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{{short description|Russian conductor (born 1949)}}
[[File:Valery Polyansky, May 2019-3.jpg|thumb|Valery Polyansky in May 2019]]
'''Valery Kuzmich Polyansky''' (Russian: ''Валерий Кузьмич Полянский''; born April 19, 1949, in [[Moscow]]) is a Russian [[orchestra]]l and [[choir|choral]] [[conducting|conductor]]. He is a [[professor]] of the [[Moscow Conservatory]], [[People's Artist of Russia]] (1996),<ref name=Ukaz1995>{{cite web|title=УКАЗ  ПРЕЗИДЕНТА РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ  О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства 1995 года|url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=76959&PSC=1&PT=1&Page=3|language=ru|page=3|access-date=28 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101001110/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=76959&PSC=1&PT=1&Page=3|archive-date=1 November 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> artistic director, chief conductor and founder of the [[State Symphony Capella of Russia]].

== Biography ==
Polyansky was born at April 19, 1949 in Moscow.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Полянский, Валерий Кузьмич |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/polyanskiy-valeriy-kuzmich |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=ТАСС |language=ru}}</ref>

He studied at the Academic Music College at the [[Moscow Conservatory|Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory]], graduating in 1967. Then he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.<ref name=":0" />

==Awards and honours==
*Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989)<ref name=":0" />
*[[State Prize of the Russian Federation]] in the field of literature and the arts in 1995<ref name="Ukaz1995" />
*People's Artist of Russia (1996)<ref name=":0" />
*[[Order of Honour (Russia)|Order of Honour]] (1999)<ref name=":0" />
*Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", III and IV degrees (2019, 2007)<ref name=":0" />
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Order of Saint Sergius of Radonezh|qid=Q3355529}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060512052630/http://www.studiomusica.net/eng/artisti/russcapel_s.htm Biography]
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[[Category:1949 births]]
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[[Category:State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates]]
[[Category:People's Artists of Russia]]
[[Category:21st-century Russian conductors (music)]]
[[Category:Russian male conductors (music)]]
[[Category:21st-century Russian male musicians]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory]]


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