Soviet New Year's Eve 1965: cosmonauts, crooners, and the Trololo guy before he was a meme.
In the first hour of the new year 1965, a holiday program with the participation of Pavel Rudakov and Sergei Lavrov, Larisa Mondrus, Tatiana Shmyga, Leonid Engibarov, Arkady Raikin, brothers Sazonov, Iosif Kobzon, Maya Kristalinskaya, Muslim Magomaev, vocal octet "Line" and pop orchestra conducted by Eddie Rosner, Yulia Pashkovskaya, Vladimir Shubarin, Eduard Khil, quartet "Accord" was broadcast. Among the guests are cosmonauts Gagarin, Belyaev and Leonov.
Production
Eddie Rosner's jazz orchestra surviving Stalin's camps to play this gig.
Director
Yuri Saakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eddie Rosner led a jazz band in Auschwitz, then Siberian gulags, before conducting this broadcast—his presence is its own resurrection story.
This aired January 1, 1965, four months before Leonov's actual spacewalk; his presence here is pre-emptive national triumph packaging.
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