Kharitonov on Wikipedia
We are proud to announce that as a result of the recent joint efforts of an international team of enthusiasts, an article has been published on the international, English-language free encyclopedia “Wikipedia” with information about the life and creative work of singer Leonid Kharitonov.
A few days after the article was finished, on October 14, 2009, Wikipedia administrators found this story interesting enough to post it on the Wikipedia front page under in the “Did You Know …” section; (see screenshot.) In fact, of one of the moderators of this portal commented: “The article is very worthwhile, and you’ve all done some great work on it. His voice is really magnificent too!”.
We very much hope that this article will help promote not only the creative work of this artist, but Russian classical and folk music among educated audiences all over the world.
In this regard, Leonid Kharitonov expresses special thanks to the following sponsors of this article:
Linda O’Carroll
School Examiner
Country: England
Debbie Stuart
Web Developer
Country: USA
Also:
Mikhail Frunze
Head of the ensemble “Polyanochka”
Country: Japan
- for collecting information about the discography. And also expresses appreciation to the administrators of the portal “Wikipedia” for their cooperation.
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[...] We must pay tribute to these remarkable people because they are really seriously fascinated with the creative works of this famous Russian ensemble. In addition to the huge number of songs of the Alexandrov Ensemble in their repertoire, they, along with friends, have their own website, an Internet forum, where there is assembled a vast collection of audio CDs of the Ensemble, as well as interesting information about its main soloists. The organizer of this site is called “Gavva”, a name also taken in honor of one of the soloists of the Ensemble. On the site, of course, is a page dedicated to Leonid Kharitonov. It should be noted that they and their information greatly assisted us in building a complete discography of L. Kharitonov for that period. Their information about the discography of the Alexandrov Ensemble was also used in the English version of the global Internet encyclopedia “Wikipedia”, as described here. [...]
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