Nikolai Dobronravov

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| caption = Dobronravov in 2004

| native_name = {{nobold|Николай Добронравов}}

| birth_name = Nikolai Nikolayevich Dobronravov

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|11|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|09|16|1928|11|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| nationality = Russian

| native_name_lang = ru

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| spouse = Aleksandra Pakhmutova

| occupation = Poet, lyricist, schoolteacher

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Nikolai Nikolayevich Dobronravov ({{langx|ru|Николай Николаевич Добронравов}}; 22 November 1928 – 16 September 2023) was a Soviet and Russian poet and lyricist.{{cite web |author=Екатерина Чеснокова |url=https://ria.ru/20131122/978421952.html |title=Биография Николая Добронравова |lang=ru |website=ria.ru |publisher=РИА Новости |date=1 March 2020 |access-date=6 November 2021 |archive-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106000457/https://ria.ru/20131122/978421952.html}}. In Russian He collaborated with his wife Aleksandra Pakhmutova.{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.1tv.com/announce/6178 |title=«Николай Добронравов. Нам не жить друг без друга…». Документальный фильм |lang=ru |website=1tv.com |publisher=Первый канал |date=22 November 2008 |access-date=6 November 2021 |archive-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106000519/https://www.1tv.com/announce/6178}}

Dobronravov had two higher educations: in 1950 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School, in 1952 the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute named after Vladimir Potemkin.{{cite web |author=|url=https://viperson.ru/articles/po-zakonam-dramaturgii|title=По законам драматургии. Интервью с Николаем Добронравовым на «Радио России» |lang=ru |website=viperson.ru |publisher=Рейтинг элиты России |date=1 December 2007}}. In Russian He died in Moscow on 16 September 2023, at the age of 94.[https://www.eg.ru/showbusiness/3597082-skonchalsya-nikolay-dobronravov/ Скончался муж Александры Пахмутовой, поэт Николай Добронравов] {{in lang|ru}}

Selected compositions

And the Battle Is Going Again{{cite web|author=Andrei Vasyanin|date=29 October 2009|title=Рок Пахмутовой|url=http://www.rg.ru/2009/10/29/pahmutova.html|publisher=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|language=Russian|accessdate=12 September 2019}}
{{ill|Belovezhskaya Pushcha (song)|ru|Беловежская пуща}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26156/3044716/|title=15 самых известных песен Александры Пахмутовой|date=8 November 2013|publisher=Комсомольская правда|author=Елизавета Мельчук|accessdate=13 April 2015|archive-date=25 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825214353/http://www.kp.ru/daily/26156/3044716/}}
{{ill|Do You Know What Kind of Guy He Was|ru|Знаете, каким он парнем был}}
{{ill|Hope (Soviet song)|ru|Надежда (песня)}}
{{ill|How Young We Were|ru|Как молоды мы были}}
Nezhnost'[http://www.pakhmutova.ru/songs/obnim.shtml#Нежность Песня «Нежность» на сайте А. Н. Пахмутовой] (in Russian)
No Coward Plays Hockey!{{cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5aea00ee9a7947479e820362|title=Умер первый исполнитель песни «Трус не играет в хоккей»|work=РБК|date=2 May 2018|accessdate=3 May 2018 }}
{{ill|The Main Thing, Guys, is Not to Grow Old by Your Heart|ru|Главное, ребята, сердцем не стареть}}
{{ill|The Team of Our Youth|ru|Команда молодости нашей}}

Selected discography

1971 – Gagarin's Constellation (EP, Melodiya Д 00029947-8)
2013 – Nikolai Dobronravov. Best… (CD, Melodiya, MEL CD 60 02162)[https://www.records.su/album/40159 Николай Добронравов. Лучшее (2013)], records.su

Filmography

Sporting Honour (1951) as Platon Platonovich (uncredited)
The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (1953) as Seryozha
O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981) as the author of the script (the text and the lyrics)

Awards and honors

Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978)
Order of the Badge of Honour (1978)'{{Cite web |url=https://naukaprava.ru/catalog/1/127/700/51908?view=1 |title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 21 ноября 1978 года|access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-date=14 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714164757/https://naukaprava.ru/catalog/1/127/700/51908?view=1 }}
USSR State Prize (1982)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1984)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2003){{Cite web |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/20327 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 22 декабря 2003 года|access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-date=14 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114224645/http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/20327}}
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008){{Cite web |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/28333 |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 ноября 2008 года|access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-date=14 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114224757/http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/28333}}[http://www.vz.ru/news/2008/11/24/232062.html Николай Добронравов отмечен орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством»] In Russian