Ashkenazy, Abram Abramovich 24.feb/8.mar.1895-20.feb.1983 Russia, Odessa - Leningrad
pianist, 1910-1915 studied piano with A Bogutskoy, G Biber-Halperin and composition with S Mironovich and Vitold Malishevsky at Odessa Music College and Conservatory, 1917-1925 instructor Kultotdela Workers and Peasants Red Army, 1926 he organized the Composers Association in Leningrad, 1929-1932 executive secretary of the Russian Society of Composers and Playwrights, 1938-1941 artistic director of the Office of Cinema in Leningrad