Yu Slatov biography. Sergei Yarovoy - founder and artistic director of the Blue Berets ensemble

The first concert took place in Afghanistan, on the evening of November 19, 1985 at the soldiers' club of the 350th Guards Parachute Regiment. November 19 became the ensemble's birthday.

First composition:

• The leader of the ensemble is the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the regiment, Captain Sergei Yarovoy
• Squad commander Sergei Isakov
• Mechanic - combat vehicle driver Private Igor Ivanchenko
• Private Tarikh Lyssov, the only one from the regimental orchestra
• Company sergeant major, warrant officer Oleg Gontsov

From November 1985 to February 1987, the group performed concerts in front of many units of the Limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Republic of Afghanistan, at the USSR Embassy, ​​trade mission, in the departments of the Afghan KGB and Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as at the Kabul Polytechnic Institute.

In March 1987, the group participated in the third round of the All-Union television competition “When Soldiers Sing”. The performance of the Blue Berets airborne ensemble came directly from Kabul via teleconference and became a sensation. Victory in the competition was unconditional.

In the summer of 1987, the first giant disc was recorded, which quickly became platinum. This record, as a TASS survey showed, entered the top ten most popular in the country. In October 1987, the ensemble came to Moscow for the first time, participated in concerts at the most prestigious venues in the capital - in concert hall"Russia", Kremlin Palace, Variety Theater, Luzhniki, "Olympic".

In February 1988, the ensemble won the final of the first All-Union television competition “When Soldiers Sing”.

Since 1988, the ensemble was located near Moscow in the military camp of the 196th separate communications regiment of the Airborne Forces (now the 38th separate communications regiment) in the village of Medvezhy Ozera, while remaining amateur.

Airborne Forces Ensemble

In August 1991, the Order of the USSR Minister of Defense approved staffing table separate concert ensemble of the Airborne Forces "Blue Berets". In 1994, by Order of the Minister of Defense Russian Federation Army General P. S. Grachev approved the “Regulations on the Airborne Forces concert ensemble “Blue Berets” as part of the 47th Airborne Song and Dance Ensemble”

From October 1991 to the present day in the ensemble:

• 
  Yarovoy Sergey Fedorovich - artistic director ensemble - deputy head of the 47th Airborne Song and Dance Ensemble, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, colonel.
• Slatov Yuri Alekseevich - deputy artistic director - head of the concert ensemble, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, colonel.
• Platonov Denis Yuryevich - accompanist, arranger, ensemble musician, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, senior warrant officer.
• Serdechny Egor Evgenievich - foreman of the ensemble, group musician, sound engineer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, senior warrant officer.
• Vakhrushin Dmitry Aleksandrovich - arranger, ensemble musician, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, warrant officer.

The Blue Berets ensemble is the only one Music band in the Armed Forces of Russia, where all participants are Honored Artists of the Russian Federation.

Ensemble "Blue Berets"- a collective of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as part of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation.

Story

Amateur group

Ensemble discography

1. Gramophone records
   1. “The war is over” ()

1. and audio cassettes
   1. Number albums
      1. “From war to war” (republished in 2009)
      2. “Eh, Share...” (republished in 2010)
      3. “The desk calendar is sad” (republished in 2002)
      4. "Minefield" (2009)
   2. Collections
      1. “Blue Berets - the best songs” ()
      2. "Memory. Favorites." Series " Best songs Russia" ()
      3. “Collection of the best songs” ()
      4. “25 Years (Golden Hits)” ()
      5. "50 Best Songs" ()
2. DVD
   1. Documentary film “Blue Berets. Songs of our life" (2006) production of the studio "VDV-FILM", TPC "Sodruzhestvo"
   2. Video album “Blue Berets. Favorites" (2007) production of the studio "VDV-FILM", TPC "Sodruzhestvo"

Solo work of the group members

In 2006-2007, among fans of the group, a limited edition was distributed through the website "Automatic and Guitar" solo albums Yuri Slatov and Denis Platonov.

1. Yuri Slatov
   1. 1. “My Life Draft” () The album is a remastering of recordings from 1992.
      2. "Rainy Summer" ()
      3. "My war. Notes of a company political officer" () The album includes songs by Yuri Slatov, written during his service in Afghanistan. In 2013, the album was officially re-released as an appendix to Yuri Slatov’s book “My War”.

1. Denis Platonov

Mini-albums “Striped Nature” and “Music of Dreams” ()

Sergey Yarovoy

Ensemble Awards

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An excerpt characterizing the Blue Berets

The next day, the countess, inviting Boris to her place, talked with him, and from that day he stopped visiting the Rostovs.

On December 31, on New Year's Eve 1810, le reveillon [night supper], there was a ball at Catherine's nobleman's house. Should have been at the ball diplomatic corps and the sovereign.
On the Promenade des Anglais, the famous house of a nobleman glowed with countless lights. At the illuminated entrance with a red cloth stood the police, and not only gendarmes, but the police chief at the entrance and dozens of police officers. The carriages drove off, and new ones drove up with red footmen and footmen with feathered hats. Men in uniforms, stars and ribbons came out of the carriages; ladies in satin and ermine carefully stepped down the noisily laid down steps, and hurriedly and silently walked along the cloth of the entrance.
Almost every time a new carriage arrived, there was a murmur in the crowd and hats were taken off.
“Sovereign?... No, minister... prince... envoy... Don’t you see the feathers?...” said from the crowd. One of the crowd, better dressed than the others, seemed to know everyone, and called by name the most noble nobles of that time.
Already one third of the guests had arrived at this ball, and the Rostovs, who were supposed to be at this ball, were still hastily preparing to dress.
There was a lot of talk and preparation for this ball in the Rostov family, a lot of fears that the invitation would not be received, the dress would not be ready, and everything would not work out as needed.
Along with the Rostovs, Marya Ignatievna Peronskaya, a friend and relative of the countess, a thin and yellow maid of honor of the old court, leading the provincial Rostovs in the highest St. Petersburg society, went to the ball.
At 10 o'clock in the evening the Rostovs were supposed to pick up the maid of honor at the Tauride Garden; and yet it was already five minutes to ten, and the young ladies were not yet dressed.
Natasha went to the first big ball In my life. That day she got up at 8 o'clock in the morning and was in feverish anxiety and activity all day. All her strength, from the very morning, was aimed at ensuring that they all: she, mother, Sonya were dressed in the best possible way. Sonya and the Countess trusted her completely. The countess was supposed to be wearing a masaka velvet dress, the two of them were wearing white smoky dresses on pink, silk covers with roses in the bodice. The hair had to be combed a la grecque [in Greek].
Everything essential had already been done: the legs, arms, neck, ears were already especially carefully, like a ballroom, washed, perfumed and powdered; they were already wearing silk, fishnet stockings and white satin shoes with bows; the hairstyles were almost finished. Sonya finished dressing, and so did the Countess; but Natasha, who was working for everyone, fell behind. She was still sitting in front of the mirror with a peignoir draped over her slender shoulders. Sonya, already dressed, stood in the middle of the room and, pressing painfully with her small finger, pinned the last ribbon that squealed under the pin.
“Not like that, not like that, Sonya,” said Natasha, turning her head away from her hair and grabbing the hair with her hands, which the maid who was holding it did not have time to let go. - Not like that, come here. – Sonya sat down. Natasha cut the tape differently.
“Excuse me, young lady, you can’t do this,” said the maid holding Natasha’s hair.
- Oh, my God, well, later! That's it, Sonya.
-Are you coming soon? – the countess’s voice was heard, “it’s already ten.”
- Now. -Are you ready, mom?
- Just pin the current.
“Don’t do it without me,” Natasha shouted, “you won’t be able to!”
- Yes, ten.
It was decided to be at the ball at half past ten, and Natasha still had to get dressed and stop by the Tauride Garden.

On the evening of November 19, 1985, in the soldiers’ club of the 350th Guards Parachute Regiment, which was pressed against the “take-off” of the Kabul airport, there was, as they say, “nowhere for an apple to fall.” Still would! The first concert of the new amateur ensemble was underway. And, most importantly, the native regimental, called “Blue Berets”!

Their comrades, with whom they went to “combat” more than once, took the stage: the leader of the ensemble - the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the regiment, senior lieutenant Sergei Yarovoy, the company sergeant major, warrant officer Oleg Gontsov, the squad commander, sergeant Sergei Isakov, the mechanic - driver of the combat vehicle, private Igor Ivanchenko and private Tarikh Lyssov, the only one who served in the regimental orchestra. This day is considered the birthday of the Blue Berets ensemble.

Then, at the first concert, a variety of songs were played: from Alla Pugacheva to “Time Machine,” and the concert itself was a kind of result of one dispute. The fact is that the musical equipment donated to the paratroopers by the Belarusian Komsomol was nominally owned by the artillery regiment, but everyone wanted to play. Then Sergei Yarovoy put forward a proposal - whoever prepares a concert in a week gets the instruments and equipment. With the support of the regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Gennady Sergeevich Borisov and his deputy for political affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kazantsev, who met the desire of the children to organize their own group, and, by the way, forever remained devoted fans of the work of their native group, the competition was won by the ensemble of the 350th RAP. Rehearsing at night, in between combat operations, the ensemble began to write and perform their original songs.

Soon, cassettes with recordings of the Blue Berets began to circulate throughout Afghanistan. Many of them became the best examples of the so-called “Afghan” song. These are “Memory” by Oleg Gontsov, “At the Dangerous Line” and “The Landing Goes into a Breakthrough” by Sergei Yarovoy and dozens and dozens of other songs that have become immensely dear to everyone who served on Afghan soil. From November 1985 to February 1987, the group performed concerts in front of many units of the Limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Republic of Afghanistan, at the USSR Embassy, ​​the Trade Representation, at the Central Committee of the DOMA, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DRA, at the Kabul Polytechnic Institute.

While performing at a concert at the Kabul Polytechnic Institute, the Blue Berets met the only music group"Gulsor". 1987

However, the concerts were only pleasant moments, although they were the results of hard work at rehearsals, in the hard combat work of the paratroopers. All members of the ensemble were awarded for fulfilling their international duty state awards: captain Yarovaya - two Orders of the Red Star, warrant officer Gontsov - two Orders of the Red Star, private Ivanchenko - the Order of the Red Star, sergeant Isakov - the medal "For Courage". During the two years the group was in Afghanistan, S. Ufimtsev, M. Abashev, A. Rogachev appeared on stage as part of the Blue Berets, and V. Turkin, V. Panchenko, A. Pikulik, V. took an active part in the group’s work. Belous. Combat General Viktor Pavlovich Kutsenko wrote a song especially for the Blue Berets.

In March 1987, the group took part in the third round of the All-Union Television Competition “When Soldiers Sing”. This Competition and its television version, aired on Channel 1 of Central Television, were extremely popular among television viewers. The performance of the airborne ensemble "Blue Berets", and even directly from Kabul via teleconference, became a sensation. Thousands of young but gray soldiers who returned from the war, thousands of mothers whose sons still served in Afghanistan, millions of ordinary Soviet people, worried about their children, forever gave their hearts to the Blue Berets ensemble. The victory in the Competition was unconditional!

In the summer of 1987, the first disc was recorded - a giant, which in the shortest possible time became super-platinum. This record entered the top ten most popular in the country, according to a TASS survey. In October 1987, the ensemble came to Moscow for the first time and took part in concerts at the most prestigious venues in the capital: the Rossiya State Concert Hall, the Kremlin Palace, the Variety Theater, Luzhniki, the Olympic Stadium - that’s far from full list concert halls that applauded the paratroopers. The Headquarters of the Airborne Forces receives hundreds of applications from all over the country for the performance of the Blue Berets group.

There is only one answer: “The ensemble is amateur. The participants are serving in the Republic of Afghanistan.” In February 1988, the ensemble became the Winner of the final of the First All-Union Television Competition “When Soldiers Sing.” The crowded 15,000-ton "Olympiyskiy" standing applauds the guardsmen - the paratroopers. Now laureates of the prestigious Competition, the Blue Berets are making a month-long tour of formations and units of the Airborne Forces. The ensemble became a cult group of the Airborne Forces.

However, problems arise with future fate ensemble. The group leader, Captain Sergei Yarovoy, returns from Afghanistan and receives a new assignment; warrant officer Oleg Gontsov decides to remain to serve in the DRA; the term of military service for the rest of the team members ends. The ensemble is on the verge of ceasing to exist. In the Political Department of the Airborne Forces, headed by Lieutenant General S. M. Smirnov, they understand that the ensemble must be preserved, because it has become a powerful force patriotic education youth. Officers E. Zolotarev, E. Karataev, A. Reshetnikov are doing everything possible to ensure that the ensemble continues to work. Captain S. Yarovoy is tasked with selecting new team members.

A compromise decision is made: the ensemble will be based in the Moscow region in one of the units of the Airborne Forces. But until the issue of the staffing structure is resolved, all participants will be engaged not only in creativity, but also in fulfilling their official duties.

Back in October 1987, on the set of the program “When Soldiers Sing,” Sergei Yarovoy met his classmate at the Novosibirsk Higher Political School, senior lieutenant Yuri Slatov. The latter then performed his song “Orders are not for sale” and took first place among the authors and performers. After serving in Afghanistan, Yuri returned to the Union in 1986 and was assigned to the city of Maikop as assistant to the Head of the division’s political department for Komsomol work. Many who served in Afghanistan still have Yu. Slatov’s songs recorded on cassette tapes - “At the Airplane Gangway”, “Password - Afghan”, “Demobilizations Flew Away”, etc. Sergei Yarovoy invited his friend to join the Airborne Forces and connect his life with creativity.

In May 1988, in the communications regiment in Bear Lakes near Moscow, a new political officer of the battalion, Captain Sergei Yarovoy, and a new propagandist of the regiment, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Slatov, appeared, they are also Laureates of the All-Union Competition. Has begun new stage in the life of the Blue Berets ensemble.

Very quickly, new members were found and invited to the group: from the Pskov Airborne Division - Private V. Rimsha, at home, in Bear Lakes - Privates E. Serdechny and E. Rozhkov. Why soldiers and not professional musicians? The answer to this question has become the principle of staffing the ensemble since the very birth of the group. Only real paratroopers who know the service not from songs should perform on stage. During the period from September 1988 to June 1990, the group repeatedly participated in the filming of various television programs, in Competitions and Festivals, and toured all over the world with concerts. Soviet Union. The ensemble "jokingly" filled stadiums and Sports Palaces and successfully competed in terms of the number of spectators with the then incredibly popular "Tender May". All money collected from the concerts was transferred to local organizations of Warriors - Internationalists for the construction of monuments, assistance to the disabled and the families of the victims. More than a million rubles were transferred.

Unfortunately, this money did not always reach those in need. Let it remain on the conscience of some former leaders veteran organizations. But even then, the first business trips to “hot spots” appeared in the ensemble’s tour schedule. Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan, Baku, Tbilisi, Vilnius. No matter what they say today about the mission of the Soviet Armed Forces in these cities and regions, they have always been close to ordinary soldiers and officers carrying out the orders of their country.

The songs of the ensemble helped people in uniform to survive spiritually, under the constant pressure of human misunderstanding. It was in those years that the real persecution of the Army began. But the Blue Berets did not break, they were always true to their principles - to sing only the truth. By 1990, the ensemble's repertoire had changed significantly. Along with the songs written in Afghanistan by Sergei Yarov and Oleg Gontsov, new ones appeared - by Yuri Slatov. These were tough and angry compositions about what the Blue Berets saw during their tour: the collapse of the country and the Army, people's attitude towards the "Afghans", national wars and much more. And again “Berets” found their audience, the halls were full, people held their breath and listened to the song’s truth about life. It was then that the songs appeared - “You sent us there!”, “I don’t believe”, “Epaulettes of Russia”, “Philosopher”, etc. The result of the work of the third generation of the ensemble was the release of the giant disc “So the War Is Over” by the Melodiya company ". In June 1991, the regiment's amateur ensemble finally received "professional" status. From now on, the group began to be called the Concert Ensemble of the Russian Airborne Forces. Before this event, G. Razumov, A. Khamizov, M. Gurov, D. Kalmykov managed to play in the group. So, since June 1991, creativity has become the cornerstone of the lives of the members of the Blue Berets Ensemble.

The battalion's political officer, Major Sergei Yarovoy, now becomes the full-time Artistic Director of the group, and the regiment's propagandist, Captain Yuri Slatov, becomes his deputy. Denis Platonov and Dmitry Vakhrushin, who are finishing their military service in the Svir Airborne Division, join the group; Yegor Serdechny, now an old-timer of the ensemble, also remains for extra-long service.

Work began almost immediately on new program, but the active touring activities. The group visited Germany, Poland several times, former republics ah Yugoslavia, performed concerts in front of US Army personnel, “discovered” the regions of the Far North, the Arctic, Far East. And everywhere the Blue Berets were greeted by a warm welcome from the audience, real people's love. The once great Soviet Union was collapsing, but for the airborne ensemble, born in the Afghan war, there were no borders, just as there are none now - applications for concerts come from all the former republics of the USSR.

Unfortunately, the list of “hot spots” where the guys have visited is constantly growing: Transnistria and Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Chechnya, Bosnia and Kosovo. Coming to war, "Berets" try to give as much as possible more concerts in front of soldiers at outposts, and sometimes right in battle formations. They often speak to residents, sometimes of warring parties, carrying out a peacekeeping mission. It is no coincidence that awards for bravery during stays in “hot spots” were added to the military Orders for the Afghan war.

In 1994, the group recorded its fourth album, entitled “From War to War,” and in December 1995 a CD of the same name was released. Everything experienced during business trips to “hot spots” was reflected in the songs that were included in the fifth album, recorded in 1996 and called “Eh, Share...”. In March 1997, responding to numerous requests from veterans of various wars and former paratroopers, the Ensemble recorded its sixth album with old songs entitled “The Desk Calendar is Sad.”

The concert is 20 years old. This is a significant date for any musical group, and even more so for the military. The permanent artistic director of the group, Sergei Yarovoy, is already a colonel. Yuri Slatov received the rank of colonel. All members of the ensemble were awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia." Denis Platonov and Yegor Serdechny wear shoulder straps of senior warrant officers, warrant officer Dmitry Vakhrushin. Another member came to the ensemble - Oleg Ivanenko.

But the story of the legendary “Afghan” ensemble “Blue Berets” is far from over. Plane tickets have long been purchased to fly off on the next tour, the schedule of which is scheduled for six months in advance, a new record is being prepared for recording, everyday life is going on creative work.

This means that more than once people will hear piercing, truthful songs about their children - the defenders of the Russian Land, performed by the Blue Berets Ensemble!

The first concert took place in Afghanistan, on the evening of November 19, 1985 at the soldiers' club of the 350th Guards Parachute Regiment. November 19 became the ensemble's birthday.

First composition:

• The leader of the ensemble is the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the regiment, Captain Sergei Yarovoy
• Squad commander Sergei Isakov
• Mechanic - combat vehicle driver Private Igor Ivanchenko
• Private Tarikh Lyssov, the only one from the regimental orchestra
• Company sergeant major, warrant officer Oleg Gontsov

From November 1985 to February 1987, the group performed concerts in front of many units of the Limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Republic of Afghanistan, at the USSR Embassy, ​​trade mission, in the departments of the Afghan KGB and Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as at the Kabul Polytechnic Institute.

In March 1987, the group participated in the third round of the All-Union television competition “When Soldiers Sing”. The performance of the Blue Berets airborne ensemble came directly from Kabul via teleconference and became a sensation. Victory in the competition was unconditional.

In the summer of 1987, the first giant disc was recorded, which quickly became platinum. This record, as a TASS survey showed, entered the top ten most popular in the country. In October 1987, the ensemble came to Moscow for the first time, participating in concerts at the most prestigious venues in the capital - in the Rossiya Concert Hall, the Kremlin Palace, the Variety Theater, Luzhniki, and the Olympic Stadium.

In February 1988, the ensemble won the final of the first All-Union television competition “When Soldiers Sing”.

Since 1988, the ensemble was located near Moscow in the military camp of the 196th separate communications regiment of the Airborne Forces (now the 38th separate communications regiment) in the village of Medvezhy Ozera, while remaining amateur.

Airborne Forces Ensemble

In August 1991, by Order of the USSR Minister of Defense, the staffing schedule of the separate concert ensemble of the Airborne Forces “Blue Berets” was approved. In 1994, by the Order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army P. S. Grachev, the “Regulations on the Blue Berets Airborne Forces Concert Ensemble as part of the 47th Airborne Forces Song and Dance Ensemble” were approved.

From October 1991 to the present day in the ensemble:

• 
  Yarovoy Sergey Fedorovich - artistic director of the ensemble - deputy head of the 47th Airborne Song and Dance Ensemble, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, colonel.
• Slatov Yuri Alekseevich - deputy artistic director - head of the concert ensemble, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, colonel.
• Platonov Denis Yuryevich - accompanist, arranger, ensemble musician, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, senior warrant officer.
• Serdechny Egor Evgenievich - foreman of the ensemble, group musician, sound engineer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, senior warrant officer.
• Vakhrushin Dmitry Aleksandrovich - arranger, ensemble musician, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, warrant officer.

The Blue Berets ensemble is the only musical group in the Russian Armed Forces, where all participants are Honored Artists of the Russian Federation.

The history of the creation of the Blue Berets ensemble

Military unit 54164-S. Since 1991, this alphanumeric letter has hidden an unusual military formation Russian army. It was then, in the 91st, that the amateur vocal and instrumental ensemble “Blue Berets,” formed during the Afghan war in the 350th Guards Parachute Regiment, received the status of a professional musical group of the Ministry of Defense.

And for the first time the entire Soviet Union learned about the Blue Berets group in October 1987. The country saw singing paratroopers on TV screens in the popular All-Union competition “When Soldiers Sing.” I saw it not on the stage of the Dynamo Sports Palace, from where the concert was broadcast, but directly from Kabul. Soviet television organized a live teleconference from Afghanistan. The victory of the guards who performed the song “At the Dangerous Line” was unconditional!

The first performance in front of his fellow soldiers in the form of a “vocal and instrumental ensemble” took place on November 19, 1985. From that concert to this day, the permanent artistic director of the group is Sergei Fedorovich Yarovoy. Then - captain, and now - colonel. Knight of two Orders of the Red Star. Honored Artist of Russia. The number of concerts given by the Blue Berets Airborne Ensemble by 2014 is approaching three thousand.

For six years, the so-called “amateur” stage of the group’s creativity, more than thirty people appeared on stage as part of the group. Since the fall of 1991, the Separate Concert Ensemble of the Russian Airborne Forces “Blue Berets” has been operating with the same composition. These are Colonels Sergei Yarovoy and Yuri Slatov, senior warrant officers Yegor Serdechny and Denis Platonov, as well as warrant officer Dmitry Vakhrushin. For almost a quarter of a century they have been honorably carrying the creative banner of the legendary military ensemble, honoring the traditions laid down in the first years of the ensemble’s existence. This is a song story about a soldier’s feat of arms, a memory of those who did not return from wars, a bow to mothers who lost their sons. This is a celebration of the heroism and romance of service in the Airborne Forces.

The ensemble visited concerts in all the “hot” spots and combat zones that carried out Russian troops since the early 90s. The group constantly performs for military personnel of all branches and branches of the Armed Forces in far and near garrisons on the territory of the Russian Federation and beyond. The geography of “civilian” tours of military musicians is wide. This is Russia, countries near and far abroad.

The group is constantly developing creatively. Since 1990, seven full-length song albums and three video versions have been recorded and released. The ensemble's musicians participate in various individual projects: They release solo albums, write books and music for films, collaborate with radio stations.

Over many years creative activity the ensemble was awarded the Main national Prize“RUSSIAN NATIONAL OLYMPUS”, Special National Prize “KREMLIN GRAND”, awarded the Highest Russian public award - the golden order “PRIDE OF RUSSIA”, the highest award of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans - the Order “FOR MERIT”, the Orthodox Order “SAINT SOPHIA. FAITH, HOPE, LOVE”, the Order of the National Security Agency “FOR HONOR AND DIGNITY”. The ensemble became the laureate of the 2011 Chanson of the Year Award.

The Blue Berets concert ensemble of the Airborne Forces is the only musical group in the Armed Forces where all participants are Honored Artists of Russia.