возрасте 23 лет, а в конце века стала знаменитой посмертно после исполнения Аллой Пугачёвой в 1997 г. её песни «Позови меня с собой» и ещё нескольких десятков песен, вошедших в репертуар ведущих звёзд российской эстрады[2].

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