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Blanter received his education at the music institutes of Kursk and Moscow. Mainly a composer of songs, dances and light music of the theatre, Blanter worked at theatres in Moscow, Magnitogorsk and Gorky. His work is lyrical with a distinct Russian character. The song =Katyusha= (1938) was internationally popular, and it became the anti-Fascist hymn in Italy.
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