Stas Namin (birth name Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, born in 1951, November 8, Moscow, USSR) – Soviet and Russian musician, composer and producer, artist and photographer, theatre and movie director, founder and leader of The Flowers rock-band; founder, producer and promoter of Gorky Park and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.From the very beginning of perestroika he started numerous innovative projects which were some of the first post-Soviet era private enterprises, and helped pave the way for Russian show business in the new era. In the second half of the 1980s, Namin vividly demonstrated that he was a pioneer in the new Russia's show business arena. His company SNC (Stas Namin Centre) became virtually the first independent corporation which broke the state monopoly.Organizer of the first Russian independent producing Centre which launched the careers of many superstar Russian performing artists. He initiated, produced and promoted the first music festivals ever held in Russia. Among them:Moscow Music Peace Festival at Lenin Stadium in 1989. There he invited Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, The Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Cinderella and others, and also included the Gorky Park band intj the program. The Festival became widely viewed as the Russian equivalent of Woodstock.The series of One World festivals. Conceptually, these festivals gather performers of different nations, races and religions on one stage. The global aim of the festival is to overcome national, social and religious separation, seeking ways to achieve real worldwide unity and fraternity of the people.Rock from Kremlin festival – a live concert of previously banned national rock stars, staged at the Kremlin Palace.A pioneer of the Russian independent entertainment industry, he founded the country’s first private (non-governmental) design studio, concert agency, record label, radio station, television company and others. In 1999 he founded, produced and promoted the first in the country Theatre of Musicals. The first plays were the legendary American rock musical Hair, staged in Russian exactly at the time the war in Chechnya began; and the original version of rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar – this version became the first to be presented in Jerusalem.Additionally, he has directed the largest independent international festivals of Russian culture in his country and abroad in 2003–2007 (USA, Germany, China, South Korea).The last ten years Namin soaked himself in personal artistic endeavor in the fields of theatre (creation of unique language of dramatic musical and modern musical drama), art, photography (his new projects are represented by the museums and galleries over the world), and music – music for the theatre (several musicals), experiments in ethnics (albums Russian Rural Songs, One World Music Freedom, Meditation) and symphony (eight part symphony Fall in Saint-Petersburg). In 2013 Namin and The Flowers released two new concert albums – Homo Sapiens and Flower Power. In 2014 Namin was
Los Angeles, CA, USA: paying his taxes in California. [April 2012]
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His father was a Red Army general, and his uncle was designer of the Soviet MIG fighter jet.
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His grandfather was soviet communist politician Anastas Mikoyan who worked for Joseph Stalin.
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Founder of the Russian pop-rock group "Tsvety" ("Flowers") in 1969, inspired by the psychedelic American hippie movement (think "flower power" -- the name "Tsvety") The band was banned in the USSR for several years. During the ban, they were simply called "Gruppa Stasa Namina" ("Stas Namin's Group").
Composer
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Year
Status
Character
Pesochnye chasy
1984
Fantaziya na temu lyubvi
1981
Actor
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Year
Status
Character
Fantaziya na temu lyubvi
1981
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Free to Rock
2016
Documentary executive producer
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pesnya goda 2009
2010
TV Special music: "My zhelaem schastya Vam!" - as S. Namin
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Free to Rock
2016
Documentary board of advisors
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Free to Rock
2016
Documentary
Himself
Evening Urgant
2014
TV Series
Himself
Fabrika zvezd: Vozvrashchenie
2011
TV Series
Himself - Judge
Pesnya goda 2009
2010
TV Special
Himself - Special Guest / Honorary Award: 'Diplom Pesni goda'