Dmitri Pokrovsky

{{Short description|Russian musician (1944–1996)}}

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Dmitri Viktorovich Pokrovsky ({{langx|ru|Дмитрий Викторович Покровский}}, 3 May 1944 – 29 June 1996){{Cite web| last = Kozinn | first = Allan | title = Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Singer And Russian Ethnomusicologist | newspaper = The New York Times | date = July 3, 1996 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/arts/dmitri-pokrovsky-52-singer-and-russian-ethnomusicologist.html}} was a Russian folk music researcher and musician, best known for his efforts to rediscover authentic, and often near extinct rural musical traditions, from many different regions of Russia, and re-enacting them with the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=978-0-85112-939-6|page=1973}}