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64 members of the Red Army Choir, considered by many the world’s most famous military choir, lost their lives in a plane crash on Sunday. The army’s official musical group and its conductor, Valery Khalilov, were on board the Tu-154 traveling to Syria to celebrate the New Year with Russian troops.

Often described as the Kremlin’s “singing weapon,” the Military Alexandrov Ensemble, also known as the Red Army Choir, was founded in 1928, when the Minister of Defence, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, asked Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov to create a military choir.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was born on 13 April 1883 into a peasant family in Plakhino, a village in Ryazan Governorate, southeast of Moscow.

Even in his early days he was an impressive singer and went on to study composition at Saint Petersburg and in Moscow, where he eventually russian red army choir biography of christopher4 HOTY