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Valentin Strykalo (born Yury Kaplan, in October 2, 1988, Zaporozhie, Ukraine) is a rising star of Ukrainian alternative music scene. Yuriy's fictional character, Valentin Strykalo, was first introduced to public in the dawn of 2008 through a series of vlog-styled humorous videos. He presented himself as a young musician, claiming to be a talented performer and a singer-songwriter from a small village in Zhytomyrskiy region, Ukraine. Each of his videos addressed one of the xUSSR pop-stars, including Timati, Vyacheslav Malezhik, duo of Potap and Nastya Kamenskih and PHARAOH. Each video consisted of a small introduction; a song, written and performed...

Valentina Tolkunova (12 July 1946 – 22 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian singer and was bestowed the title of Honored Artist of RSFSR (1979) and People's Artist of RSFSR (1987). Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity, and her voice was noted for its clarity. .

Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров {Valentin Silvestrov} (b. 1937) s a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music. Born on the 30th September 1937 in Kiev, Ukraine, Silvestrov began private music lessons at the age of fifteen. He studied piano at the Kiev Evening Music School from 1955 to 1958, then at the Kiev Conservatory from 1958 to 1964; composition under Borys Lyatoshynsky, harmony and counterpoint under Levko Revutsky. Some, if not most, of his works could be considered neoclassical and modernist. In 1974, under pressure to conform to both official precepts of socialist realism and fashionable modernism, Silvestrov chose to withdraw from...