Vladimir Bunchikov

Vladimir Bunchikov (Russian: Владимир Бунчиков; 21 November 1902, Yekaterinoslav – 17 March 1995, Moscow) was a Soviet baritone and Honoured Artist of Russia (1944).

After graduating from the Dnepropetrovsk Music College, he studied in Leningrad.

From 1929 he was a soloist at the Opera in Dnepropetrovsk, and from 1931 at the Nemirovicha-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow.

With V. Kandelaki he sang jazz, and he sang with the popular orchestra directed by B. Knushevitsky, and with the Alexandrov Ensemble directed by Boris Alexandrov on All-Union Radio.

For 25 years he performed fine duets with the lyric tenor Vladimir Nechaev (1908–1969)[2] whom he had met during World War II.