Boris Khaykin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian conductor
Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1904
Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
Date of Death: 10-May-1978
Profession: conductor
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Boris Khaykin
- Boris Emmanuilovich Khaykin (Russian: ????? ???????????? ??????; Belarusian: ????? ??????????? ??????; 26 October [O.S.
- 13 October] 1904 – 10 May 1978) was a Russian Jewish conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972. Khaykin was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire (and nowadays the capital of Belarus).
- He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Nikolai Malko and Konstantin Saradzhev.
- He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-43 and the principal conductor at the Kirov Theatre in 1944-53, where he conducted the première of Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery on 3 November 1946.
- He moved to the Bolshoi Theatre in 1954.
- He died in Moscow.
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