The future singer Vladimir Nechaev was born on July 28, 1908 in the village of Novo-Malinovo in the Tula province (now Orel). Now the village is called Novomalinovo and territorially belongs to the settlement of Paramonovskoye.
Vladimir's family was wealthy. At her disposal she had a mill, forests rich in game, an inn, and also owned a sprawling garden. His mother, Anna Georgievna, died of tuberculosis when the boy was 11 years old. After that, father Alexander Nikolaevich remarried.
Childhood boy
A neighbor in the village, Maria Yakovlevna, recalled that the singer was a very friendly and sociable boy. They often started concerts with the guys and staged various productions. Then the names of young actors sounded everywhere in the village: Volodya Nechaev, Marfa Zalygina and her brother Demyan, Kolya Besov.
Most of all, the troupe loved to perform in one abandoned house, because there was such scope for children's inexhaustible imagination. Unfortunately, the house has not survived. In the villages of that time, many sang, danced and showed their creative abilities.
But not everyone managed to become a prominent artist. In the 1930s, the dispossession of wealthy families began, and Volodya and his brother Kolya had to leave for Moscow.
Vladimir Nechaev: the youth of the artist
At the age of 17, the artist moved to Moscow and began working as a temporary worker at a stud farm. Later he worked at a construction site, where he erected the Central Telegraph. Over the years, he performed in radio studios, which he himself helped create. In 1927, the rest of his family also came to Volodya - his father, the singer's uncle and their three sisters, his father's wife and their common children. All of them settled near Shcherbinka in the village of Bykovka.
After the first performances and productions with friends in the village, he began to be invited to perform in the church as part of the local choir and to creative evenings. Actually, Nechaev studied vocals on his own, in various amateur circles. Then at the music school and opera and drama studio of Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky with A. V. Nezhdanova and M. I. Sakharov.
For three years he worked at the Moscow Central Theater of Working Youth. Since 1942, he became a soloist of the All-Union Radio, which was a significant rise in the career and creative development of Volodya. He sang lyrical and romantic songs that were pleasant to listen to in the evenings. He released such compositions as: “Autumn Leaves”, “We were not friends with you”, “Hear me, good one”, etc.
Lifelong dating
In the same year, he met the artist Vladimir Bunchikov, who wrote about him in his memoirs: “Before me stood a thin young man, quite friendly. Could I then assume that we will be connected by a strong friendship, 25 years long? Their creative union began with the composition "Evening on the Road" by Solovyov-Sedoy and Churkin.
Nechaev and Bunchikov gave concerts in different parts of the USSR. These were not only large cities with huge concert halls, but also medium-sized towns, small villages, mines, hospitals and frontier outposts to inspire listeners. Among the most famous and beloved songs of the people were: “We have not been at home for a long time”, “Asterisk” and “We are people of great flight”.
People understood the lines from these songs very well, they were so dear. Perhaps that is why Nechaev became the people's favorite. In 1959, Vladimir was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Vladimir Nechaev: Personality of the performer
Many said that he was a man with a big, broad soul, had many different interests and talents. He was also a kind and gentle person. He attracted people to him with warmth, openness and wit.
He did not have a sufficient and strong vocal school, everything “bit by bit” was collected from different places and from different teachers. But he attracted with his originality, innate artistic qualities, stage charm and living each song. The artist always knew exactly what he was singing about and felt every text. In addition, he was brilliantly able to convey all this to the listener or viewer.
His voice had little power or range. He was not powerful and deep, but he could creep into the soul and stay there forever. It was this that became his hallmark when performing lyrical compositions with smooth voice overflows and melodic accompaniment. In his songs there was an easy game, flirting and slyness in behavior and voice.
Circumstances of death of the artist
In April 1969, they prepared a concert in honor of the long-term creative activity of the duo Nechaev and Bunchikov. The singer took care of all the preparations for the concert. A few days later he was already performing at his concert with an unknown microinfarction. On April 11, while walking, he became ill, an ambulance took him to the hospital, but could not save him. There was a massive heart attack.
His friend and colleague Bunchikov did not immediately find out about the incident. He was out of town, besides that day was the birthday of his grandson. In Moscow, rumors began to circulate that one of the famous duo had died. The Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper put everything in its place, expressing its condolences to the relatives and friends of Vladimir Nechaev.
