Rodion Mikhaylovich Azarkhin (Russian: Родио́н Миха́йлович Аза́рхин) also spelt Rodion Azarkin and Radion Azarkin, (March 22, 1931, Kharkiv, USSR – March 26, 2007, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian musician. He started playing the double bass in 1945 at a music school next to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Later he was a pupil of RSFSR Honoured Artist M.M. Kurbatov at the Leningrad Conservatory from which he graduated with honours in 1954. He continued his studies as a postgraduate student at the Moscow Conservatory under cellist Sviatoslav Knushevitsky.
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22 March 1931 Kharkiv, USSR
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Died |
26 March 2007 (aged 76)
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