Victor Lebedev

Victor Mikhailovich Lebedev (5 January 1935 – 11 March 2021) was a Russian composer (Heavenly Swallows, Be My Husband, Gardes-Marines, Ahead!).

He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 2005.

[1][2] In 1968, he composed an opera of Aleksandr Volkov's The Wizard of the Emerald City, a Russian retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, on a libretto by William Roshchin and Vladimir Uflyand.

Member of the Guild of Composers of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

Second marriage with ballerina and actress Natalya Sedykh.