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Ethnic Russian music includes numerous varieties of folk, popular and classical traditions. Ethnic Russians come especially associated by using authoritative styles of ballet and opera, of which composers like Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky and the members of The Mighty Handful are among the virtually all easily-known. Late in the 19th century, elements of Russian folk music (like a balalaika) began to be utilized around orchestras, beginning with of these led by Vassily Andreyev. In the 20th century, operatic singers like Fyodor Shalyapin were popular in the first couple of decades. In a period of the Soviet era, music in the USSR was tightly restricted. Singing ethnomusicologists such as Vyacheslav Shchurov gained some celebrity, when did bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and rock bands like Pojuschie Gitary. Among a virtually all popular singers of Russian ethnic music in the modern era come Zhanna Bichevskaya and the rock-oriented Boris Grebenshikov, formerly of folk-rock band Aquarium.
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