Yuri Aizenshpis blue. Did Aizenshpis bring the “blue lobby” to show business? Remained friends from the zone
January 22nd, 2017
There was such a famous music producer who passed away not so long ago, but that's not the point. Even if you have not heard of him, then perhaps in the continuation of the conversation you will be interested in the details of working days in the colonies of the Soviet Union.
Famous music producer Yuri Aizenshpis Soviet time twice was convicted for foreign exchange transactions. In total, he served 17 years. But the talent of the manager Aizenshpis realized in the zone. In the first trip, he set up production at the construction site of KrAZ, in the second he was in charge of the sawmill. Aizenshpis recalled that smart person he lived well even in the zone, his income was measured in thousands of rubles.
Here are the details...
Yuri Aizenshpis became music producer already at the age of 19. Then he studied to be an economist, worked at the Central Statistical Bureau. He combined music and service with foreign exchange transactions. In 1970, at the age of 25, he sat down for the first time for 10 years for currency speculation. But he was released on parole for exemplary work in 1977. A year later, he was again convicted under the same article, he was released in 1988. In the book “From a farmer to a producer. Business people in the USSR, he tells how his talent helped him become a manager in the colonies.
For five months in the Krasnoyarsk zone, I have never touched a shovel or a pickaxe. They could not work at a construction site either “for authority” or for money. I took more second. The parents promptly sent the starting advance amount, and then the foreman's services were paid from the "earned". For example, when fulfilling the norm of the plan, the foreman closes orders for 160 rubles for you. If you conditionally “work hard with overfulfillment”, for example, by 200 rubles, then 80 goes to the zone for “stay”, and 120 to your personal account. After taxes, 100 remain. Of these, 50 are for you, and 50 are for the foreman. No more than 10% of all prisoners participated in such a conspiracy, because it was also required to build an object. Not everyone was able to find "ways" to the hillock, even fewer could competently implement the scheme for transferring money home and back. Well, some work addicts just worked hard like elephants and left home rich people. Just before my arrival in the zone, one such hard worker was released from there, having plowed up 5,000 rubles in two years!
This turned out to be an unexpected discovery: forced labor can earn good money. Not as significant as in foreign exchange transactions, but more than in research institutes. At the same time, only a maximum of 15 rubles per month was allowed to be spent in a shop-stall: a base amount of 9 rubles + 4 production rubles (if you meet the production rate) + 2 incentives, if you worked well, did not violate order. In general, sparsely, and only two food parcels of 5 kg per year were allowed. However, the conditions and opportunities for quality food here turned out to be much better. It was only necessary to apply a little mind and imagination, to correctly take into account local specifics.
And the specificity was that when the cordon was removed, anyone could enter the territory of the facility under construction. And hide in one of the many secluded places vodka, money, food - whatever! It was required to have only money, and not on the card, but live. The worked out financial scheme was as follows: money was transferred from the card to Moscow to parents, then went by reverse telegraphic transfer to a free resident of Krasnoyarsk, and then forwarded to me. As a rule, civilian employees who worked alongside us. And although 50 people of the supervisory staff snooped around the entire construction site, although freemen were strictly forbidden to contact with prisoners, it was not possible to detect numerous violations. And why, if it is beneficial to everyone?
The zone was building a large object of the Komsomol shock construction - KrAZ, the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant. In the meantime, my career also went up: from a shop worker, I rose to a contractor in the plant management. An engineering position, the main functions of which are accounting and organization of labor. Every day I followed the payroll, I knew exactly who was in which detachment and in which brigade, how long and for what I received. At the request of the superiors, I instantly gave out information on where this or that prisoner is now - in the isolation ward, hospital or at work. If at work, then where exactly, what does he do, what are his performance indicators. Nicely useful to me statistical education!
I was assigned a separate office, which I soon hung with schedules of operational reports, figures for putting to work, labor productivity and other numerical characteristics. And I did this job better than many experienced business executives, who were also enough in the zone: both in the noisy business of the Okean store and in the illegal export of diamonds to Israel. Although the salary was like that of an ordinary Soviet engineer - 120 rubles.
The high position also entailed certain life benefits, which in any zone only a few of the most significant prisoners in the structure have. I dined separately, much tastier and more nutritious than the others, sometimes I cooked on my own in my office on a small electric stove. Even arranged feasts! There were always scarce foods on my menu. Through the civilian staff, I actively contacted the will, and sometimes I even asked the senior warder to bring vodka and sausages. The contractors who were in my subordination could lead a person from one part of the zone to another, from residential to industrial. And not one, but with a load. Do you see how you can benefit from this?
The leadership of the zone did not pay attention to the petty abuses of the workmen, and their privileged position was easily explained. This is construction, and repair, this is crafts - prison crafts. Checkers and chess, pens, knives, lighters - the need for inventions is cunning. And to your house, and big man donate, maybe sell on the market. Consumer goods are a completely separate topic in the life of the zone, one of the sources of money and indulgences, and if you are handy, you will not be lost. Of course, 15-20 people are in a privileged position, no more. Their outfits are closed at the expense of the main production, and they live like in chocolate - no checks, no regime.
When I sat down for the second time, the word "colony" had already become slang, it was correct to call this institution "ITU". At the head of the ITU were the chief and a number of his deputies: for operational-regime work, political and educational, for production and for general issues. Each deputy had departments, and the deputy for production was at the same time the director of the plant where the prisoners worked. The plant produced both furniture and garden houses, but the main ones in the assortment were cases for Soviet TVs.
More than 30 people crowded into the large office of the head of the ITU - the heads of all detachments, heads of various services. There there was a distribution by detachments and workshops. They called me to the carpet. I said that I am an engineer-economist by education, I have serious work experience. He did not hide his ambitions and readiness for the most responsible positions. In general, I aroused such confidence that I was immediately appointed head of the assembly shop.
So I, a simple Soviet prisoner, ended up in a leadership position. First of all, my duties included the implementation of the plan, visits to the operatives, close work with the administration and with the convicts. I had to put pressure on the hillocks, who, by local standards, are very serious comrades. I had to argue with the administration, proving my case. I had to work hard.
The quality of leadership is determined not so much by knowledge and education, but by experience and a special mindset and character. I not only had an idea about statistics, accounting, about the economic assessment of the situation, but also had the qualities of a leader, enviable energy and activity. I was fond of psychology and philosophy and successfully applied knowledge in practice. Whether a tramp, a criminal, an authority or a hard worker - I found a common language with everyone and had a good relationship. And, of course, life and prison experience which has already been collected. At the same time, I always preferred to be myself and do things on my own. So, for example, for all the years in captivity, I did not make a single tattoo, considering it below my aesthetic principles.
My new status- the head of the assembly shop, my employees - 300 people. Our workshop received numerous wooden parts, covers, bottoms, reflectors. It was necessary to process, fit, glue and pre-polish them before the final varnishing, which was no longer carried out by us. Clean up your shirt. If there is a crack, open it with a scalpel, drive the emulsion into it and “fry” it with an iron. Practically a surgical operation. Each prisoner had to give out 26 such boxes every day. And then the quality control department begins to meticulously examine them, outline all sorts of shortcomings and defects with white chalk, and sometimes reject up to half of the products.
The main and immediate thing I saw was the clearing of the territory from the rubble of defective products. 70% of the useful space was occupied by tall floor-to-ceiling catacombs. Narrow corridors pierced them like ant passages, while the last rows often contained large "pockets". There, the convicts organized secluded rookeries, where they did the devil knows what. And I went to marriage with a powerful attack, and its number began to decrease. But all this horror has accumulated over the years, passed from one boss to another according to the balance sheet, and the numbers have not corresponded to reality for a long time.
The director of the enterprise could not get enough of it and encouraged me in every possible way. And if earlier the workshop had difficulty fulfilling the daily plan, now other important nomenclature indicators characterizing economic activity have begun to grow: efficiency, productivity.
And I also minimized theft, and in the zone they steal everywhere and that's it. They steal what is needed and what is not needed, what lies badly and what lies well. It seems that there are fences and locks all around, thorns and guards - do not believe your eyes! Logs and plywood, boards and nails, sandpaper, small and large - if it can be dragged away, it is dragged away. Go to the village, which is near the zone, and there you will certainly find a lot of everything stolen from behind bars. This didn’t work for me, full control over the storekeepers, no one will steal or take anything away. At night, everything was closed with massive bolts, even a mouse would not slip through.
All visiting inspections noted my workshop against the background of all the others. Everything flew like on a conveyor belt, no one was idle, no one was idle, everything was ticking like a clock. I received guests and examiners in my personal office, with magnificent mahogany veneer furniture, treated them to good tea with delicious sweets, and for a while I lost the sense of who was who.
The workers in the assembly shop constantly felt my concern, I was practically a father to them. It manifested itself not only in beautiful locker rooms, cozy showers and just in clean production. I encouraged and supported their diligence and ingenuity in every possible way: if they ensured the production rate, they got the opportunity to buy additional goods for 3-4 rubles in the stall, overfulfilled the plan - I signed lists for additional tea. Up to 5 packs per month. I tried to wear high-quality overalls, almost all working workers went in shiny melustine uniforms.
Of course, the high status brought me certain dividends. Good food, free movement from the work area to the living area and back, the opportunity not to attend roll call, unlimited contacts with civilians. I was granted visits of maximum duration twice a year for three days.
Then I started stepping on sawdust, made several rationalization proposals, even found buyers, to whom I sent a hundred or even more carloads of pressed sawdust. The overall economic effect of my innovations amounted to several million rubles, that is, if I caused damage to the country with my speculation, now I have more than covered it.
I completely freed the territory from waste, and the village began to experience a shortage of firewood. After all, before a truck of wood was taken out of the gates of the zone just for a bottle of vodka! They even got angry with me, but I continued to do my job. For the implementation of rationalization proposals, I received a diploma from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Mordovia and a number of patents. And if I had not been a prisoner, they would have been presented with the title of Honored Innovator of the RSFSR. But a very large monetary reward - 10,000 rubles - I still received after leaving the zone. And in the wild, it was very useful to me.
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STORIES
Talented producer (Yuri Aizenshpis)
Group "Kino", "Technology", "Moral Code", singer Linda, Vlad Stashevsky, Katya Lel, Dima Bilan ... Many fans of these and some other stars Russian stage they did not know and do not know that Yuri Aizenshpis lit them.
Yuri Shmilevich Aizenshpis (1945-2005) was one of the brightest Russian show business producers. It was Aizenshpis who introduced the concept of "producer" into the everyday life of Russian show business, was one of the first producers in Russia and convincingly proved that "anyone can be made a pop star."
“I call Aizenshpis the best producer. He worked all his life. He started with me... We are one of those who stood at the origins of Russian show business...
He was a very decent person. Tough, but respectable. He knew a lot about promotion. A greater number of his wards have achieved great heights with him. Many of his wards were not very grateful. But when they left him, everything went out.
His life made a big impression on me. Serve 17 years and become the number one producer. He hardly ate, did not sleep, everything worked. IN last years He didn't have a single healthy organ in his life. All free life he was working, not loafing like some people. This is a great man."
(Alexander Tolmatsky, producer of Decl, Oleg Gazmanov, the Combination group)
Yuri Aizenshpis was born immediately after the war, on June 15, 1945, in Chelyabinsk, where his mother, Muscovite Maria Mikhailovna Aizenshpis (1922-1991), a Jew by nationality, was evacuated. Father - Shmil Moiseevich Aizenshpis (1916-1989) - a Polish Jew who fled to the USSR, fleeing the Germans, was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.
The surname Aizenshpis in translation from the Yiddish language means "iron peak".
"I am Jewish. My mother is Jewish and my father is of the same nationality. And what from this? Absolutely nothing... I don't honor Judaism, I don't know its traditions and I'm not interested in its history. I do not consider the Jews to be either the most intelligent, or the most persecuted, or in general some kind of exceptional people. They say that Jews in Russia have always been oppressed. I don't know, I'm not sure. In any case, just as Stalin's repressions bypassed my family, anti-Semitism did not affect me at all. Neither at school nor further in my life did I hear offensive words like "Jew" or "Jew's muzzle" thrown in the face or in the back...
Many talk about anti-Semitism, about Zionism. These political phenomena somehow passed me by. I didn’t feel anything like that either at school or at the institute. And I didn’t feel it in prison”
(From the book by Yuri Aizenshpis "Lighting the Stars")
Hobbies
From childhood, Yuri was very fond of sports. He was fascinated by athletics, handball, volleyball. He could well have become a champion in one of these areas, but he had to leave the sport due to a leg injury.
“At school, I was surrounded by athletes who in the future became champions of the Union, champions of the Olympic Games. I grew up among them, I am proud that I knew many, was together at the training camp. But at the age of 17, due to an injury, I dropped out of big sport.
At that time I was fond of jazz. I had a tape recorder that I bought with my savings. My first recordings are jazz compositions by the world's leading musicians. John Coltrane, Woody Herman, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong... I could name about a hundred such names. Knew different directions avant-garde jazz, jazz-rock, popular jazz. Then I was drawn to the origins of rock music, to the founders of such a direction as rhythm blues. The circle of music lovers was small, everyone knew each other. If my friends got a record, I rewrote it.
Then there were "black markets" that were constantly dispersed. Neither exchange nor sale was allowed. The discs could be confiscated, they could be prosecuted for speculation. Records came to us from abroad through the strong barriers of customs laws and regulations. Some performers were simply banned. It was impossible to bring Elvis Presley, or, say, the Bury sisters. Well, you are amazed. Nevertheless, the records were brought and stuck with connoisseurs ".
After school, Yuri Aizenshpis entered the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics as an engineer-economist and graduated in 1968. And, since his sports career was closed for him due to an injury, he chose show business, despite the fact that at that time there was no such thing in the Soviet Union.
impresario first Soviet rock band
A graduate of MESI, Yuri Aizenshpis did not like his boring specialty. He was drawn to music. As a 16-year-old, he arranged underground concerts of the first Soviet rockers.
20-year-old Yuriy began his promotional and production activities back in 1965 with the Beatles project Sokol, the first rock band in the country. Even then, his courage and business acumen showed up.
“When Beatlemania swept the whole world, its echoes appeared in our country. My fellow musicians and I created the first rock band in the country. We lived in the Sokol metro area, and the group was also called Sokol. Now this group has already entered the history of the domestic rock movement. Originally performed by the Beatles English language. Then it was believed that the culture of rock music can only exist in such an international language as English.
Knowing my activity and organizational talent, my friends appointed me something like an impresario. For all of us, the matter was new, unknown, and we were like blind kittens. However, the group grew both creatively and financially.".
Together with the group, he got a job at his first job - at the Tula Philharmonic. Since the musicians toured a lot, Aizenshpis' monthly income reached 1,500 rubles (Soviet ministers then received only a thousand).
Yuri even then developed an original scheme for selling tickets for the performances of the Sokol group. After an oral agreement with the director of some club (or house of culture) in which his group was going to perform, Aizenshpis bought up all the tickets for the evening film screening in this club, and then distributed them at a higher price, already as tickets for the band's concert.
“A musician cannot live without communication with the audience. But in order to perform, it was necessary to go through tariffing in some state structures. Then I had the idea to organize a meeting of the Sokol group in a cafe with friends, like-minded people in music and in lifestyle. Subsequently, other groups followed this path. It was the very first such party. Everyone was satisfied. Then after all, during the terry stagnation, nothing bright happened. We decided to make these meetings permanent. My responsibilities included technical support and organization of concerts. The number of people wishing to join us increased rapidly. It was simply looming. So a lot of people stayed behind the doors.”.
Usually willing to listen live music there were more than seats in the hall, which sometimes heated up the atmosphere. Therefore, Aizenshpis in the 60s began to be the first in the Soviet Union to hire security to ensure order at concerts.
With the proceeds from ticket sales, he bought foreign currency, with which he bought from foreigners branded musical instruments for the group and first-class sound equipment for equipping the stage (the quality and purity of sound for Yuri was always very important). At that time in the USSR, all foreign exchange transactions were illegal, so he took a big risk by making such transactions.
“At first, there was nothing criminal in my activities. Another thing is the ideological issue. To those who followed the upbringing of the youth, we seemed to be a kind of saboteurs, corrupters. The group has already stirred up entire layers - they began to invite us to the institutes. It was then that both the Komsomol and some officials from law enforcement and financial agencies became alert. They said: you do not have the right to perform, you do not have an approved repertoire. Indeed, according to the then existing regulations, the group was illegal.
But we have evolved. The technical equipment required constant modernization. Earlier instruments, amplifiers were homemade. Over time, when the level of the group became high, proprietary equipment was needed. I creative person. Once heard good sound- live, pure, real - I can no longer listen to another playback. I bought the most advanced equipment for those times. And here for the first time I encountered real criminal law. And he began to cross it. Started doing business. Today it is a solid occupation, but then ... "
Speculator and gold exchanger
In 1968, 23-year-old Aizenshpis quit the Philharmonic and went to work as a junior researcher to the Central Statistical Office of the USSR with a salary of 115 rubles. But he rarely showed up at work. Using connections with store managers, he beat out scarce grocery orders for his colleagues. Therefore, his constant absences looked through the fingers. Such a free regime helped Aizenshpis lead a second, parallel life, which brought him completely different incomes.
Aizenshpis's guide to the world of currency fraud was Eduard Borovikov, nicknamed Vasya, who played in the football team of Dynamo masters. “I bought foreign currency or checks, for which I bought scarce goods in the Beryozka store and then sold them through intermediaries on the black markets. In those days, the dollar cost on the "black market" from two to seven and a half rubles. For example, a synthetic fur coat could be bought at Beryozka for $50 (from 100 to 350 rubles), and sold for 500 rubles..
His first major independent business was the purchase of Panasonic radios in the Beryozka foreign exchange store. These were elegant quad-range products in two models - $33 and $50 each. Aizenshpis decided to take 25 Panasonics to Odessa, where they were still rare and cost much more than in Moscow. And he did not lose - the receivers went flying.
In 1969, two outwardly inconspicuous, but very remarkable events took place in Moscow. First. A certain Mammadov, the first secretary of the Oktyabrsky district party committee of the city of Baku, opened a passbook in the capital in the name of his wife and put 195 thousand rubles on it - the then earnings of an ordinary worker for 108 years. And the second. In the same year, a commercial office of Vneshtorgbank was opened on Pushkinskaya Street, where gold of the highest standard was sold in bars weighing from 10 grams to one kilogram. Gold could be purchased by any citizen, but only for currency.
What did these events have to do with Aizenshpis? The most direct. As the first event eloquently showed, the USSR was already decaying, and in it, especially in the southern republics, the shadow economy and corruption flourished. In the same Azerbaijan, for example, positions were sold almost openly: the director of the theater - 10 thousand rubles, the secretary of the district party committee - 200 thousand, the minister of trade - a quarter of a million. Buyers of positions, in order to justify their expenses, engaged in extortion and plunder. The money received had to be invested somewhere. Best of all in "imperishable" - currency, diamonds or, as the second event suggested, in gold.
Wealthy corrupt officials from the southern republics of the Union in Moscow were merchandised by about a hundred gold exchangers who dealt in currency and gold on a large scale. Aizenshpis also managed to find his topic. A kilogram of gold in the very office of Vneshtorgbank was sold for one and a half thousand dollars. Even if you buy dollars for 5 rubles, a kilogram ingot cost 7,500 rubles. Plus, one ruble per gram was paid to foreign students who bought gold from the bank. As a result - 8500 rubles per kilogram ingot. And it was sold for enterprising guys from Baku for 20 thousand rubles. A total of 11,500 rubles profit - a giant profit, if you remember that the nurse then received 60 rubles a month.
Trade in precious metal was brisk. Aizenshpis had to buy almost every day from one and a half to three thousand dollars at the rate of 2-3 rubles per dollar. Every evening he was in contact with a large number of people - taxi drivers, prostitutes, waiters and even diplomats (for example, the son of the Indian ambassador). “The volume of transactions that I made reached a million dollars.”
“My business was connected with currency and gold - the most terrible, execution article. But the feeling of being right prevented me from correctly assessing the situation. There was no fear, not even a sense of danger. I thought I was acting naturally and normally. And much around, on the contrary, seemed unnatural and incomprehensible. Why is the initiative of one person stifled by state structures - be it trade, production, culture? Why, what to sing - dictates the state? I thought about it, but could not find an explanation, the worldview that was absorbed in the family, at school, at the institute interfered. Somewhere deep down I knew I was right. And that my business (then it was not said "business") is my own business. In short, he started with music, and ended up in prison. I left for a total of 17 years.”.
At the end of 1969, a prominent money changer Henrikh Karakhanyan, nicknamed the Crow, was arrested in Moscow, and on January 7, 1970, Aizenshpis's turn came. During the detention, 15,585 rubles and 7,675 dollars were in his apartment, that is, a salary for more than twenty years of work in his native research institute (as Yuri himself admitted in an interview, he even saved up more than 17,000 dollars and over 15,000 rubles). The main accusatory articles in the Aizenshpis case were the 154th, part 2 (speculation on an especially large scale), and the 88th, part 2 (violation of foreign exchange transactions). According to their totality, in the case of the first term, they were given, as a rule, no more than 5-8 years. But Aizenshpis got ten. Moreover, the enhanced regime and the confiscation of property. By a court verdict, not only currency, gold, mohair were confiscated from him (the list took seven pages), but also a collection of vinyl records from 5 thousand discs, and most importantly, a room of 26 square meters in the apartment where he lived with his parents and why - I made a separate personal account.
After serving in Krasnoyarsk, Tula and Pechora, Aizenshpis was released - on parole - in May 1977. But Yuri Shmilevich breathed the air of freedom for only three months, because. again took up the old. Already in August, having bought 4 thousand dollars from foreigners, he and his companion were arrested on the Lenin Hills. Former athlete Aizenshpis rushed to run. On the way, he managed to throw away all the dollars, rubles and even the keys to the apartment.
It didn't help... This time they gave him eight years. Plus the fact that he did not sit through on parole (PAROLE). In total - again a dozen. He served his second term in Mordovia, in the infamous Dubrovlag. The zone was called the "meat grinder" because almost every day someone was killed there.
“When Solzhenitsyn describes the nightmares of Soviet reality, as he calls them, I say: he would have lived in the conditions in which I lived. He was serving a sentence among those convicted under articles mainly political. I sat among the inveterate criminals. And this is really a nightmare. Every day blood is shed, every day lawlessness, lawlessness. But they didn't touch me. I am a sociable person, I adapt to any conditions. I could make friends with the general who was sitting with me. Could talk with a terry anti-Soviet. Could listen to an adherent of the Marxist-Leninist ideology. Could talk with the last criminal and find a way into his soul ".
Despite the fact that more than half of the prisoners were starving, he got around this problem. Thanks to his entrepreneurial talent, he managed to arrange a secret transfer of bribes to the prison, which could make his existence in the zone more bearable than for many other prisoners. At least he didn't starve.
Despite the fact that Yuri was not kept in one place in prison and was transferred to other zones, he knew how to adapt in every place and always had high level life.
“There, 70 percent of the prisoners are starving. I didn't starve. How? Money does everything, of course, unofficially. This is what my phenomenon, my peculiarity, consists in. No matter what environment I got into, I had to visit different colonies, different zones, different regions - everywhere I had the highest standard of living for an ordinary convict. This cannot be explained only by organizational skills, this is a phenomenon of character..
Last release
In August 1985, Aizenshpis was released again on parole - for good behavior, the term was thrown off for a year and eight months. Returning to the capital, he again took up his favorite speculation. I met a woman in a restaurant who was married to an Arab who often traveled abroad. A new friend suggested that Yuri Shmilevich update his wardrobe. The offered items were of higher quality than in the notorious "Beryozka". First, Aizenshpis dressed himself, then dressed his friends, and then turned the resale of fashionable clothes into a craft. His monthly salary was several thousand rubles. It is incomparable with what he had on gold, but still 5-6 times more than the ministers and secretaries of the Central Committee.
Trouble began when the resourceful Arab fell under the hood of the KGB. Tracking all his connections, the security officers came to Aizenshpis. In October 1986, on the newly purchased Zhiguli of the sixth model, Aizenshpis arrived at the next meeting near the Mossovet Theater. Here he was detained by police officers. In the trunk, they found several Grundig cassette recorders, a couple of super scarce video recorders and video cassettes.
Aizenshpis was incredibly lucky that his Arab accomplice managed to escape abroad in time. Without the main defendant, the criminal case, through the efforts of lawyers, successfully fell apart. Yury Shmilyevich left the prison bunk in April 1988, after serving in the pre-trial detention center for about a year and a half. This was his last posting.
Return
In total, Yuri Aizenshpis served 17 years for what any citizen can do now. Despite such a long term of imprisonment, Aizenshpis did not become embittered, did not lose his human appearance and did not become a criminal. He subsequently received a formal apology from the state.
“The world has changed while I was away. A new generation has emerged. Old acquaintances may not have forgotten me, but I did not know where to find them. When I was released, I fell into a state of terrible depression. Much time has been lost. Friends have achieved something. And I had to start from scratch. No money, no apartment, no family. When I was jailed, I had a girlfriend. What happened to her? Don't know.
I was afraid that I would never see my parents again. Fortunately, I saw. They even caught my new rise. My father had his own opinion on this matter. My parents are participants in the war, they have awards, they are communists. It seemed abnormal to them that their son was fond of incomprehensible music, rock. My father considered me guilty. The mother, perhaps, doubted, but did not admit it. She is an internally freer person, very courageous, very real, like millions of the same ordinary communists who went through the war and all the difficulties. She herself is from Belarus. Despite her state of health, my mother went to Minsk to attend a rally of partisans. And she died among her own, where she was born. She survived her husband by just a year.
Probably, I should have some kind of anger towards this system, towards everything Soviet. To serve 17 years in prison - yes, any person would be embittered. But I have no anger. In the most difficult period for myself, I managed to concentrate, gather my will. Maybe because it was already tempered. After all, it still exists - the struggle for existence. For survival."
“No matter what happens, I will never leave the country. Despite what I have experienced here, I am a patriot by nature. Like a bird that was born in this area, it will die in this area.”.
show business shark
Once free, Aizenshpis fell into the thick of perestroika. Soon, a friend Alexander Lipnitsky (stepson of Vadim Sukhodrev, Brezhnev's personal translator) introduced him to the then rock party. First, he headed the directorate of the Intershans festival, slowly studying the backstage and hidden springs of home-grown show business, and soon undertook to produce domestic musical performers.
Yuri Shmilyevich stated his credo with the utmost frankness: “Promoting an artist is the functional responsibility of a producer. And here any means are good. Through diplomacy, bribery, threats or blackmail". This is exactly how he acted, earning the nickname "sharks of show business."
His formula for success in show business: “The result is the product of the talent of the performer and the talent of the producer, the time spent by both, the money invested, the mutual desire and luck”.
Unknown musical artists who dreamed of breaking into big stage, there were many. Aizenshpis looked for those who could hook the viewer, who had at least some more or less attractive repertoire. First, through the media, mainly through television, he promoted them and made them famous, and then organized tours.
Viktor Tsoi
After being released from prison in 1988, Yuri got a job in creative association"Gallery", created by the city committee of the Komsomol. At first, Aizenshpis organized concerts of young talented performers. In 1989, he became the official producer of the Kino group, after which the group quickly reached a new level of popularity.
At the time of the beginning of cooperation with Aizenshpis, the Kino group was already quite famous. The most creatively and conceptually successful album “Blood Type” has already been recorded and mixed at home, after which, according to critics, Tsoi could not write anything for at least 2 years. Therefore, work with "Kino" also brought Yuri Shmilyevich to a new stellar level of production activity, allowed him to earn credibility in his business.
“For the first time after my release, I worked in a creative youth association. They, like mushrooms after the rain, began to be born in the field of all sorts of Komsomol and Soviet organizations. It was a kind of roof. Then the concept of "manager" did not appear yet.
One of my first actions was the organization of a concert of Leningrad rock bands. They performed then mainly in the houses of culture, and I pulled them out on the big stage.
And so I met Viktor Tsoi. In principle, this is not a coincidence. I found him myself and convinced him to work with me, I convinced him that I am not an accidental person in music. He told me what he went through. It somehow affected him, although I was completely unfamiliar to him, and Victor is not the kind of person who easily makes contact.
Our acquaintance turned into friendship. Then the friendship grew into a creative union. I do not want to ascribe extra laurels to myself. Of course, Tsoi and the Kino group were known even before our meeting. But they are known among fans of the Leningrad basement rock. And I decided to mold him into a rock star. And it succeeded. Work was carried out on the radio, in the press. On television, for the first time, Tsoi appeared in the Vzglyad program, which was then watched by the whole country. The issue was made by Mukusev. I convinced him that Choi is now needed by millions of teenagers.
Internally, Choi is a very interesting person, unlike anyone else. He was strongly influenced by his second wife. She is an esthete, from cinema circles and was very good friend. I think she also did a lot to create the image that is known to the masses. He became from a hungry, angry Tsoi, imposing and mysterious. This is how I recognized him - a well-formed performer who had already starred in "Assa". And managed to help him turn into a superstar, or maybe even into something more..
After the tragic death of Tsoi in 1990, Aizenshpis released the last "Black Album" of the Kino group. And for the first time in post-Soviet history, it does this regardless of the absolute monopolist in the recording market - the Melodiya company, taking a loan of 5 million rubles for this. The posthumous album was released with a circulation of 1,200,000 copies and brought Yuri Shmilyevich 24 million rubles.
"Technology" (1991-1992)
The next stage in Aizenshpis's career was the Technology group. And if "Kino" at the start of work with him already had some initial speed, then the producer sculpted the success of "Technology" practically "from scratch", being already an experienced sculptor.
“My second project, Technology, showed that you can take guys with ordinary, average talent and also make stars out of them. I dealt with amateur performance in general. Among the numerous diverse ensembles was the Bioconstructor group, which then fell apart into two subgroups. One was called "Bio", the other was just hatching its musical concept. Only two or three songs could be shown. These are the songs I liked. Even, maybe I liked it alone, because the concerts with their participation gathered no more than two hundred or three hundred people. But I felt perspective in them.
At first, I inspired them with confidence in their abilities: here, guys, you work with me - you are already stars. This confidence gave them the opportunity to liberate themselves. And when a creative person relaxes, he has a surge of strength, he begins to create something genuine. So are they. After 4 months, they became the group of the year and kept the highest rating all the time we worked together. Now their popularity is declining. There are many objective reasons for this, including, I believe, our gap. So even a superstar without a talented producer today cannot do anything.
We can say that show business is an already established industry - the same industry as the production of cars or iron smelting there. Here, too, there is its own technology and its own laws..
Ovation Award
In 1992, Aizenshpis received the Ovation Award as the best producer in the country. And from this year to 1993 he was the producer of the Moral Code, Young Guns groups, singer Linda.
"Young Guns" (1992-1993)
Short story"Domestic Guns'n'Roses", as they were called in the press, is equally instructive and typical for both musicians and producers. Having released a couple of bright hits, the group simply exploded from the internal confrontation of the participants. “Each of the Young Guns musicians wanted to be a leader, they constantly cursed, fought, broke instruments. My fault was that I didn't stop them in time.".
Linda (1993)
In 1993, Aizenshpis noticed a young talented performer Svetlana Geiman on the Jurmala stage and helped the singer take her first steps on big stage. Soon the name of the singer Linda becomes known both to the audience and in musical circles. At this time, the songs "Non-stop", I want your sex and the very first hit "Playing with Fire" (for which Fyodor Bondarchuk shot the singer's first video clip) appeared. The joint work of the artist and producer lasted less than a year, after which their creative paths diverged. To change the arrangement of Playing with Fire, composer Maxim Fadeev was involved, who then wrote music for Linda for some time.
Vlad Stashevsky (1993-1999)
The sex symbol of the mid-nineties, a favorite of girls of all ages, Vlad Stashevsky, in collaboration with Yuri Aizenshpis, released 5 albums, each of which became national bestseller. Yuri and Vlad met at the Master nightclub, where the Young Guns group, produced by Aizenshpis, performed. Yuri Shmilevich heard Vlad humming songs by Willy Tokarev and Mikhail Shufutinsky on an out-of-tune piano backstage, and asked where he studied music. As a result, they exchanged phone numbers, and after a while Aizenshpis called Vlad and made an appointment. Arriving at the place, Stashevsky met Vladimir Matetsky. They, together with Yuri Shmilyevich, arranged an audition for Stashevsky, and a week later the first song for his repertoire was ready. It was called "The Roads We Walk On". Stashevsky's first public performance took place on August 30, 1993 at a festival in Adjara.
The debut album "Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore" was the first release of the newly created company "Aizenshpis Records". In 1996, Stashevsky's third album, Vlad-21, sold 15,000 copies in the first week alone, which was an astronomical figure for a very young Russian CD market. In the same year, the performer rises to the top of another, not quite ordinary chart: the expert magazine recognizes him as the “most pirated” artist of the year. In 1997, at the invitation of the US Senate, Vlad Stashevsky gives solo concert at Brooclin Park in front of over 20,000 people.
Other projects and achievements in show business
In 1994, Yuri was one of the organizers of the international music festival"Sunny Adjara". Participated in the establishment of the "Star" award.
According to the results of his creative activity in 1995, Aizenshpis again received the Ovation Award.
Then he was the producer of the singer Inga Drozdova (1997), the singer Katya Lel (1997), the singer Nikita (1998-2001), the singer Sasha (1999-2000), the Dynamite group (2001).
In 2001, Yuri Aizenshpis was invited to take the post of CEO of Media Star, the largest production company at that time.
Aizenshpis' latest project is Dima Bilan (2002).
Different roles of Yuri Aizenshpis
In 2005, he played a small role in the film " The night Watch". He also proved himself as a writer, becoming the author of the autobiographical book Lighting the Stars.
Personal life
Yuri had a wife - Elena Lvovna Kovrigina, with whom he lived in a civil marriage and from whom his son Mikhail was born in 1993.
Death
Yuri Aizenshpis died on September 20, 2005 from a heart attack at the age of 60. He was buried near Moscow, at the Domodedovo cemetery.
Yuri Aizenshpis is called one of the first producers in Russia. It was he who opened the Kino group to the general public, brought Dima Bilan to the big stage. Aizenshpis died 8 years ago, but there are still a lot of rumors around his name.
Withdrawn a fabulous amount
Aizenshpis's sister, Faina Shmilievna, still remembers her brother almost every day. Although in childhood, according to a relative, they did not have to communicate so often. After all, Aizenshpis spent all his youth in prison.
“We had a completely different childhood,” Faina recalls. While I was growing up, he was in prison. My parents were very worried, but I probably didn’t realize everything.
Yuri Shmilevich got to places not so remote for currency fraud and speculation on an especially large scale. In Soviet times, this was a serious article. Relatives still remember: the first time he was detained right at the entrance on Christmas Day - January 7, 1970. He profitably sold gold, returned home. A fabulous sum of sixteen thousand rubles and seven thousand dollars, as well as imported equipment, were confiscated from him. Aizenshpis was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released early after serving seven years. However, less than a month later he was again put on trial for speculation - and received eight years.
According to Faina Shmilievna, the relatives could not even imagine that after such a thing, Yuri would become famous producer. Although organizational skills manifested themselves in his youth. From the age of 20, he worked as an administrator with the Sokol rock group.
The departure of Stashevsky was a blow
Freed, Yuri Shmilevich began to engage in show business. At first he helped the Kino group and Viktor Tsoi, then he found Vlad Stashevsky. In a matter of months, he made a real idol out of an unknown boy, whom the whole country lusted after.
“My brother never shared his difficulties, although, of course, there were plenty of them in his work,” says Faina Aizenshpis. - But this topic was closed, he always answered our questions: “It’s better not to talk about this.” Yura was demanding and tough in his work, but at the same time a very fair person. With us, he was completely different: calm, reasonable - we had ordinary family relationships.
Joseph Prigogine once admitted: Aizenshpis had no luck with the artists. Having achieved glory, they betrayed him. At first glance, they parted with Stashevsky quietly and calmly. Vlad decided that he could work on his own. Yuri Shmilevich released the singer, but deep down he was very worried. The departure of Vlad, in which he put his whole soul, was a real blow. Unfortunately, far from the first - many whom Aizenshpis brought to people betrayed him, left him with nothing.
- Once my brother told me that from somewhere he came to no one famous boy, he fiddled with it, - continues the sister of the producer. - It was Dima Bilan. It was Yura who helped him to rise, his ascent happened before our eyes.
Until the last heard his heartbeat
There are still a lot of rumors around the death of Aizenshpis. By official version, he died of a heart attack, but in show business they believe that this is not so.
- I had a heart attack, - Faina Shmilievna sighs. - She herself was under the door in intensive care, where he was taken. We spent the whole day there, I still remember everything in the smallest detail. We heard a heartbeat - everything is working loudly in intensive care!
Those close to the producer do not hide: Aizenshpis never really thought about his health. Much more important to him were his wards. For example, before his death, he was very worried about whether Bilan would take well-deserved awards at one of the prestigious music awards. Dima took the awards and dedicated them to his first producer, who lived only 60 years.
“I think that the prison has done its job,” says Faina Aizenshpis. So many years of life are actually lost. Every day is a struggle for existence, health is ruined. Everyone told him that he needed to rest, work less. But he did not listen to anyone, for him it was a normal existence. Therefore, if the brother were alive, he would not change anything.
Yuri Shmilevich (Viktor Shmulevich) has remained in recent years a loner Robinson on the once fertile land of domestic show business, scorched by majors. He was with no one - a rare quality. Divided between Channel One (and affiliated structures) and the clan of Igor Krutoy, the world of show business idolized this man.
He supported good relations with Konstantin Ernst, and his artists - Dima Bilan and "Dynamite" - were practically the only non-Ernst artists in the commercial projects of Channel One. Starting with the late night TV show "Golden Gramophone" and ending with the pop collections of Real Records.
At the same time, Yuri Shmilevich managed to maintain pleasant commercial relations with Muz-TV and all the projects of ARS, another major show business tycoon. He had a fight with Igor Krutoy quite recently, after a strange situation with the Muz-TV award. Dima Bilan was supposed to receive this award this summer, but did not have time to come to the ceremony. Aizenshpis called Krutoy. He answered in the spirit that he would not come - he would not receive. Bilan did not come and did not receive the award. Aizenshpis turned his car halfway to the Olimpiysky, like Primakov on his famous visit to America, and was offended.
Many people know this story. But few people remember that after that quarrel, Dima Bilan's clips continued to appear on the Muz-TV channel, and not a single serious agreement between two serious partners was violated.
Yuri Aizenshpis was a businessman from God, in whom he did not believe. The Phrygian king Midas, who turns everything he takes into gold coins. It was a gift for which I had to serve in prisons, first 10 years, and then another seven. Yes, Aizenshpis tritely sold gold and currency. But he fartseval in a big way. “In 1986, during a medical examination at Butyrka, after several on-duty questions about health, the doctor suddenly asked me if I was Aizenshpis, who was involved in the Sokol group in the late 60s? And he gave me the Youth magazine, where there was a lot of material about me. It said that I was to the Falcon what Brian Epstein was to The Beatles", - Aizenshpis later recalled his conclusion.
The first rock band in the Soviet Union called "Sokol" was created with the help of the catchy Aizenshpis. He never became a musician himself. But forever acquired a passion for "making" stars. One can imagine how deep a passion this is for a non-musician. As in a joke: no matter how much you earn, more money You won't earn money than steal.
We get an ambiguous portrait. The rise of Aizenshpis fell on the period of the initial accumulation of capital in Russia. And Yuri Shmilevich was one of the most prominent representatives domestic capitalists of the new formation. Black cash registers, bags of money, gang fights. Now it seems strange that he was simply not killed in those years. His assistants were killed, his "sponsors" were killed. Yuri Shmilevich managed to negotiate with all potential "customers".
Oh, this magical concept of "agreement". Yuri Shmilevich mastered it to perfection. When Viktor Tsoi agreed to work under the direction of Aizenshpis, he came to the cult television program “Vzglyad” at that time with absolutely fantastic ratings at the present time and convinced Vladimir Mukusev to show Viktor Tsoi in the program. The next day, Tsoi woke up a superstar, and Aizenshpis a year later became a simple Soviet millionaire.
A little later, Aizenshpis borrowed 50 thousand Soviet rubles and released the Kino disc at his own expense. Along the way, sending into oblivion the state monopoly of the Melodiya company on the release of gramophone records. Thus began the market sound recording in Russia.
However, Aizenshpis's hands were not stained with blood. Even the most aggressive ill-wishers of Aizenshpis admitted that he "agreed". But he never eliminated his competitors, as happened in the shooting story of the leadership of the ZeKo Records record label, when one co-owner “ordered” another.
After the death of Viktor Tsoi, who literally carried golden testicles for a producer who had just served time, Aizenshpis finally broke with rock music. Never-before-seen casinos, nightclubs and private TV channels were opened in the country. Yuri Shmilevich went headlong in combination with domestic pop music.
First, he made imitators of the new wave style and specifically the English Depeche Mode group "Technology" the stars. Those turned out to be completely stupid students and sunk into oblivion immediately after the break with Aizenshpis. A few more experiments with the "Moral Code" and "Young Guns", and the producer believed in his own strength as a creator. He took a guy with no special abilities and made him a star on a dare. The guy's name was Vlad Stashevsky.
Along the way, Yuri Aizenshpis received the title of “best producer”, led a dozen one-day groups and festivals, got involved in homosexual scandals that were whispered all over Moscow by word of mouth, spent money on a Novo-Russian scale and made a lot of new money. He founded a couple of record companies that existed before the first tax audit or before the quarrel of the founders-investors. Life drove Yuri Shmilevich forward.
Dima Bilan and the Dynamite group became a breath of life-giving air for Aizenshpis. The first boy band in the country and the first truly talented artist for Aizenshpis, they became a reliable support for the aging producer. These artists didn't want to leave, these artists wanted to work. Spitz, as his close friends called him, could make plans for several years ahead. This was an unprecedented foundation for the sick heart of Yuri Shmilyevich.
The notorious media wars and the harsh pressure of the majors eliminated any significant figures outside the position in the corresponding department of the corporation or the floor of Ostankino from the field of Russian show business. Yuri Aizenshpis was the only warrior who was allowed to remain on the battlefield of the giants. Is it a conceivable thing - the artists of StarPro, created by him, performed on a talk show of opposing TV channels on the same day. When things are tied to very big money, such fantastic phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary respect for gray hair. But Aizenshpis knew how to negotiate.
In one of recent interviews Yuri Shmilyevich has an important remark of our hero, which explains a lot in his character. “It may be naive, but I value friendship above all else. I am ready to give a lot for friendship, ”the show business shark admits. In our country, desperately saturated with Asianism, the ability to make friends keeps business. And saves life.
Except for the very last judge. Cover the mirrors with cloth. About the deceased - only good things. And forget everything you read here.
Yuri Shmilevich Aizenshpis. Born July 15, 1945 in Chelyabinsk - died September 20, 2005 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian music manager, producer.
Father - Shmil (nee Shmul) Moiseevich Aizenshpis (1916-1989), was born in Poland, then fled to the USSR, fleeing the Nazis. Fought during the Great Patriotic War reached Berlin. The real name Shmul was confused by the passport officers, who recorded him as Shmil.
Mother - Maria Mikhailovna Aizenshpis (1922-1991), originally from Belarus, grew up in the village of Starye Gromyki, her elder brother Andrei Gromyko taught at her school. In 1941 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Minsk University, but did not receive a diploma due to the start of the war. She fled to Rechitsa, later ended up in the Rechitsa partisan detachment, wrote leaflets, and ran a partisan newspaper. Then she joined the advancing Red Army. She was awarded medals and orders.
It is known that the parents of Yuri Aizenshpis met in 1944 at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow.
Younger sister- Faina Shmilievna Nepomnyashchaya (Aizenshpis) (born July 22, 1957), teacher of history and social studies, teaches at the School of Leadership Lauder Etz Heim No. 1621.
Aizenshpis's mother was evacuated to Chelyabinsk due to pregnancy. There she gave birth to a son.
Parents worked in the Main Directorate of Aerodrome Construction (in GUAS).
Until 1961, they lived in a wooden barracks, then they got an apartment in the prestigious Sokol district of Moscow. From childhood, he was friends with classmate Vladimir Alyoshin and went to the same sports school with him.
IN youth Yuri went in for sports - handball and athletics. achieved good results, but due to a leg injury, the sport had to be abandoned.
In 1968 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in engineer-economist.
He worked at the CSO (Central Statistical Office).
Was fond of music. "In my youth I was a terrible music lover, and I had a unique collection of vinyl discs in Moscow - about seven thousand. I did not just collect them, I felt everything"- he said in an interview.
Since 1965, as an administrator, he collaborated with the rock group Sokol. In a roundabout way, he got records with recordings of foreign stars - Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, the Beatles, which were then performed by the Sokol group. At first, the team performed only in the nearest cafe, occasionally in the area of the House of Culture and on dance floors.
But Yuri Aizenshpis achieved that in 1966 the group came under the wing of the Tula Regional Philharmonic and all its members received official status - already as the Silver Strings VIA. Now the group could tour the country, recorded their only song "Film, Film" for Fyodor Khitruk's cartoon "Film, Film, Film".
Criminal record of Yuri Aizenshpis
Developed an original scheme of the team's activities. After an oral agreement with the director of the club to hold a concert, the administrator bought up tickets for the evening demonstration of the film and distributed them at a higher price. For the first time, he involved in the work of people who ensured order during the performance of the group.
January 7, 1970 was arrested. During the search, 15,585 rubles and 7,675 dollars were confiscated. During interrogations, the young director claimed that he dreamed of getting a branded electric guitar for the guys. That is why, for his own money, he bought tickets for a concert at the state price at the box office of the Palace of Culture, and then sold them on the street with an extra charge. Convicted under article 88 (Violation of the rules on foreign exchange transactions) and 78 (Smuggling) for 10 years.
Released from prison in 1977 on parole.
However, almost immediately after his release, he again engaged in currency fraud. Yuri Aizenshpis bought up checks, sold them at Beryozka, and then sold the acquired scarce goods. With the proceeds, through the administrators and waiters of hotels, he bought foreign currency from foreigners, and then checks again. At that time, Vneshtorgbank began to sell gold in Moscow for foreign currency. Yuri Aizenshpis took up gold fartsovka. He bought gold bars with dollars at the branch of Vneshtorgbank and sold them to Caucasian businessmen.
As a result, he was re-arrested and received 10 years of strict regime with confiscation of property (including his parents' apartment).
He sat in the Krasnoyarsk-27 zone, where he launched a lively speculation in tea, sugar and vodka. Then he began to occupy leadership positions at local construction sites.
The term was reduced, he was released in 1985. And a year later, he again ended up in a pre-trial detention center - in the summer of 1986, policemen found several imported tape recorders and one VCR with video cassettes in his car. But the matter did not reach the court - Perestroika broke out. After serving almost 1.5 years in a pre-trial detention center, Yuri Aizenshpis was released.
In total, Yuri Aizenshpis spent almost 17 years behind bars. Later received corroborating documents on all counts.
In the 1980s, for some time he worked at the Gallery at the Komsomol city committee, organizing concerts for young performers.
Producer activity of Yuri Aizenshpis
From December 1989 until his death in 1990, he was the director and producer of the Kino group. In 1990, using borrowed funds, he released the Black Album ( latest work group "Kino"), one of the first to break the state monopoly on the production of records.
In 1991-1992, he collaborated with the Technology group.
Then he was the producer of the groups "Moral Code", "Young Guns".
In 1992-1993 he produced the singer.
In 1993-1999 - producer of the singer. According to some reports, Aizenshpis was assisted in the promotion of Vlad Stashevsky by the criminal authority Alexander Makushenko, known as "Sasha Gypsy". The producer himself said about this project: “In the case of Stashevsky, I wanted to show everyone the role of a producer. For the first time, I called myself a producer when I started working with Tsoi. When he died, I had to do something, and I decided to make such a project: to find a person who would absolutely even did not dream of a career as an artist, and make him an artist".
Yuri Aizenshpis became one of the most respected Russian leaders show business, to do business with which was considered an honor by many stars. He had great connections and opportunities. Winner of the national Russian music award "Ovation" in the nomination "Best Producer" in 1992 and 1995.
Participated in the organization of the International Festival "Sunny Adzharia" (1994) and in the establishment of the music award "Star".
In 1999-2001, he promoted the singer Nikita, as well as the singer.
Since 2000, he has been promoting the Dynamite group.
Yuri Aizenshpis and the Dynamite group
Since 2001 - CEO Media Star company.
His last project was later popular singer.
"I do not work for the sake of "thank you". I work for the satisfaction of my interests, and I like it. It can be compared to the work of a gardener who works in the garden all his life. I like creative process, and although show business is at the forefront of the show, for me creativity is more important, business - then. It really is. If I were a businessman, I would not have achieved the results that I have"- said Yuri Aizenshpis.
Death of Yuri Aizenshpis
On September 21, 2005, the MTV RMA-2005 ceremony should take place, where Aizenshpis' ward Dima Bilan was nominated in the nominations " Best Performer», « Best Composition"," The best pop project "," Best Artist" And " Best video". And on September 22, the presentation of the first DVD of Dima Bilan was scheduled. But the producer did not see the success of his protégé.
Yuri Aizenshpis had diabetes and a heart condition. On September 19, 2005, Aizenshpis was hospitalized at the City Clinical Hospital No. 20 for examination, he felt better. But on September 20, 2005, at about 20:00, Yuri Aizenshpis died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 60.
He was buried near Moscow next to his parents at the Domodedovo cemetery.
"I think that the prison did its job. So many years of life are actually lost. Every day is a struggle for existence, health is ruined. Everyone told him that he needed to rest, work less. But he did not listen to anyone, for him it was a normal existence" , - noted his sister Faina Aizenshpis.
The growth of Yuri Aizenshpis: 165 centimeters.
Personal life of Yuri Aizenshpis:
Mikhail Aizenshpis was detained by the police in February 2014 on suspicion of drug use, 1.5 grams of cocaine and a suitcase with money were confiscated from him.
After the death of Aizenshpis, Elena Kovrigina married Leonid Alexandrovich Goiningen-Gühne, director of television programs for TNT, Ren-TV, DTV channels. She sued Dima Bilan because of his failure to fulfill the contract and the use of a pseudonym invented by Aizenshpis.
Filmography of Yuri Aizenshpis:
2005 - Day Watch - guest
2005 - How the idols left. Viktor Tsoi (documentary)
Bibliography of Yuri Aizenshpis:
"Lighting Stars. Notes and advice of the pioneer of show business»
“From a farmer to a producer. Business people in the USSR
Viktor Tsoi and others. How the stars light up
