samuil plavnik was born into a jewish family, in the future famous poet, prose writer, translator, zmitronce childhood, he was drawn to literature; the boy was not afraid of the distance of several tens of kilometers that he walked on foot to the nearest library. in 1912, having arrived in vilnia, he became friends with famous writers, his aunt, lostovsky, yadvigin sha, and the lutskevich brothers. did translations. april 24 marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher arkady eskin. he was born in kharkov in a family of musicians. he started playing jazz at the age of 13 in restaurant. during his career, he changed many famous groups, including accompanying leonid utesov. in 1980 , vladimir mulyavin invited arkady borisovich to join pesniary, as an arranger and performer, he took part in the creation of legendary pesniary programs: a song about share for the poems of kupala, at the top of his voice to the poems of vladimir mayakovsky and others. later there was work in the state concert orchestra of mikhail finberg. 3.5 years und