Vladimir Mulyavin

Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin (; (Uladzimer Heorhijevič Muliavin); 12 January 1941 – 26 January 2003) was a Belarusian rock musician and the founder of the folk-rock band Pesniary.

Appraisal In 2011 beZ bileta's frontman Vitaly Artist called Mulyavin “the cosmonaut No. 1 in Belarusian music.”

Personal life Mulyavin had a brother Valery, who played with the Pesniary; he died in 1973 in Yalta. Vladimir Mulyavin married three times, first to Lidia Karmalskaya, with whom he had a daughter Maria (born 1961) and a son Vladimir Mulyavin Jr. (1975–2006). Mulyavin left Karmalskaya in 1975 and had little contact with his son. After the death of his father, Mulyavin Jr. played viola with the Pesnyary in 2004–2005. He was sentenced in 2005 for a brawl and distribution of narcotics, and died in jail in 2006.

After leaving Karmalskaya, Mulyavin married Svetlana Slizskaya; they had a daughter Olga born in 1976. He divorced Slizskaya in 1981 and married actress Svetlana Penkina; they had a son Valery born in 1982.

Legacy In July 2004, a street in Minsk (Bulvar Mulyavina) was named after Vladimir Muliavin. in 2001 Mulyavin and "Pesniary" get star on the Star Square in Moscow. In 2006, a monument of Mulyavin was raised at his grave. The same year, a commemorative plaque was installed in Yekaterinburg, and a monument of Mulyavin will be completed in the city around August 2014. A documentary of Mulyavin was filmed in 2007. Belarusian postal stamp dedicated to Mulyavin was issued in 2009.