Musician Oleg Yakovlev, best known for his work in the Ivanushki International group, on the morning of June 29 in one of the capital's clinics. He was 47 years old. The musician's biography is a recurring story of departures: moving to Moscow from Irkutsk, leaving the theater troupe of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, leaving Ivanushki for a solo project. Each time he was looking for something more interesting. On the day of Oleg Yakovlev's death, the site publishes his biography with quotes from an interview with the musician.
Oleg Yakovlev was born on November 18, 1969 in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). His parents were there on a business trip. When Oleg was seven years old, the family moved to the Moscow region, later the Yakovlevs lived in Kazakhstan, then in Buryatia.
After working in Mongolia, my father was first sent to Podolsk, Moscow Region, then we moved to Kazakhstan, where we lived in Semipalatinsk, after that there was Novosibirsk, and when we wandered, we looked where, what and how, then somehow fate led us to Ulan-Ude. We were immediately given an apartment, I lived a little in a boarding school, while we somehow settled down. But I remember this city well, I know all these left-right banks, and I know everything, everything there. And my childhood was spent in the village of Selenginsk, Kabansky district, where I lived and studied until the eighth grade, about 15 years old. (From an interview with the My Ulan-Ude portal, 2013)
After graduating from school in Irkutsk, Oleg entered the local theater school and graduated with honors. But I decided not to stay here for a long time - the habit I learned from childhood to change places, and the desire to do something more than a small Siberian city could offer, had an effect.
From the memoirs of Oleg Yakovlev:
I studied at the Irkutsk Theater School as a puppet theater actor. But I didn't really like being behind the screen. And thank God that I graduated from college with honors. Otherwise, he would have to work in his specialty for three years. And I went to Moscow and entered GITIS. (From an interview with "MK-Sunday", 2006)
Oleg Yakovlev graduated from the workshop of Lyudmila Kasatkina. After GITIS, he entered the theater of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, whom he later called his second father. He was involved in many theater productions, among which -
"Lev Gurych Sinichkin", "Cossacks", "Twelfth Night". Despite good relations with the artistic director of the theater, Yakovlev left his troupe. As he said in an interview with the Muz-TV channel in 2010, the acting salary was not enough to live on, and he had to work as a janitor. But the real reason for his departure from the theater was not the need for money, but the same desire to do something more.
From the memoirs of Oleg Yakovlev:
I worked in the theater with Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, my teacher, a great man. And one day I got a role that did not suit me. I realized that for the next year and a half I will play the role of the third shadow at the back. I felt sorry for myself: my best years are leaving! (From an interview with MK-Sunday, 2006)
Even before joining the Ivanushki International group, Yakovlev starred in the video for the song "Doll" (1997) along with Kirill Andreev, Andrey Grigoriev-Apollonov and Igor Sorin. Fans of the group were surprised - who is this fourth? In 1998, when Sorin leaves the group, and the new Ivanushka takes his place, the fans will be indignant - where did he come from? - to demand "return Sorin" and endlessly compare him with the one whose place he took. One can only imagine how he experienced it - an actor who left the theater so as not to play "the role of the third shadow at the back."
From the memoirs of Oleg Yakovlev:
On TV, I saw an announcement that a new lead singer was required for the group. I had a cassette with two songs. I wrote them down when I worked in the theater with Alexei Rybnikov. I sent it by parcel post - and completely forgot about it. A week and a half later, Igor Matvienko calls me back and invites me to the studio. At that moment, Igor Sorin decided to leave the group and waited for someone to be found to replace him. And here is my cassette, which the director miraculously pulled out of a million others. For a whole month, Igor handed over cases to me, as they say, and then left. From an interview with "MK-Sunday", 2006)
After the release of the clips for the songs "Bullfinches" and "Poplar Fluff" everything returned to normal - Oleg was accepted. He spent 14 years with the group. As he himself later recalled, the split in the group was outlined much earlier - at the beginning of the 2000s, all three "Ivanushki" felt that the project had been exhausted. Through the efforts of producer Igor Matvienko, the group existed in this composition until 2012. And then Oleg Yakovlev made the final decision to leave.
From the memoirs of Oleg Yakovlev:
At that moment, a certain baggage has accumulated that I want to carry out. I felt the potential in myself that I can write songs, I can sing other music. Unfortunately, we are all not eternal, and there is some kind of time limit. Sometimes you just need to go somewhere to do something good and pleasant, including for yourself. Of course, I am embarrassed in front of the guys, but going solo was my dream, and in 2013 it came true. (From an interview with Follow Me, 2016)
The decision to leave the group was influenced by the success of the solo song "Dance with your eyes closed". According to some media reports, the singer was finally convinced to pursue a solo career by his common-law wife, journalist Alexandra Kutsevol, who starred in the video "Dance with your eyes closed." Since 2015, together with her, Yakovlev has hosted the VKontakte LIVE program on the TV channel
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Biography, life story of Yakovlev Oleg Zhamsaraevich
Yakovlev Oleg Zhamsaraevich is a Russian performer who was a member of the musical group Ivanushki International.
early years
Oleg is from Mongolia, namely from the city of Choibalsan. There he was born on November 18, 1969, at a time when his mother and father, a Buryat and an Uzbek by nationality, were seconded there. In this country he was destined to live for several years. The boy's family ended up in Russia when he graduated from the first grade.
Both in Angarsk and Irkutsk, where the Yakovlevs settled, the future popular singer attended the most ordinary schools. Oleg preferred humanitarian subjects. At the same time, he felt the need to comprehend the basics of musical art, so he became a regular at a specialized educational institution. In addition, young Yakovlev could be seen in the Palace of Pioneers, among the choir singers.
After graduating from school in Irkutsk, Oleg Yakovlev entered the local theater school. The training of the acting profession so fascinated the guy that he devoted almost all his time and energy to his studies. And here is the result - he graduated from the school with excellent marks, having received a red diploma as a keepsake of his years of study. The only negative point was the fact that Yakovlev strove to be in the public eye. He dreamed of being on stage, not backstage. However, the profession of a puppet theater actor allowed him to act only behind a screen, out of sight of the audience.
Conquest of the capital
Oleg Yakovlev decided not to stop there, and came to Moscow. In the famous GITIS, where he entered the first time, the young man was assigned to the workshop. Subsequently, the graduate was accepted into the theater, before the work of which he bowed and considered him his second dad. And the legendary actor himself treated his ward favorably.
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In addition to participating in theatrical productions, Oleg worked part-time at one of the radio stations, where he voiced commercials. The initial period of Yakovlev's life in the capital could not be called rosy and carefree. At one time, the artist even had to sweep the streets.
The arrival of Oleg Yakovlev in the group was preceded by shooting in the video, which was accompanied by the song "Doll". Direct members of the musical group also appeared in the frame.
It so happened that the group at the very beginning of 1998 was left without its soloist Igor Sorin. In incomplete composition, the guys held out until March, after which they reinforced it with Oleg Yakovlev. Fifteen years later, Oleg Zhamsaraevich parted ways with the group, as he intended to perform on his own.
Despite the fact that Oleg Yakovlev made a fairly successful career as a performer, his theatrical mentor did not forget about his pupil and declared his readiness to accept him back into the troupe at any time.
Hobbies
Oleg Yakovlev was involved in athletics. So seriously that he became the owner of the title of master of sports. He also liked to play billiards.
Departure from life
The untimely death of a famous artist shocked his fans. Oleg Yakovlev died on June 29, 2017. The reasons were called very different - from cirrhosis of the liver and problems with the lungs to AIDS. According to the last beloved woman of the singer, with whom he lived in a civil marriage, death came from cardiac arrest.
Alexandra Kutsevol asked the public not to speculate on this tragic topic, and warned journalists against the temptation to publish false information on the pages of their publications. In time, she will write a book about the man.
Oleg Yakovlev is a Russian singer and actor, former soloist of the Ivanushki International group.Childhood and youth
Oleg Zhamsaraevich Yakovlev was born on November 18, 1969 in the Mongolian city of Choibalsan. His father, an 18-year-old military man, an Uzbek by nationality, was sent there, where he met Lyudmila, a 40-year-old teacher of Russian language and literature from Buryatia. 
A short novel followed, without a sequel. When the military command found out that their subordinate would have a child, he was persuaded to marry, but Lyudmila did not want further relations and kicked him out. Oleg never saw his father - his mother was so angry with him that she gave her son the middle name of his grandfather. Because of this, fans often wondered why Oleg did not have an Uzbek, but a Buryat middle name.
Yakovlev has two older uterine sisters (one of them died in 2010).
Oleg's mother was a Buddhist, but Oleg himself leaned towards Orthodoxy.
When Yakovlev was 5 years old, his family returned to the USSR and settled in the workers' settlement of Selenginsk in the Buryat ASSR. Here the boy entered a music school and began to learn to play the piano. He had little free time: in addition to excellent studies at school and music lessons, he managed to do athletics (he even achieved the title of Candidate Master of Sports), sang in the school choir and the House of Pioneers, and constantly pleased his mother with diplomas and medals.
Soon the family moved to Angarsk, where Oleg graduated from high school, and then to Irkutsk. There Yakovlev graduated from the local theater school, having received a diploma in the specialty "actor of the puppet theater." The thirst for the stage prompted Oleg, who was sick of hiding behind the screen of a puppeteer for the rest of his life, to go to the capital, and he applied to the Shchukin School, the Moscow Art Theater School and GITIS. He was accepted into all three, but Oleg chose the last one. But the teachers of the Irkutsk school argued that "with such an appearance, he is the place behind the screen."
The teachers of the Irkutsk school argued that "with such an appearance, he belongs behind the screen."
In the first years of his life in a big city, Yakovlev had to work as a janitor in Staropimenovskiy Lane, and after successfully studying in the workshop of Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yakovlev joined the troupe of the theater Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, but for some time he did not quit working as a janitor and combined morning cleaning of the streets with rehearsals. Oleg had a very warm relationship with the head of the theater - the guy even called Armen Borisovich "the second father." In parallel, he worked on the radio.creative way
In 1990, Oleg played his first film role - however, Yakovlev was entrusted with only an episodic role in Hussein Erkenov's drama "One Hundred Days Before the Order ...". Oleg's mentor in the theater, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, also appeared in the film, as well as Vladimir Zamansky, Oleg Vasilkov, Elena Kondulainen. But for some reason he was not drawn to the theater or the cinema. He dreamed of being an artist of a different plan. In 1996, Oleg's mother died, never knowing that her son would soon become a superstar. 
At the end of 1997, Oleg saw an advertisement in the newspaper about the search for a soloist in the Ivanushki International group. While working in the theater, he recorded two songs: "White Rosehip" from the rock opera "Juno and Avos" and "Georgia". He sent demo recordings to Ivanushki producer Igor Matvienko and received an invitation to the group.
Soon he appeared in the new video "Ivanushki" - "Doll", but only briefly, as a backing vocalist. The main violin in the video was played by the old line-up: Andrey Grigoriev-Apollonov, Kirill Andreev and Igor Sorin, Oleg Yakovlev starred. A few months later, the band's soloist Igor Sorin left the group, and Yakovlev took his place.
Ivanushki Int - Doll: Oleg Yakovlev and Igor Sorin in one clip
The first months of work in the group were not easy - Oleg went through all the stages of hatred of Sorin's fans. The new soloist was called a "cheap fake", booed and insulted on a national basis during performances, and once even beaten after a concert. Oleg had a particularly hard time after Sorin died due to injuries after falling from a window.
The anger of the fans subsided a year after the start of Yakovlev's work in the team - calm and fruitful creative work began. Oleg participated in the recording of three albums (released in 1999, 2000 and 2002), starred in more than 15 video clips, and also appeared together with Renata Litvinova in the video for Alla Pugacheva's song "River Tram" (2001).
But Oleg's acting career was not so successful - on the artist's account there were only three roles that he performed in 2006-2007: as part of his team, the guy appeared in Oleg Gusev's New Year's musical film "First Ambulance" and Oleg Fomin's force majeure comedy " Election Day”, as well as in the role of himself in the TV series “Love is not show business” with Svetlana Svetikova in the title role.
In 2012, Yakovlev decided to try himself as a soloist, and by March of the following year he finally left the group. Oleg was replaced by Ukrainian musician Kirill Turichenko.
Oleg Yakovlev - Mania
After leaving Ivanushki, Yakovlev continued his solo career. From 2013 to 2017, he recorded about 15 songs and released several video clips: “Call me after 3 champagnes”, “The sea is blue”, “In Rapid”, “New Year”, “Mania”.
Personal life of Oleg Yakovlev
Oleg lived in a civil marriage with Alexandra Kutsevol. According to the confessions of the girl, she decided to win the heart of the artist as a child. Alexandra and Oleg met in St. Petersburg, where the girl studied at the Faculty of Journalism. 
Subsequently, Kutsevol, who convinced Yakovlev to become a solo artist, became her husband's manager. She gave him self-confidence, because earlier, as Oleg himself said, he felt like the smallest of the Ivanushki, and now he has become an independent singer, Oleg Yakovlev. “This is one of the greatest achievements in my life,” Yakovlev believed.
The couple had no children, but the artist had a niece Tatyana and two great-nephews - Mark and Garik. In one of the interviews, Oleg said that he had an illegitimate son in St. Petersburg, but the artist refused to discuss this issue in detail. He also did not deny his short romance with singer Irina Dubtsova.
Death
At the end of June 2017, Yakovlev ended up in intensive care with a diagnosis of "bilateral pneumonia caused by cirrhosis of the liver." On the 29th, at 7:05 am, the 47-year-old singer died of sudden cardiac arrest.The death of Oleg Yakovlev came as a complete surprise to his relatives and fans. 10 days before his death, he posted on his Instagram a touching photo in a doctor's coat, signing it: "Congratulations on the day of the medical worker to all my doctor friends, thanks to whom I am alive and well." The singer's fans were amazed by this tragic coincidence.
The last song of Oleg Yakovlev, released during his lifetime, "Jeans", hit the radio exactly two weeks before his death.
Farewell to Oleg took place in the Necropolis at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow, where his ashes were buried.
After the death of the singer, experts estimated his property at 200 million rubles. He had a spacious 4-room apartment in Moscow, which he bought in 2003, real estate in St. Petersburg and Montenegro, several cars.
The main contenders for the inheritance were Oleg's niece Tatyana and his civil wife. However, the name of Alexandra Kutsevol was not in the will. “There are only two heirs: me and another person, I won’t say his name,” Tatyana said. In March 2018, his friend, actor Roman Radov, joined the race for Yakovlev's legacy. It turns out that they bought one of Oleg's apartments together.
On June 29, Oleg Yakovlev's "Ivanushka" passed away
Oleg Yakovlev was born on November 18, 1969 in the capital of Mongolia. His mother taught Russian language and literature. It is known that she professed Buddhism, while her father was a Muslim, but Oleg converted to Orthodoxy.
Height, weight, age. Years of life of Oleg Yakovlev
Such a sad event was a real shock for thousands of fans of the group, millions of ordinary Russians, even quite far from what is happening in show business, are also ready to express condolences to friends and family of the musician.
Oleg Yakovlev is familiar to more than one generation: in the nineties and early 2000s, the group's songs were heard on radio waves, played back on cassette tape recorders and CDs that were common at that time. On the Internet today, fans of the group's work share their impressions received at the group's concerts, photographs, rare recordings and mourn Oleg.
Biography, personal life of Oleg Yakovlev
The artist performed as "Ivanushka" after Igor Sorin, who also became a legend in the Russian music scene, left the group. It happened in 1998, when the trio had already gained high momentum in popularity.
Fans from different cities of Russia keep vivid impressions in their memory. They recalled that when Yakovlev first appeared on stage, the public did not accept him: he left too much a mark in the souls of the audience, especially girls, Igor Sorin. And Oleg, as a beginner, was initially looked at for a long time, and he had to make a lot of efforts to be one of those who could no longer imagine their life without the songs of the trio.
Wife and children of Oleg Yakovlev
The musician was not married, but he had a civil wife. They did not have time to have children.
Perhaps Oleg was afraid that he would remain unaccepted, but, nevertheless, fate on the musical Olympus turned out to be favorable to him and the public not only noticed him, remembered him, but also fell in love with him.
It is known that the degree of rejection of Oleg at first was such that the most violent fans of "Ivanushki" even decided to beat the soloist at the dawn of his career under the supervision of producer Igor Matvienko. However, a year later, a real cult nickname “little white Ivanushka” took root in him.
And this “little white”, together with Andrey Grigoriev-Appolonov and Kirill Andreev, remained in the team until 2013. Subsequently, he decided to pursue an exclusively solo career and left the group. Fans remember his final video as part of a trio, which was recorded for the song "Dance with your eyes closed."
