Yulia Nachalova

Yulia Viktorovna Nachalova (; 31 January 1981 – 16 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian singer, actress and television presenter.

Early life Nachalova was born in 1981 in Voronezh in a musical family. Her grandfather, a combine driver and Hero of Labour, played accordion and balalaika. Both Nacholova's parents were professional musicians working at the Voronezh Philharmonic. Nachalova was taught singing from birth and performed for the first time at the age of five in the Philharmonic.

Career Nachalova rose to fame in Russia as a child star following her participation in the Channel One programme Morning Star in 1991. Recognising her potential, her family moved to Moscow. In 1992, she presented the children's music programme Tam-tam novosti. Subsequently, she released her debut album Akh shkola, shkola. She graduated from the pop-jazz department from the Gnessin Musical College.

In 2003, Nachalova was one of the participants in the adventure game show Last Hero 4: End Game. In 2006, Nachalova released two albums, Davay pogovorim o lyubvi and Raznye pesni o glavnom. In 2009, she was part of the jury of the children's version of New Wave.

Nachalova flew to United States in 2010 to record her final and only English-language album Wild Butterfly,

On 8 March 2019, during a rehearsal for an event in Moscow, Nachalova passed out. She was subsequently taken to hospital. Her situation worsened and she started suffering from gangrene in her legs. On 13 March, she was brought into an artificial coma as doctors operated on her legs.

Nachalova died in the morning of 16 March 2019. Her doctor cited her death as an accident, stating that she died from an infection following the operation and claiming that rumours saying that Nachalova suffered from lupus and diabetes were untrue. Her doctor claimed that Nachalova's death was a result of a "list of unfortunate events", which included her earlier problems with anorexia nervosa in the early 2000s.

Personal life Nachalova was married to singer Dmitry Lanskoy (Premyer-Ministr) from 2001 to 2004. From 2006 to 2011 she was married to the footballer Evgeni Aldonin. They had one child, a daughter named Vera Aldonina (born 1 December 2006).

Discography Albums Title Details Ах, школа, школа Released: 1995 Label: Unknown Format: Cassette; CD Музыка любви Released: 2005 Label: Sintez Production Format: CD Давай поговорим о любви Released: 2006 Label: Sintez Production Format: CD Разные песни о главном Released: 2006 Label: Sintez Production Format: CD Лучшие песни Released: 2008 Label: Sintez Production Format: CD Непридуманные истории Released: 2012 Label: Misteriya Zvuka Format: CD Wild Butterfly Released: 2013 Label: United Music Group Format: Digital download, CD

Singles Title Year Peak chart positions RUSAirplay "Lyubov-raketa"(with Premyer-Ministr) 2004 24 "Lyubit tebya"(with Santas) 2005 152 "Dlya tebya" 2009 252 "Ya vybirayu" 2018 — "Ne otpuskay"(with Dmitry Malikov; posthumously) 2020 —

Legacy Critics noted Nachalova for her strong voice, but pitied her for a weak and generally unknown repertoire. Her most famous song was "Geroy moego romana", which was noted to be her signature song. Four weeks later, on 27 April 2019, Hello, Andrey! held a second episode centred around her death. On 18 March, one day before her death, Russia-1 broadcast a Live on Air episode titled The last 24 hours of Yulia Nachalova and three days later, another show following her burial in Moscow. Let Them Talk broadcast a total of five episodes on Nachalova's illness and subsequent death.

In 2020, Nachalova's father and aunt published a collection of letters from Yulia Nachalova.

In 2021, Channel One Russia produced and aired a three-part documentary series about her life titled Prolonged History of Yulia Nachalova.