Olga Arefieva was the student of the singer who was best known for his rendition of what song?
Olga Arefieva Olga Arefieva (Arefeva) (born 21 September 1967 in Verkhnyaya Salda) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician. She graduated from Gnessin State Musical College (her teacher was Lev Leshchenko), founded band "Kovcheg" ("The Ark"), composed more than 400 songs, issued 15 music albums, and won the literary prize of the magazine "Znamya" for her poems.
National anthem of Russia The State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Russian: Госуда́рственный гимн Росси́йской Федера́ции , "Gosudárstvennyj gimn Rossíjskoj Federácii"; ] ) is the name of the official national anthem of Russia. Its musical composition and some of its lyrics were adopted from the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan. The Soviet anthem was used from 1944, replacing "The Internationale" with a more Sovietcentric and Russiacentric song. The anthem had no lyrics after 1956, due to the original lyrics having references to former leader Joseph Stalin. New lyrics were introduced in 1977 by Mikhalkov with lyrics placing less emphasis on World War II and more on the victory of communism.