Vasili Vinogradov
Vasili 'Ivanovich Vinogradov' was an ethnically Russian Tatar opera composer, violinist and pedagogue, awarded as a Tatar ASSR Honoured Worker of Culture in 1944.
In collaboration with Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev and Soltan Ğäbäşi he composed the first Tatar-language operas, Saniä and Eşçe.
Vinogradov also composed many symphonic concertos, based on traditional Tatar and Bashkir music, music for dramatic plays, arrangement of folk music.