About Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song", or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition.
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Awards & Honors
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Golden Wreath
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
USSR State Prize
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Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Zhukov Medal
Soviet Guards Badge
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
