:Valery Leontiev

Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev was born on 19 March 1949, in Ust-Usa, a village in what is now Russia's Komi Republic. In 1961 the family moved to the city Yuryevets in Ivanovo Oblast.

Leontiev's first performance on the big stage took place in 1971, during the Vorkuta regional competition "Song-71". There, Leontiev took second place with the song "Carnaval".

In 1980 Leontiev sang in various concerts, including the Moscow Variety Theatre, Oktyabrsky and Luzhniki. In 1981, the artist won the popularity prize at the prestigious music festival Yerevan-81. American journalists who attended the event noted the expressive manner of performing of the singer and compared him to Mick Jagger.{{cite web|url=http://www.vl-club.ru/press_text.php?filename=pressa/time.shtml|title=Tired? Nyet! Woodstock, Yerevan style |website=www.vl-club.ru|access-date=16 February 2019 |quote=Valeri Leontiev, 32, a booted, bolero-suited dancing rocker whose performance falls somewhere between those of Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov}} In 1982, Leontiev underwent a serious operation to remove a tumor from his throat, which jeopardized his further singing career.

In 1983, the singer moves to work in the Voroshilovgrad Philharmonic (now Luhansk Philharmonic) in the Ukrainian SSR. A year later, he was given a whole section in the author's evening "Holy love of music" by composer Raimond Pauls in Moscow.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59G_WVxxHA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/e59G_WVxxHA |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Валерий Леонтьев. Святая к музыке любовь, 1984 год|last=Valery Leontiev video channel|date=31 August 2017 |access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

In 1986 he performed in Chernobyl for the liquidators of the nuclear power plant accident. Alla Pugacheva also performed in Chernobyl.{{Cite web |date=2021-04-25 |title=Леонтьев получил дозу радиации в Чернобыле, Пугачева – в Зеленом Мысе |url=https://www.mk.ru/social/2021/04/25/leontev-poluchil-dozu-radiacii-v-chernobyle-pugacheva-v-zelenom-myse.html |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=www.mk.ru |language=ru}} In 1987, Leontyev already became an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

The beginning of the 90s was marked for Leontiev splash touring. His concerts were held in Germany, Israel, USA, Canada, India and other countries. In 1991 Leontiev was named the "Best Selling Soviet Artist" at the World Music Awards ceremony in Monte Carlo.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBeMkExaOnw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/fBeMkExaOnw |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Валерий Леонтьев - Птица в клетке (live) - Премия Монте-Карло 1991г.|last=Валерий Леонтьев|date=14 September 2016 |access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} In 1994 he performed on stage with Gina Lollobrigida{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdDkgGyfjQ|title=YouTube|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=17 December 2018}} in Saint-Petersburg concert hall "Oktyabrskiy", and in 1996 he was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. in March 1998 а nominal star of Valery Leontiev was opened on the Star Square in Moscow.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM1RolACaOw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/OM1RolACaOw |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Валерий Леонтьев Ты меня не забывай (Площадь звезд 1998)|last=izyumkka|date=18 October 2008 |access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} in 1999 Leontiev was awarded the "Living Legend Award" at the Russian national music award "Ovation".{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5YSkPF9qc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/KG5YSkPF9qc |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Валерий Леонтьев. Нoминaция: ЖИВАЯ ЛЕГЕНДА (1999г.) - Премия Овация|last=Валерий Леонтьев|date=13 March 2015 |access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

In 2011 he was a member of the jury of Crimea Music Fest.{{Cite web |title=В начале сентября стартует Crimea Music Fest |url=https://www.ok-magazine.ru/style/afisha/9070-v-nachale-sentyabrya-startuet-crimea-music-fest |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=Журнал OK! |language=ru-RU}}

• 1972 – First solo concert was in Vorkuta.{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/5205575/post269812360/|script-title=ru:Красный день календаря|date=10 April 2013|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1975 – Tour in USSR
• 1978 – Tour in Belarus
• 1980 – First concerts in Moscow
• 1981 – First solo concerts in Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall, Leningrad
• 1981 – First participation in the finale of the festival "Song of the Year "
• 1981 – participated in the competition – festival "Yerevan-81".
• 1982 – Tour in USSR
• 1983 – concert program, "I'm just a singer" (18 sold-out concerts in Leningrad)
• 1984 – concert program, "I run for life"
• 1985 – concert program, "Alone with all", which became a cult. Because queues for tickets on a few central streets of Leningrad stopped traffic. 10 concerts
• 1986 – concert program "Star story" Tour in Czechoslovakia.
• 1987 – concert program "Favorites", Tour in Bulgaria.
• 1988 June – 1989 November – rock opera "Giordano", more than 50 concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. Leontiev plays 3 main roles (out of 4!) – Giordano Bruno, a clown and Satan.
• 1988 – show "A matter of taste", tour in India
• 1988–1989 grand tour of cities of the USSR. For example, only one Novosibirsk in 1988 Leontiev gives a series of 27 recitals.{{cite web|access-date= 22 July 2015|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post166568353/|script-title=ru:Виниловое видео: "Маргарита" - 1989 год|trans-title=Vinyl video - "Margarita" - 1989 year|date=16 May 2011}} and in Almaty 33 solo concerts.
• 1990 – show "It seems to me that I have not lived" in the Olympic Stadium. Concerts in USA, India, Germany, Israel
• 1991 – Tour in India, Canada, USA, Germany
• 1992 – Tour in Israel, Canada, USA
• 1993 – show "Full Moon" – first super-show in Russia
• 1994 – show "Beauty and Casanova" – the first concert of pop star with a symphony orchestra in Russia. With the participation of the sex symbol of the 1960 Gina Lollobrigida.{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdDkgGyfjQ|title=Lollobrigida|publisher=YouTube|access-date=3 August 2015}} Tour in Israel.
• 1996 – show "On the road to Hollywood", touring in the US, Germany, Israel, Canada
• 1998 – Concert on the Star Square, a solo concert at the 50 th anniversary of the State of Israel (Tel Aviv, 14 May 1998), a tour in Germany, the United States and the United Arab Emirates
• 1999 super-show "Photographer of Dreams", a tour to Russia, Ukraine, Israel, United States, Canada, Germany, Baltic states
• 2001 super-show "Unnamed Planet", a tour to Russia, Ukraine, Baltic States, United States, Germany.
• 2002 – concert in Atlantic City, Moscow, Kyiv, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Minsk. Tour in Baltic states, Israel, Germany
• 2003 – concert tour of "The Sixth Life" (Russia, Ukraine, United States, Germany, Israel)
• 2004, concert in Los Angeles, 11–14 March – solo concerts in Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall.
• 2004, 12 March – The 300th solo concert in St. Petersburg.
• 2005 – concert program, "Valery Leontiev presents ..." (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus..)
• 2006–2008 – Tour to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Israel
• 2009–2010 an anniversary show of "I love you, miss you, I'm waiting". Tour in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, USA., Israel, Australia, concert in Sydney, Melbourne.
• 2011 - 21–22 October – concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (the show "The best ever!")
• 2012 – Tour with a concert program "The best ever!", dedicated to the 40th anniversary of creative activity (Russia, Ukraine, Сanada, USA);
• 2012 - 21–22 October – concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (show "By popular demand ...")
• 2013 – Tour in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
• 2014 – 19, 21, 22 March – The anniversary concerts in the Oktyabrskiy Big Concert Hall, St. Petersburg; 28 March – the anniversary concert in the State Kremlin Palace, concert in Geneva, Israel
• 2015 – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSt4mvujDeU Creative Evening of Valery Leontiev] in Sochi.{{cite web|url=http://new-beautyblog.com/new-wave-2015-alsou-and-other-guests-creative-evening-of-valery-leontiev|title="New wave 2015": Alsou and other guests creative evening of Valery Leontiev - beauty and health|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-date=4 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704135359/http://new-beautyblog.com/new-wave-2015-alsou-and-other-guests-creative-evening-of-valery-leontiev|url-status=dead}} Tour in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany.

• 1980 – First prize of the XVI International Festival "Golden Orpheus" in Bulgaria

• 1991 - "Best-selling soviet recording-artist of the year".

• 1980 - Singer of the year{{cite web|url=http://pesnyagoda.my1.ru/1980_82.html|title=1980-82|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1984 - Singer of the year{{cite web|url=http://pesnyagoda.my1.ru/1983_84.html|title=1983-84|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1985 - Singer of the year{{cite web|url=http://pesnyagoda.my1.ru/1985_87.html|title=1985-87|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1986 - Singer of the year
• 1996 - Best show of the year – "On the road to Hollywood"
• 1999 - Best show of the year – "Photographer of Dreams"
• 2001 - Best show of the year – "Nameless Planet"
• 2009 - Special prize "Legend"{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post124892252/|script-title=ru:Звуковая дорожка - 2009|date=18 April 2010|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 2014 - Special prize for a contribution to the development of Russian pop music{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvk2AZLoIDY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208065313/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvk2AZLoIDY |archive-date=2015-12-08 |url-status=dead|title=ZD Awards 2014|publisher=YouTube|access-date=23 July 2015}}

• 1998 - "Living Legend"{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTNiugVfMo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201003906/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTNiugVfMo |archive-date=2015-12-01 |url-status=dead|title=Ovation 1998|publisher=YouTube|access-date=22 July 2015}}

• 1997 - For song "One ticket" (Один билет)
• 1999 - For song "Everybody wants to love" (Каждый хочет любить){{cite web |url=http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6487973 |title= TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos|website=www.tubechop.com |access-date=23 July 2015 |archive-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003174823/http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6487973 |url-status=dead }}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}
• 2000 - For song "Augustine" (Августин){{cite web |url=http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6488117 |title= TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos|website=www.tubechop.com |access-date=23 July 2015 |archive-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003224634/http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6488117 |url-status=dead }}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}
• 2005 - Special prize "For contribution to the development of the Russian pop music"{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post165312898/|script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев - Ягодка|trans-title=Valery Leontiev - Berry|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 2008 - For song "Dove" (Голуби){{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post93019884/|script-title=ru:Золотой граммофон 2008 - В.Леонтьев|trans-title=Golden Gramophone 2008 - V.Leontiev|date=31 December 2008|access-date=22 July 2015}}

• 1997 – Singer of the year and prize for a great contribution to the development of Russian pop music.

• 2003 - Special prize "For achievements in the development of popular music"{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post87556728/ |script-title=ru:Шери - В.Леонтьев|date=16 October 2008}}

• 2015 - Special prize for "a unique contribution to the development of the Russian pop music".[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXskIMitECI Russian Music Awards 2015]
• 2019 - Special prize for "contribution to the development of national culture."{{Cite web|date=2019-12-06|title=Zivert и Димаш объявлены вехами времени|url=https://www.mk.ru/culture/2019/12/06/zivert-i-dimash-obyavleny-vekhami-vremeni.html|access-date=2020-08-02|website=MK News Russia|language=ru}}

• 1981 – Performer of the Year according to the contest, "Estrada-81" (Komsomolskaya Pravda){{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/parallax/post95512667/|script-title=ru:«КОМСОМОЛЬСКАЯ ПРАВДА» (05.02.1982) - "ЭСТРАДА-81"|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1983 – Singer of the Year according to a poll of readers of the newspaper "Smena" {{cite web|url=http://pesnyagoda.my1.ru/1983_84.html|title=ПЕСНЯ ГОДА. 1983-84|access-date=14 December 2016}}
• 1987 – The best song of the year "White Crow" on the basis of open voting ITAR-TASS in the USSR, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and others.
• 1988 – Singer of the Year on the basis of open voting ITAR-TASS{{cite web|url=http://pesnyagoda.my1.ru/1988_91.html|title= 1988-91|access-date=21 July 2015}}
• 1990 – Best song of the Year according to the All-Union charts TASS "Wicked Way" (Грешный путь)
• 1992 – Singer of the Year according to chart hit of the newspaper "Vechernyaya Moskva"
• 1992 – Song of the Year "At the gates of the Lord" (У ворот Господних) according to chart hit of the newspaper "Vechernyaya Moskva"
• 1998 – "Stopudoviy Hit" award from the radio station Hit FM for the song "Nine chrysanthemums" (Девять хризантем)
• 28 March 1998 – the inception of a star on the Star Square (Moscow).
• 1999 –"Stopudoviy Hit" award from the radio station Hit FM for the song "Everyone wants to love" (Каждый хочет любить)
• 2000 –"Stopudoviy Hit" award from the radio station Hit FM for the song "Augustine" (Августин)
• 2005 –Valery Leontiev listed in the Russian Encyclopedia.{{Cite web |url=http://old.intermedia.ru/news/178773 |title=Intermedia |access-date=2015-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608222601/http://old.intermedia.ru/news/178773 |archive-date=2015-06-08 |url-status=dead }}
• "God of the Ether 2009" in nomination "Radiorekord" (for the record number of rotations)

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{{external media|image1=[http://visualrian.ru/en/site/gallery/index/id/118154 Image] Valery Leontiev receives the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th class from Vladimir Putin, 2005

|width=200px|image2= [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/uk/1/13/Valery_Leontiev.jpg Image] President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko present Through Art - to Peace and Understanding award to Valery Leontiev in Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, 2009 {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AuGtn6chgw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/3AuGtn6chgw |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=ВАЛЕРИЙ ЛЕОНТЬЕВ НА СЛАВЯНСКОМ БАЗАРЕ|last=CTVBY|date=11 July 2009|access-date=14 December 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}}}

;Orders

• File:Orden for Service III.png Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3th class (21 February 2022) – for a great contribution to the development of national culture and art, many years of fruitful activity{{cite web | url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202202210045?index=2&rangeSize=1 | title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21.02.2022 № 70 ∙ Официальное опубликование правовых актов ∙ Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации }}
• File:Orden for Service IV.png Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class (19 March 2005) – for his great contribution to the development of music{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post80674979/|script-title=ru:Награждение орденом|trans-title=Order Award|date=18 July 2008}}[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/22151 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 19.03.2005 г. № 307] Kremlin.ru.
• File:Orden of Honour.png Order of Honor (2009) – for great contribution to the development of national music art and many years of creative activity {{cite news|url=http://news.rambler.ru/politics/7780581/|script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев получил очередной Орден Почета|trans-title=Valery Leontiev received another Order of Honour|date=8 October 2010|access-date=8 July 2015}}
• File:Orden of Friendship.png Order of Friendship (2014){{cite news|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2014/03/31/n_6050253.shtml|script-title=ru:Путин наградил Валерия Леонтьева орденом Дружбы|trans-title=Putin awarded Leontiev with the Order of Friendship|website=Gazeta.ru|date=31 March 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://deltaplan.vl-club.ru/video/-2014-/pozdravlenie-ot-prezidenta-rossii/|script-title=ru:Поздравление от Президента России|access-date=8 July 2015}}

;Titles

• People's Artist of Russia (9 March 1996)
• Merited Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1987)
• People's Artist of the Republic of Komi (2009){{cite news|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/464304|script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев стал народным артистом Коми|trans-title=Valery Leontiev became People's Artist of Komi|work=Izvestia|date=29 December 2009|access-date=8 July 2015}}
• Honorary Citizen of Sakha Republic (2014){{cite news|url=http://www.mk.ru/social/2014/05/05/valeriy-leontev-stal-pochetnyim-grazhdaninom-yakutii.html|script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев стал почетным гражданином Якутии|trans-title=Valery Leontiev became Honorary Citizen of Yakutiya|work=Moskovskij Komsomolets|date=5 May 2014|access-date=8 July 2015}}

;Medals

• Medal "For Faith and Good" (2010){{cite news|url=http://www.mk.ru/social/article/2010/05/26/497838-za-anshlagi-v-sibiri-leonteva-nagradili-medalyu.html|script-title=ru:За аншлаги в Сибири Леонтьева наградили медалью|language=ru|work=Moskovskij Komsomolets|date=26 May 2010|access-date=8 July 2015}}

;Awards

• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1985) – for the promotion of Soviet pop songs of youth and high performance skills
• Prize of the Moscow Government in the field of literature and the arts (1996) – for the super show "Full Moon" and "On the way to Hollywood"
• Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the field of literature and the arts (1999)
• Belarus president award Through Art - to Peace and Understanding presented by Alexander Lukashenko on 12 July 2009{{cite web|url=http://fest-sbv.by/en/uchastniki/349-valerij-leontev.html|title=Valery LEONTIEV|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-date=9 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509154453/http://fest-sbv.by/en/uchastniki/349-valerij-leontev.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://euroradio.fm/en/no-belarus-names-star-alley-vitsebsk|title=No Belarus names on Star Alley in Vitsebsk|date=19 June 2009 |access-date=2 July 2014 |publisher=Euroradio.FM}}

;Public awards

• Order of Mikhail Lomonosov (2007){{cite news|url=http://www.intermedia.ru/news/194756|script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев получил "Орден Ломоносова"|trans-title=Valery Leontiev received Order of Lomonosov|date=16 May 2007|access-date=8 July 2015}}
• Order "For the rebirth of Russia. 21st Century" (2003)

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See Valery Leontiev discography

All songs composed with Yuri Varum.

• 1985: Mongolia (Монголия)
• 1985: Flower Seller (Продавец цветов) (Remake released in 2014)
• 1986: Remember them Flying (Запомни их летящими)
• 1986: Game № 1 (Игра No. 1)
• 1986: Fires (Костры)
• 1987: Dog Show (Выставка собак)
• 1987: Familiar Fairy Tale (Знакомая сказка)
• 1987: Kukaracha (Кукарача)
• 1987: Skyscrapers (Небоскрёбы)
• 1987: I Don't Like (Я не люблю)
• 1988: I Went to the Microphone (Я вышел к микрофону)

• 1985: Birth Day (Рождение дня) (Lyrics co-written with Vladimir Kostrov)
• 1993: Touch (Прикоснись) (Lyrics co-written with Nikolai Denisov)

== Filmography ==

• 1981: In a strange feast (На чужом празднике)
• 1985: Do Not Marry, Girls (Не ходите, девки, замуж)
• 1985: Insurance agent (Страховой агент)
• 1992: Psychic (Экстрасенс)

• 1979: Crimean Dawns (Крымские зори)
• 1979: The film-concert "Olümpiaregati tähed \ Stars Olympic regatta" CT USSR and ETV
• 1984: I do not say goodbye to you ( Я с тобой не прощаюсь)
• 1984: Winds Baltic ETV
• 1985: Stained glass maker (Витражных дел мастер)
• 1986: Clown with autumn in the heart (Клоун с осенью в сердце)
• 1986: How to become a star (Как стать звездой)
• 1987: Valery Leontiev (film)
• 1990: Valery Leontiev. Let me go with you (Валерий Леонтьев. Дай мне уйти с тобой)
• 1991: Valery Leontiev Sings ( Поёт Валерий Леонтьев)
• 1991: Valery Leontiev. Made in India (Валерий Леонтьев. Made in India)
• 1997: Saturday evening with Valery Leontiev (Musical film RTR)
• 1997: Such different Valery Leontiev (Такой разный Валерий Леонтьев)
• 1997: Parade parade is Valery Leontiev (Парад парадов представляет Валерий Леонтьев) movie channel TV-6
• 2000: The reverse side of Valery Leontiev (Обратная сторона Валерия Леонтьева) movie channel ORT
• 2002: Cinderella (Musical film)
• 2003: Three tunes for the film Valery Leontiev (Три мелодии для фильма Валерия Леонтьева)
• 2009: Valery Leontiev in Komi (Валерий Леонтьев в Коми)
• 2009: I have not lived. Valery Leontiev (— Я ещё не жил. Валерий Леонтьев) movie channel ORT
• 2009: Valery Leontiev: Lost laughter (Валерий Леонтьев: Утерянный смех) movie channel Inter
• 2009: Benefit Valery Leontiev "The Book of Fate" (Бенефис Валерия Леонтьева "Книга судьбы") movie channel NTV
• 2012: Anniversary concert of Valery Leontiev "The best ever!" (Юбилейный концерт Валерия Леонтьева "Лучший навсегда!") concert channelORT
• 2012: "Hurtling time if a rider" ("Мчится время будто всадник") movie channel TV Tsentr

Valery Leontiev is married to bass guitarist Lyudmila Isakovich.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpMr-IuF2s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/fdpMr-IuF2s |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title="Спасательный круг" Валерий Леонтьев 1990 г|last=Tatyana Perezhogina|date=11 January 2015 |access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr_vBk50XrY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/Vr_vBk50XrY |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Валерий Леонтьев Белый снег 1990|last=izyumkka|date=19 October 2008|access-date=17 December 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} The couple have been together since 1972. However, officially their marriage was registered only in 1998. The artist's wife lives in Miami.

The Soviet Union never participated in the Eurovision Song Contest, as no Soviet broadcasters were members of the EBU. In 2009 Eduard Fomin, a former employee of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, revealed that in 1987 George Veselov, the Minister of Education for the Soviet Union, brought forward the idea of Soviet participation in the EBU and the Eurovision Song Contest due to the number of political reforms made by the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during the late 1980s. The idea was mainly a political one, with the thought that a win in the contest for the Soviet Union would impact on the relationships between the Soviet Union and the capitalist countries of the west. Valery Leontiev was suggested as a singer for the Soviet Union's first entry into the contest, but Veselov's ideas were not shared by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or by Gorbachev himself, believing it to be too radical a step to take, and so the Soviet Union never entered the contest before dissolving.{{cite web|url=http://nnm.ru/blogs/korova2007/neveroyatno_leontev_dolzhen_byl_predstavlyat_sssr_na_evrovidenie-87_2/|script-title=ru:Невероятно! Леонтьев должен был представлять СССР на Евровидение-87!|website=nnm.ru|language=ru|access-date=1 November 2016|archive-date=28 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528205339/http://nnm.ru/blogs/korova2007/neveroyatno_leontev_dolzhen_byl_predstavlyat_sssr_na_evrovidenie-87_2/|url-status=dead}}

• President Vladimir Putin: "You rightly recognized master of song genre, artist who reached the summits of Pop Olympus thanks to genuine talent, professionalism and hard work."{{cite news|url=http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/30594|script-title=ru:Президент поздравил народного артиста России Валерия Леонтьева с 55-летием|trans-title=President congratulated the People's Artist of Russia Valery Leontiev with 55th birthday|website=Kremlin.ru|date=19 March 2004}}{{cite news|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|url=http://www.kp.ru/online/news/10220/|script-title=ru:Владимир Путин поздравил Валерия Леонтьева с 55-летием|trans-title=Vladimir Putin congratulated Valery Leontiev with his 55th anniversary|date=19 March 2004|access-date=25 December 2014}}
• President Dmitry Medvedev: "Over the years, the bright stage career, you not only have gained a great love of fans, but also sets a high standard of music for the new generations of artists. The songs performed by you, always lead not only in the charts, but also in the hearts of an audience of millions."{{cite web|publisher=Government of Russia|url=http://government.ru/telegrams/11188/|script-title=ru:Валерию Леонтьеву, эстрадному певцу, народному артисту России|trans-title=To Valery Leontiev, the stage singer, People's Artist of Russia|date=19 March 2014|access-date=25 December 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://ria.ru/culture/20140319/1000167982.html|script-title=ru:Медведев поздравил певца Валерия Леонтьева с юбилеем|trans-title=Medvedev congratulates singer Valery Leontiev on his anniversary|date=19 March 2014}}
• President Alexander Lukashenko: "Great talent, unparalleled professional skills and constant creative search brought you a well-deserved fame and recognition around the world."{{cite news|url=http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/president/Lukashenko-pozdravil-narodnogo-artista-Rossii-VLeontjeva-s-65-letiem_i_663224.html|script-title=ru:Лукашенко поздравил народного артиста России Валерия Леонтьева с 65-летием|trans-title=Lukashenko congratulates People's Artist of Russia Valery Leontiev with 65th anniversary|date=22 March 2014|access-date=25 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322073551/http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/president/Lukashenko-pozdravil-narodnogo-artista-Rossii-VLeontjeva-s-65-letiem_i_663224.html|archive-date=22 March 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Politician Valentina Matviyenko: "You have created a stage persona which has never been on the stage and I am sure that nobody will never repeat, and you follow this image."{{Cite web |url=http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6514441 |title=TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225125/http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6514441 |url-status=dead }}
• Singer Muslim Magomayev: "Name Valery Leontiev enough just to name – and do not have any colorful definitions! Everything is clear! Living Classic of our stage."{{cite web |url=http://magomaev.info/book/36.htm |title=Муслим Магомаев - "Любовь моя - мелодия" |website=magomaev.info |access-date=25 December 2014}}
• Singer Joseph Kobzon: "Tragically, we have a unit of this magnitude stars – Pugacheva, Leontiev ... Those people who for many years retain their creative person and love of the public."{{cite news|url=http://news.mail.ru/society/2442817/|script-title=ru:Казанове российской эстрады Валерию Леонтьеву исполняется 60 лет|date=19 March 2009|access-date=25 December 2014|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707080003/https://news.mail.ru/society/2442817/|url-status=dead}}

• 3 storey apartment in Kolokolnikov Lane, Meshchansky District, Moscow. Purchased in 1993.{{cite news|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/23605/46213/|author=Maria Remizova|script-title=ru:У Валерия Леонтьева - три этажа, а Дмитрий Дюжев купил «однушку»|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|date=1 November 2005}}
• Villa in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA. Purchased in 1996{{cite news|url=http://www.tele.ru/stars/star-story/bosonogiy-malchik-i-drugie-zvezdy-kotorye-zhivut-v-ssha-a-poyut-v-rossii/|author=ТЕЛЕНЕДЕЛЯ|script-title=ru:«Босоногий мальчик» и другие звезды, которые живут в США, а поют в России|work=tele.ru|date=23 November 2018}}
• Apartment on Collins Avenue, Miami, FL, USA. Purchased in 2002.{{cite news|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26190/3078331/|author=Maria Remizova|script-title=ru:У Юлии Бордовских две квартиры в Майами, а у Валерия Леонтьева уже четыре!|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|date=6 February 2002}}
• Apartment in Hallandale Beach, Florida, USA. Purchased in 2005
• Villa in Alicante, Spain (neighbors – Mikhail Gorbachev, Victoria Beckham). Purchased in 2008{{cite news|author=Maria Remizova|newspaper=Kp.ru - |script-title=ru:Валерий Леонтьев купил за 4 миллиона евро виллу в Испании|trans-title=Valery Leontiev bought a villa in Spain for 4 million Euro|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/24086/318709/|date=23 April 2008|access-date=21 June 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://realty.newsru.com/article/23apr2008/leon|script-title=ru:Певец Леонтьев заработает на аренде дома в Испании по соседству с виллой Горбачева|date=23 April 2008|access-date=29 June 2015}}

• On account of Valery Leontiev there is even a duet with Vladimir Putin: in August 2006 in Sochi, a concert for the heads of the CIS, which Leontiev worked for a program of four songs. In the final speech, when the artist was called for an encore, he decided to perform the song "Hope." Suddenly, he was joined by Vladimir Putin, at that time president of Russia – Leontiev handed him a microphone. Star duo snatched the applause, as the leaders of CIS countries, as well as fellow artists.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmusic.ru/news_3_3119.htm|script-title=ru:Путин спел дуэтом с Валерием Леонтьевым|language=ru |website=Newsmusic.ru|date=18 August 2006|access-date=10 November 2013}}
• Leontiev performing the hit "Margarita" in the presence of the President of Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/deltaplan-club/post100374287/|script-title=ru:Маргарита - Валерий Леонтьев|trans-title=Margarita - Valery Leontiev|date=12 April 2009 |access-date=9 January 2016}}
• Nu, pogodi! Episode 16 – Valery Leontiev song Green Light was played by the Wolf when he was caught by Baba Yaga, on the magical guitar. The Wolf does escape however, but lands on the water.

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