Alexey Arkhipovsky
Alexey Arkhipovsky is a modernday Russian balalaika player.
Alexey Arkhipovsky was born in 1967 in the town of Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. His father was passionate for music and played the garmon and the accordion. At the age of nine Arkhipovsky started to take balalaika lessons at a music school. In 1982, he entered the Gnessin State Musical College, the department of folk instruments, and studied the balalaika under Valery Zazhigin.
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