Aizenshpis is gay. Talented producer (Yuri Aizenshpis)

The foreign word “producer,” unknown to Soviet citizens, was first introduced into the lexicon by Yuri Aizenshpis. Before him, people involved in organizing concert activities were usually called administrators, impresarios or concert directors. Aizenshpis’s innovation affected not only the formal name, but the very essence of the activity. In addition to organizing tours and solving purely everyday issues while traveling, he invested his own money in the artist, in his advertising and promotion, and in return, by “promoting” him, he made a profit.

Yuri Aizenshpis was a businessman to the core and raised the domestic music industry to a new level. The pioneer of domestic show business was barely 20 years old when he tried to put into practice his ideas about the profession of producer. He took the Moscow rock band Sokol under his wing. It was 1965. In the country of the Soviets, performers like Valery Obodzinsky were considered the extreme manifestation of the musical avant-garde. Officially recognized music was presented by the immortal Joseph Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina and someone else like that.

The era of domestic vocal-instrumental ensembles had not yet begun, and Yuri Aizenshpis had already begun to use the phrase “rock band,” which was absolutely incomprehensible to the average Soviet ear, taken from the Western music industry. The first producer of the Soviet Union himself became acquainted with modern music from vinyl records, which he successfully sold.

His parents, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, could not imagine that their son would become an asocial element in the USSR from a young age and spend 17 long years in prison. His father is a Jew with Spanish roots, whose ancestors moved to Poland. In 1939, with the flow of Polish refugees fleeing the advance of Nazi troops, he found himself in his new homeland, which he had to defend with a rifle in his hands. My mother is from Belarus and spent 3 years as a partisan in the forests.

Yuri Aizenshpis was born in 1945 in Chelyabinsk. The parents moved to the capital, where they lived very modestly - in an ordinary barracks. Only in 1961 did they move to a Khrushchevka building near the Sokol metro station. Aizenshpis went to study at the Moscow Economic and Statistical Institute. He had to study economics not only in the classrooms of a higher educational institution, but also on the street, where he “pushed” Beatles and Rolling Stones discs to rock music connoisseurs.

The black marketeer himself turned into a frantic music lover, having collected a rare collection of albums by Western rock musicians. After the records came the turn of fashionable imported clothes, scarce furs and musical equipment. Gradually, Aizenshpis had a network of clients and suppliers in his hands. He established connections with foreigners. His acquaintances included ambassadors of foreign countries and their children. As a student, he was no longer in poverty as in childhood. Everywhere and always since then, he has managed to provide himself with a standard of living significantly above the average. Then he tried to make money by producing a musical group, but he had to continue his first experience almost 2 decades later.

After graduating from university, Yuri Aizenshpis got a job as an economist at the Central Statistical Office. The work didn't bother him much. The underground business has reached gigantic proportions. Yuri Aizenshpis switched to foreign currency and gold. The turnover of illegal transactions was almost equal to the budget of the institution where he was an employee. Numerous agents of an ordinary economist bought foreign currency from Moscow taxi drivers and prostitutes. In those days, gold bars were already officially traded by Vneshtorgbank.

The ubiquitous KGB dealt with currency traders in the USSR. In 1970, Aizenshpis was quite expectedly arrested. During a search of his apartment, they found $17 thousand and 10 thousand “wooden” rubles - gigantic sums of money at that time. The underground millionaire was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Being a “huckster” according to the thieves’ classification, Aizenshpis, nevertheless, did not live in poverty in the “zone”. Records and currency replaced tea, cigarettes and alcohol. The born businessman did not waste time in the colony. After 7 years he will be released on parole. He will return to Moscow, but literally in a few weeks he will again find himself in a pre-trial detention center and still under the same “currency” article. This time, during the search, $50 thousand will be found, but all the bills will turn out to be counterfeit.

Again 10 years of captivity. In April 1988, having gone beyond the “ban”, Yuri Aizenshpis will find himself in a completely new world. He saw that he was very unlucky in life. He was given two convictions for nothing. In the future he will achieve his full acquittal. It will not be possible to return only the unique vinyl collection. The speculation pursued in a socialist state will receive a different interpretation - ordinary business, a market economy. Aizenshpis had no interest in resuming trading operations with currency or other goods. I am no longer the same age, and my health has been seriously damaged by prison. He acquired a bunch of chronic diseases - diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver. In prison he had to suffer from two types of hepatitis.

Producer Yuri Aizenshpis

Yuri Aizenshpis decided to take music seriously. Initially, the recidivist was sheltered by the creative association “Gallery”, which worked under the wing of the city committee of the Komsomol. Yuri Aizenshpis has always been distinguished by his high sociability and incredible ability to adapt in any conditions. This helped him in his work. Ideological Komsomol members felt the taste of money and were not averse to making extra money on young talents. Aizenshpis quickly got up to speed in the music business and soon abandoned patronage, starting to work for himself.

His first production project was the Kino group and its leader. It was then that he first called himself a producer. In 1990, Yuri Aizenshpis was the first in the USSR to fully finance the release of the “Black Album” of the Kino group with his own funds. Before him, no one had risked doing this. After Tsoi, he worked with the rock groups “Technology”, “Moral Code” and “Dynamite”. Following the groups came the turn of solo performers - Vlad Stashevsky, Katya Lel, Dima Bilan and several others of a smaller caliber.

To finance Stashevsky’s project, Aizenshpis attracted Alexander Makushenko, who was well known to him from years of imprisonment, whom he knew as Sasha Tsygan. Music in the hands of a businessman turned out to be an attractive tool for making big money. In 2001, Aizenshpis became the general director of the entire Media Star enterprise. Everything would have been fine, but I was very worried about my health. Yuri Aizenshpis was forced to adhere to a constant diet, regularly see doctors and constantly swallow a bunch of pills.

Yuri Aizenshpis - cause of death

In September 2005, he began to experience stomach bleeding. A perforated ulcer will be added to the huge bouquet of diseases. Doctors successfully eliminate the new problem, but the next day the patient dies from myocardial infarction. The first time he had a heart attack immediately after his second release from the “zone.” He will be buried at the Domodedovo cemetery in the suburbs of Moscow.

The most successful projects of producer Aizenshpis are considered to be the first and the last. Viktor Tsoi is still considered a cult singer among rock fans, and Dmitry Bilan is the only Russian pop singer to win the most prestigious victory at Eurovision. The producer will not be able to wait for the singer’s success, which will come 2 days after his death.

After the death of the producer, Dima Bilan will become the target of an attack for Aizenshpis’s common-law wife, Elena Kovrigina, who tried in court to justify her right to the performer’s name brand, which, as she believed, completely belonged to her common-law husband and argued that the “star” had not fulfilled some terms of the contract. She failed to defend her innocence. Dima Bilan fell into the hands of another producer, Yana Rutkovskaya.

11 years after the funeral of Yuri Aizenshpis, his name will again appear in criminal reports. The police will arrest the producer's son Mikhail, in whose belongings one and a half grams of cocaine will be found. Despite his demonstrated penchant for crime, the son did not completely follow in his father’s footsteps. Music was not for him.

There was such a famous music producer who passed away not so long ago, but that’s not the point. Even if you have not heard of him, then perhaps as the conversation continues you will be interested in details about everyday life in the colonies of the Soviet Union.

The famous music producer Yuri Aizenshpis was convicted twice in Soviet times for currency transactions. In total, he served 17 years. But Aizenshpis realized his talent as a manager in the zone. On his first trip, he set up production at the construction of KrAZ, on the second, he managed a sawmill. Aizenshpis recalled that the smart man lived well even in the zone; his income was measured in thousands of rubles.

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Yuri Aizenshpis became a music producer at the age of 19. Then he studied to become an economist and worked at the Central Statistical Office. He combined music and service with currency transactions. In 1970, at the age of 25, he was imprisoned for the first time for 10 years for currency speculation. But he was released on parole for exemplary work in 1977. A year later he was convicted again under the same article and was released in 1988. In the book “From a black marketeer to a producer. Business People in the USSR,” he tells how his talent helped him become a manager in the colonies.

For five months in the Krasnoyarsk zone, I never touched a shovel or pickaxe. They could not work at a construction site either “for authority” or for money. I took more second. The parents promptly sent the starting advance amount, and then the foreman’s services were paid from “earned money.” For example, when you fulfill the plan norm, the foreman gives you orders for 160 rubles. If you work too hard to over-fulfill, for example, 200 rubles, then 80 goes to the zone for “wait”, and 120 goes to your personal account. After taxes, 100 remain. Of these, 50 go to you, and 50 to the foreman. No more than 10% of all prisoners participated in such a conspiracy, since the construction of the facility was also required. Not everyone knew how to find “paths” to the hillock, and even fewer could competently implement a scheme for transferring money home and back. Well, some work addicts simply worked like elephants and went home rich people. Just before I arrived in the zone, one such hard worker was released from there, having earned 5,000 rubles in two years!

This turned out to be an unexpected discovery: you can earn good money through forced labor. Not as significant as in foreign exchange transactions, but more than in research institutes. At the same time, only a maximum of 15 rubles per month was allowed to be spent in a kiosk shop: a basic amount of 9 rubles + 4 production rubles (if you meet the production norm) + 2 incentives, if you worked well and did not disturb the order. In general, it was sparse, and only two food parcels of 5 kg per year were allowed. However, the conditions and opportunities for quality food here turned out to be much better. All you had to do was apply a little intelligence and imagination, and correctly take into account local specifics.

And the specific thing was that when the cordon was removed, anyone could enter the territory of the facility under construction. And hide vodka, money, food - whatever you want - in one of the many secluded places! All you had to do was have money, not on a card, but in real money. The worked out financial scheme was as follows: money was transferred from the card to Moscow to my parents, then sent by reverse telegraphic transfer to a free resident of Krasnoyarsk, and then forwarded to me. As a rule, civilians who worked next to us. And although there were about 50 supervisors snooping around the entire construction site, although freemen were strictly forbidden to have contact with prisoners, it was not possible to detect numerous violations. And why, if it benefits everyone?

The zone built a large Komsomol shock construction project - KrAZ, Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant. In the meantime, my career also took off: from a workshop worker, I rose to become an assistant in the plant management. An engineering position whose main functions are accounting and labor organization. Every day I kept track of the payroll, I knew exactly who was in which detachment and in which brigade, what term they received and for what they received it. At the request of the superiors, I instantly gave out information about where this or that prisoner was currently located - in an isolation ward, a hospital, or at work. If at work, then where exactly, what he does, what are his performance indicators. My statistical education has been of great use to me!

I was given a separate office, which I soon hung with graphs of operational reports, numbers of work output, labor productivity and other numerical characteristics. And I did this job better than many experienced business executives, of whom there were also plenty in the zone: both in the noisy business of the Ocean store and in the illegal export of diamonds to Israel. Although the salary was the same as that of an ordinary Soviet engineer - 120 rubles.

A high position also entailed certain life benefits, which in any zone are given to only a few of the most significant prisoners in the structure. I had lunch separately, which was much tastier and more nutritious than the others, sometimes I cooked it myself in the office on a small electric stove. He even organized feasts! My menu always included scarce products. Through the civilian staff, I was actively in contact with the will, and sometimes even asked the senior warden to bring vodka and sausages. The contractors who were subordinate to me could take a person from one part of the zone to another, from residential to industrial. And not alone, but with a load. Do you understand how you can benefit from this?

The zone's leadership did not pay attention to the petty abuses of the contractors, and their privileged position was easily explained. This includes construction, repairs, and crafts—prison crafts. Checkers and chess, pens, knives, lighters - the need for cunning inventions. Both for your home, and as a gift to a big person, maybe even to sell at the market. Consumer goods are a completely separate topic in the life of the zone, one of the sources of money and concessions, and if you are handy, you will not be lost. Of course, only 15-20 people are in a privileged position, no more. Their jobs are closed at the expense of the main production, and they live like chocolate - no checks, no regime.

When I sat down for the second time, the word “colony” had already become slang; correctly this institution should have been called “ITU.” The ITU was headed by a chief and a number of his deputies: for operational work, political and educational, for production and for general issues. Each deputy had departments, and the deputy for production was also the director of the plant where the prisoners worked. The plant produced furniture and garden houses, but the main product range was housing for Soviet televisions.

More than 30 people were crammed into the large office of the head of the correctional facility - heads of all detachments, heads of various services. There, distribution took place among detachments and workshops. They called me on the carpet. I said that I was an engineer-economist by training and had serious work experience. He did not hide his ambitions and readiness for the most responsible positions. In general, I inspired such trust that I was immediately appointed head of the assembly shop.

This is how I, a simple Soviet prisoner, found myself in a leadership position. My responsibilities primarily included implementing the plan, visiting operational operations, and working closely with the administration and with convicts. We had to put pressure on the Bugors, who, by local standards, are very serious comrades. I had to argue with the administration, proving that I was right. I had to work a lot.

The quality of leadership is determined not so much by knowledge and education, but by experience and a special mindset and character. I not only had an understanding of statistics, accounting, and economic assessment of the situation, but also possessed the qualities of a leader, enviable energy and activity. I was interested in psychology and philosophy and successfully applied my knowledge in practice. Whether a tramp, a criminal, an authority figure or a hard worker, I found a common language with everyone and had good relationships. And, of course, the life and prison experience that I have already gained. At the same time, I always preferred to remain myself and do things according to my own understanding. So, for example, during all the years in captivity I did not make a single tattoo, considering it below my aesthetic principles.

My new status is the head of the assembly shop, my employees are 300 people. Our workshop received numerous wooden parts, covers, bottoms, and reflectors. They had to be processed, adjusted, glued and pre-polished before final varnishing, which was no longer carried out by us. Clean the shirt. If there is a crack, open it with a scalpel, push the emulsion in there and “fry” it with an iron. Almost a surgical operation. Each prisoner had to give out 26 such boxes every day. And then the Quality Control Department begins to meticulously inspect them, outline all sorts of shortcomings and defects with white chalk, and sometimes reject up to half of the products.

The main and immediate task I saw was clearing the area from the rubble of defective products. 70% of the usable space was occupied by tall catacombs from floor to ceiling. Narrow corridors pierced them like ant passages, with the last rows often containing large “pockets”. There, the prisoners organized secluded rookeries, where they did God knows what. And I attacked the marriage with a powerful attack, and its number began to decrease. But all this horror accumulated over the years, passed from one boss to another along the balance sheet, and the numbers no longer corresponded to reality.

The director of the enterprise could not be happier and encouraged me in every possible way. And if earlier the workshop had difficulty fulfilling the daily plan, now other important nomenclature indicators that characterize economic activity have begun to increase: efficiency, productivity.

I also minimized theft, but in the zone they steal everywhere and everything. They steal what is needed and what is not needed, what is bad and what is good. It seems like there are fences and castles all around, thorns and security - don’t believe your eyes! Logs and plywood, boards and nails, fine and coarse sandpaper - if it can be dragged, it will be dragged. Go to the village, which is in the zone, and there you will certainly find a lot of everything stolen from behind bars. This has never happened to me, complete control over the storekeepers, no one will steal or take anything away. At night everything was locked with massive bolts, so even a mouse couldn’t get through.

All visiting inspections marked my workshop against the background of all others. Everything was flying for me, as if on a conveyor belt, no one stood idle, no one was idle, everything was ticking like a clock. I received guests and inspectors in my personal office, with magnificent mahogany veneer furniture, treated them to good tea and delicious sweets, and for a while the sense of who was who was lost.

The workers in the assembly shop constantly felt my care; I was practically their own father. It manifested itself not only in beautiful locker rooms, cozy showers and simply in clean production. I encouraged and supported their diligence and ingenuity in every possible way: if they met the production quota, they got the opportunity to shop for an additional 3-4 rubles in a stall, if they exceeded the plan, I signed lists for additional tea. Up to 5 packs per month. He tried to ensure that they wore high-quality workwear; almost all working workers wore a shiny melustin uniform.

Of course, high status brought me certain dividends. Good food, free movement from the work area to the living area and back, the opportunity not to attend roll calls, unlimited contacts with civilians. I was granted visits of maximum duration twice a year for three days.

Then I began to step on the sawdust, made several improvement proposals, and even found buyers to whom I sent a hundred or even more wagons of compressed sawdust. The total economic effect of my innovations amounted to several million rubles, that is, even if I caused damage to the country with my speculation, now I have more than covered it.

I completely cleared the area of ​​waste, and the village began to experience a shortage of firewood. After all, previously a truckload of wood was taken out of the zone gates for just a bottle of vodka! They even got angry with me, but I continued to do my job. For the implementation of rationalization proposals, I received a certificate from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Mordovia and a number of patents. And if I had not been a prisoner, they would have nominated me for the title of Honored Innovator of the RSFSR. But I still received a very large monetary reward—10,000 rubles—after leaving the zone. And in the wild it was very useful to me.

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Popular artist Dima Bilan Now he has no right to go on stage and release albums. On March 29, at a press conference at RIA Novosti, she spoke about this Elena Kovrigina, producer's widow Yuri Aizenshpis.

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At the beginning of the press conference, Elena Kovrigina announced that on the tenth day after the death of Yuri Aizenshpis, she turned to lawyer Pavel Astakhov with a request to prepare all the documents so that the producer’s son Misha Aizenshpis would take over the right of inheritance. Kovrigina was worried that her son’s rights would not be infringed.

The fact is that at the beginning of his creative activity, Victor Belan (Dima Bilan) signed a contract with producer Yuri Aizenshpis that the brand, image and repertoire of the artist “Dima Bilan” belonged to Aizenshpis’ production center “StarPro”. The contract also stated that if Dima Bilan breaks off relations with StarPro, then he is ineligible to compete for the next ten years. According to the Civil Code, after the death of Yuri Aizenshpis, the StarPro company became the property of the son of producer Misha Aizenshpis.

Pavel Astakhov showed documents to journalists, confirming that the rights to the brand, image, and repertoire of Dima Bilan by right of direct inheritance belong to 15-year-old Misha Aizenshpis. Until the child reaches adulthood, his mother and guardian Elena Kovrigina will manage the son’s property.

According to Elena Kovrigina, she is not interested in show business and she does not intend to become involved with the artist Dima Bilan. She signed agreement with the Soyuzconcert company, to which the rights associated with the Dima Bilan project are transferred. Representatives of the Soyuzconcert company present at the press conference, in turn, stated that it is theoretically possible that they will transfer the Dima Bilan project to some Western company. Let us recall that a dispute over the rights to use the singer’s stage name flared up in September 2005 after the death of Aizenshpis. “Then Bilan disappeared from our field of vision and showed up with new owners. He left the company, believing that the death of Aizenshpis frees him from all contracts. But he does not have the right to simply turn around and leave, because we are talking about legally unresolved issues. This is business and nothing more,” Elena Kovrigina said at a press conference. In the fall of 2005, Elena Kovrigina negotiated with Dima Bilan’s new producer, Yana Rudkovskaya. The talk was about two million dollars, which, according to Kovrigina, Yuri Aizenshpis invested in Dima Bilan and the equipment of his studio, Elena offered to reimburse the StarPro center for these costs. But then the negotiations suddenly stopped. There were no payments from Dima Bilan. The singer continued to perform, but did not answer phone calls, and only once came to Kovrigina’s house. and brought a pack of chips and a can of Coca-Cola for Misha. Elena also said that Dima Bilan is still registered in the apartment that belonged to Yuri Aizenshpis.

By the way, Dima Bilan’s performance at the Eurovision Song Contest, like any other performances of the singer after the death of Aizenshpis, can also be interpreted as a violation of the law.

Elena Kovrigina explained her almost two-year silence by saying that during negotiations with a representative of the new producers and Dima Bilan, she promised not to make a fuss about this issue. And then she was busy preparing all the necessary documents. Neither Elena Kovrigina nor Pavel Astakhov said whether penalties would be applied to Dima Bilan for non-compliance with contracts.

Interestingly, the real name of Yuri’s father is Shmul. The NKVD officer, filling out the passport, got it wrong. This is how Shmil Aizenshpis turned out. The man went through the Second World War and visited Berlin. However, the soldier was never wounded. Yuri Shmilevich’s mother’s biography is no less interesting. Maria Mikhailovna was born in Belarus.

After the death of her parents, she was given over to distant relatives to raise. Because of the outbreak of the war, I did not have time to obtain a diploma in journalism. Maria Mikhailovna joined the partisan detachment and almost fell into the hands of the Germans several times. In the post-war years she was awarded medals and orders.

Yuri's parents met at the Belorussky railway station in 1944. After the end of the war, Maria Mikhailovna and Shmil Moiseevich ended up in the Main Directorate of Airfield Construction. At that time, the Aizenshpis family lived well. In their house there was a TV and a gramophone with a large collection of records.

Until 1961, the producer's family lived in a wooden barracks, but then moved to an apartment located in the Sokol district of Moscow. Yuri Shmilevich was a sporty child and attended a sports school. The producer was a fan of handball, volleyball and athletics. I had to retire from professional sports due to a leg injury.

Yuri took his first steps as an administrator in his youth. In 1965, the man began collaborating with the rock group Sokol. Despite the obvious craving for show business, Aizenshpis received an economic education at the Moscow Economic and Statistical Institute.

Music and production

Yuri Shmilevich's career as a producer began while still studying at the institute. Collaboration with a rock band did not help achieve the desired heights. Then Aizenshpis went to prison for conducting illegal currency transactions. After leaving prison, the producer found himself in the perestroika world, which became the starting point for developing a career in show business.

Meeting Alexander Lipnitsky allowed Aizenshpis to become the director of the Interchance festival. Gradually, the man studied the basics of behind-the-scenes life, identified methods of influencing musicians, and later moved on to producing.

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“Promoting an artist is the functional responsibility of the producer. And here any means are good. Through diplomacy, bribery, threats or blackmail,” said Yuri Shmilevich.

This approach to the matter turned out to be successful. From an ordinary producer, Aizenshpis quickly rose to the rank of show business shark. Yuri began helping performers who wanted to be on the big stage. Not everyone suited Aizenshpis. The producer who lit the stars chose artists who could “hook” the viewer. A prerequisite was the presence of a repertoire. To promote musicians, Yuri Shmilevich used the media and television.

In 1988, the Kino group fell into the hands of Aizenshpis. By this time, the musicians had already reached a certain level on their own, but a professional approach to promotion was required. The collaboration of two talented people - Yuri Shmilevich and Viktor Tsoi - bore fruit.

The fame of the producer and musician soared to unprecedented heights. Two years later, Viktor Tsoi dies. Aizenshpis takes out a loan of 5 million rubles and releases the musician’s posthumous album “Black Album”. The circulation of the disc exceeded 1 million copies. The producer earned 24 million from this project.

Yuri Shmilevich's career developed rapidly. After “Kino” there was another group – “Technology”. In fact, Aizenshpis promoted the group from scratch. Young musicians became popular. For an unknown reason, after a year of working together, the paths of the producer and the wards diverge.

Already in 1992, Yuri Aizenshpis was recognized as the best producer in the country. A year after the official recognition, he meets Svetlana Gaiman, known under the pseudonym Linda. They worked for several months, after which Maxim Fadeev began promoting the singer.

For 6 years, Yuri Shmilevich collaborated with the famous singer Vlad Stashevsky in the 90s. Collaboration led to the recording of 5 albums. Aizenshpis increased Vlad’s popularity and recognition significantly. The musician was invited to major concerts and events in Russia and the USA.

Yuri Aizenshpis' track record includes such stars as Katya Lel, Nikita, and the Dynamite group. The main achievement in the work of the producer was Dima Bilan. Under the leadership of Yuri Shmilevich, they learned about the artist in Russia.

Aizenshpis described bright moments of life and work in books. The producer published “Lighting the Stars. Notes and advice from a show business pioneer,” “From a black marketeer to a producer. Business people in the USSR" and "Viktor Tsoi and others. How the stars light up." In memory of the producer, a program was broadcast on the TVC channel called “Wild Money.”

Personal life

Rumors constantly circulated around Aizenshpis. In show business they stated that the producer brought the so-called “blue lobby” into the work. Previously, women were brought to men for promotion; later, lovers of politicians and businessmen began to appear. More than once Yuri Shmilevich and the producer’s wards were called gay, but no official confirmation of the men’s orientation was found.

“Spending time in prison could have influenced Aizenshpis’s orientation,” suggested Alexander Stefanovich, Alla Pugacheva’s ex-husband.

Numerous rumors did not prevent Yuri Shmilevich from living in a civil marriage with Elena Lvovna Kovrigina.

After the death of Aizenshpis, she quickly arranged her personal life by marrying director Leonid Goyningen-Güne. Yuri and Elena had a son, Mikhail. In 2014, a young man was taken into custody by the police due to drug use. During the search, Mikhail was found to have 1.5 grams of cocaine.

Death

Imprisonment had a negative impact on the producer's health. For a long time, Yuri Aizenshpis hid the fact that he had serious problems. Officially, the cause of death is myocardial infarction, but a number of diagnoses led to this, including cirrhosis of the liver, gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatitis B and C. The information that Yuri Shmilevich had AIDS, which led to death, is not documented.

Three days before his death, Aizenshpis felt unwell. Doctors decided to hospitalize the producer. After the manipulations, the condition improved, so Yuri Shmilevich persuaded the doctors to release him from the hospital. The producer wanted to see Dima Bilan receive the prestigious MTV-2005 music award.

The producer did not live to see the ceremony for two days. Aizenshpis's life was cut short at the age of 61. The funeral took place at the Domodedovo cemetery. The farewell ceremony was attended by artists, composers and other show business figures. Numerous photos of the grieving Dima Bilan spread across the Internet. The producer's grave is located next to his parents'.

Admiration for Yuri Aizenshpis
Damir 19.04.2007 03:47:24

I would like to express my admiration for this little man! The younger generation needs to follow his example!

Good memory to Aizenshpis
nikolos 09.01.2010 11:08:34

I came here to honor the memory of this wonderful man, I am proud that we have one Motherland, may you rest in peace, blessed memory forever and the Kingdom of Heaven Yuri Shmilevich! Nikolai.

Once upon a time, the “huckster” Yurka Spitz was a well-known speculator and black marketeer throughout Moscow. At the same time he put together his first group - the Soviet version of the Beatles. After that there were searches, arrests, sentences... He spent 17 years and eight months in prison - almost a third of his life. Aizenshpis was never shy about his criminal past, and when meeting Mazaev he even introduced himself: “Recidivist producer.” When an amnesty was declared for political prisoners and speculators, and currency fraud became currency transactions, Aizenshpis was once again convinced that he was serving time for no clear reason. But he ruined his health in prison so much that he worked on pills for the rest of his life...

The result was a heart attack. They gave him a couple of hours, but he lasted two days. And even on the day of his death he demanded: “Put me on my feet! Bilan is awarded “Singer of the Year”!” He did not live to see the award ceremony for only a few hours. Friends will later say: he was a man who lived with his heart, maybe that’s why it hurt.

He was a music producer when there was no such word in our language. The presenter Vadim Takmenev will talk about the creative life of the eminence grise Aizenshpis - from Kino to Dima Bilan - in the documentary part of the program. No less eloquently, his “children” will tell about the life of their Shmilich: the groups “Technology”, “Dynamite”, “Moral Code”, Vlad Stashevsky, Dima Bilan.