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Russian conductor and violinist.

In 1968, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the then-renamed Leningrad Symphony where he remained until his appointment as Music Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet in 1976.

He received the Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2002 (13 February 2003).

In 2015, the Teatro La Fenice awarded Temirkanov its prize 'A Life for Music' (unofficially known as the Nobel Prize for Musicians).

Temirkanov won in 1966 the All-Union Conductors Competition.

He was awarded with the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1998 (received the 4th of June 1999) - for concert programs 1995-1998 Academic Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after Shostakovich.

He made his Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra debut in 1967 and then became the assistant conductor before becoming the Principal Conductor between 1968-76.

He was also music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra between 2000-06.

The 6432 Temirkanov asteroid was named after the conductor in 1975.

He would win numerous accolades including the Order "For Merit for the Fatherland" in 1998, 2003, 208, and 2013.

Temirkanov attended the Leningrad School for Talented Children where he continued his studies in violin and viola.

He became the principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1977 and its Principal conducting between 1992-98.

He was invited by Kirill Kondrashin to tour Europe and the U.S. with the Moscow Philharmonic and famed violinist David Oistrakh.

Temirkanov was the first Soviet artist permitted to perform in the United States after cultural relations were resumed with the Soviet Union at the end of the Soviet-Afghan War in 1988.

Drew attention for saying that women are essentially weak and thus not well suited to be classical conductors.