Viktor Luferov

Who was Viktor Luferov?

Viktor Arkhipovich Luferov was a Russian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and performer. His songs were examples of the Russian music genre author song.

Victor Luferov was born May 20, 1945 in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and graduated from Gnessin State Musical College and Moscow Veterinary Academy. He worked as a laboratory assistant, billposter, janitor and fireman.

In the late 1960s, he founded and headed the music ensemble "Osenebri" which existed from 1967 to 1970. In February 1985, he founded the Theater of Song "Perekryostok", which nurtured and encouraged many emerging singers. It lasted until 2003 when it was closed for financial reasons. Luferov was a member of the creative association "First Circle" and the Association of Russian Bards. He published seven CDs, four of them in the author's seven-disc anthology titled Every hunter wants to know....

Viktor Luferov was interested in ethnographic folklore, which reverberated in his musical creations.