Andrei Petrov

Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet films such as Walking the Streets of Moscow, Beware of the Car, and Office Romance.

Petrov also scored over eighty films, including the Soviet-American co-production The Blue Bird (1976).

From 1964 until his death Petrov was the head of the St. Petersburg Union of Composers, to which he was introduced by Dmitri Shostakovich.

He won numerous prizes and awards; on May 22, 1998, he was made an honorary citizen of Saint Petersburg.

[1] Petrov's wife, Natalya Yefimovna, was a well-known musicologist; his only daughter, Olga, co-wrote a number of his later works.