Yuri Aizenshpis is called one of the first producers in Russia. It was he who opened the Kino group to the general public, brought big stage Dima Bilan. Aizenshpis died 8 years ago, but there are still a lot of rumors around his name.
A fabulous amount was seized
Aizenshpis’s sister, Faina Shmilyevna, still remembers her brother almost every day. Although in childhood, according to a relative, they did not have to communicate so often. After all, Aizenshpis spent his entire youth in prison.
“We had completely different childhoods,” recalls Faina. “While I was growing up, he was in prison. My parents were very worried, but I probably didn’t realize everything.
Yuri Shmilevich ended up in places not so remote for currency fraud and speculation on an especially large scale. IN Soviet era this was a serious article. Relatives still remember: the first time he was detained right at the entrance on Christmas Day - January 7, 1970. Having sold the gold at a profit, he returned home. A fabulous sum of sixteen thousand rubles and seven thousand dollars, as well as imported equipment, was confiscated from him at that time. Aizenshpis was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released early after serving seven years. However, less than a month later he was again put on trial for profiteering - and received eight years.
According to Faina Shmilyevna, the relatives could not even imagine that after this Yuri would become a famous producer. Although his organizational skills showed up in his youth. Already at the age of 20, he worked as an administrator with the rock group Sokol.
Stashevsky's departure was a blow
Having freed himself, Yuri Shmilevich began to engage in show business. At first he helped the Kino group and Viktor Tsoi, then he found Vlad Stashevsky. In a matter of months, he turned an unknown boy into a real idol, whom the whole country coveted.
“My brother never shared his difficulties, although of course there were plenty of them in his work,” says Faina Aizenshpis. “But this topic was closed, he always answered our questions: “It’s better not to talk about this.” Yura was demanding and tough in his work, but at the same time very a fair man. With us, he was completely different: calm, reasonable - we had ordinary family relationships.
Joseph Prigogine once admitted: Aizenshpis had no luck with artists. Having achieved fame, they betrayed him. At first glance, they parted with Stashevsky quietly and calmly. Vlad decided that he could work independently. Yuri Shmilevich let the singer go, but deep down he was very worried. The departure of Vlad, in whom he had poured his whole soul, was a real blow. Unfortunately, he was far from the first - many whom Aizenshpis brought into the public betrayed him and left him with nothing.
“Once my brother told me that an unknown boy came from somewhere and he was messing with him,” continues the producer’s sister. – It was Dima Bilan. It was Yura who helped him rise; his ascent took place before our eyes.
Until the last time we heard his heartbeat
There are still a lot of rumors surrounding the death of Aizenshpis. According to the official version, he died of a heart attack, but in show business they believe that this is not so.
“I had a heart attack,” sighs Faina Shmilyevna. “I was at the door of the intensive care unit where he was taken.” We spent the whole day there, I still remember everything in the smallest detail. We heard the heartbeat - everything is loud in the intensive care unit!
Those close to the producer do not hide the fact that Aizenshpis never really thought about his health. His players were much more important to him. For example, before his death he was very worried whether Bilan would receive well-deserved awards at one of the prestigious music awards. Dima took the awards and dedicated them to his first producer, who lived only 60 years.
“I think the prison did its job,” says Faina Aizenshpis. – So many years of life were actually lost. Every day is a struggle for existence, health is ruined. Everyone told him that he needed to rest and work less. But he didn’t listen to anyone, for him it was a normal existence. Therefore, if his brother were alive, he would not change anything.
January 22nd, 2017
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 smart person He 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. Meanwhile, 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 the isolation ward, 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 for 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. And to your home, and big man give it away, maybe sell it 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 with everyone common language 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: 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, like 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 very big monetary reward—10,000 rubles—I still got it after leaving the zone. And in the wild it was very useful to me.
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Show business, twice winner music award"Ovation". He has helped many current stars national stage ascend to the show business horizon. And the creative groups and solo singers with whom he worked still evoke a response in the hearts of the public.
Family and childhood of Yuri Aizenshpis
Yuri Aizenshpis, whose photo can be seen in this article, was born in Chelyabinsk, immediately after the war, on June fifteenth, 1945. His father Shmil Moiseevich was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Mother's name was Maria Mikhailovna. The surname Aizenshpis means “iron peak” in Yiddish. Yuri's parents were Jews and worked in the Main Directorate for Airfield Construction.
At first the family lived in a wooden barracks. But in 1961 they received an apartment in Sokol (it was a prestigious Moscow district at that time). Yuri Aizenshpis was very fond of sports since childhood. What fascinated him most was athletics, handball and volleyball. He could well become a champion in one of these areas. But he still had to leave the sport. The reason for this was a leg injury he received at the age of 16.
First steps in show business
After school, Yuri Aizenshpis entered a university with a degree in economic engineering. He graduated from it in 1968. In addition to his passion for sports, Yuri had something else. He was attracted to music. Since his sports career was closed for him due to injury, he chose show business.
And his first job was as an administrator of the rock group “Falcon”. He sold tickets to the concerts of the creative team according to an original scheme, which helped technically equip the stage with first-class equipment. And the quality and purity of sound have always been very important for Yuri.
First, he negotiated with club directors for the group to perform. Next, Aizenshpis bought all the tickets for the evening concerts and then sold them himself at a higher price. Yuri was the first in the Soviet Union to hire security to ensure order during the show.
Yuri Aizenshpis: biography. Arrest
Using the proceeds from ticket sales (mostly dollars), Aizenshpis purchased from foreigners musical instruments for the group and high-quality sound equipment. But at that time in the USSR all foreign exchange transactions were illegal, and he took a great risk by making such transactions. If he had been caught, he could have been imprisoned for a serious prison term.
Law enforcement agencies drew attention to his “speculative” activities. On January 7, 1970, Aizenshpis was arrested. During the search, more than 7 thousand dollars were found and confiscated (as Yuri himself admitted in one of his interviews, he had even accumulated more than 17 thousand dollars) and over 15,000 rubles. Aizenshpis Yuri Shmilevich was convicted of currency fraud. He was given a sentence of ten years in prison. Yuri was sent to the city of Krasnoyarsk to serve his sentence.
After he was released, he did not enjoy it for long. And again he ended up in prison under the same article. But this time he was given seven years and eight months in prison. In total, he served seventeen years in prison. And he was finally released only in April of 1988.
Imprisonment
Yuri was put in prison to serve time among inveterate criminals. Every day he observed cruelty, blood and mayhem. But they didn't touch him. The main reason Most likely it was his communication skills. He knew how to listen and conduct a dialogue. Being a very sociable person, Yuri Aizenshpis was able to quickly adapt to an environment that was alien to him.
Although more than half of the prisoners usually go hungry, he avoided this pitfall. The money, although secretly transferred in the form of bribes to the prison, was able to make his existence in the zone more bearable than for many. At least he wasn't starving.
Yuri was not kept in one place; he was transferred many times to other regions and zones. Only in any place he was distinguished by his unbending character and high standard of living.
The first “star” group of Yuri Aizenshpis
After his release from prison, where Yuri Aizenshpis served a total of seventeen years, he got a job at the Gallery, which created the city committee of the Komsomol. Aizenshpis first organized concerts for young talented performers. In 1989 he became the official producer of the Kino group. Yuri was among the first to break the state monopoly on the release of records. Aizenshpis released the last recording of the Kino group, “Black Album,” in 1990, taking out a loan of 5 million rubles for this. This was his first group, which he brought to the world stage.
Further activities in show business
In 1991-1992 producer Yuri Aizenshpis worked closely with the Tekhnologiya group. He helped release their first album, “Everything You Want,” which became their debut. He expanded his advertising activities widely, producing printed products depicting members of the “Technology” group: postcards, posters, etc.
In 1992 he received the Ovation Award as the best producer in the country. And from this year to ninety-three he collaborated with the Moral Code and Young Guns. In the summer of 1994 he began working with Vlad Stashevsky. During their collaboration, four were recorded music album. The debut was “Love Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
In the same year, Yuri was one of the organizers of the international music festival"Sunny Adjara". Participated in the establishment of the Star Prize. Based on the results of its creative activity in ninety-five, Aizenshpis Yuri Shmilevich again received the Ovation Award.
Born on July 15, 1945 in Moscow.
In 1968 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in economics engineering. He began his professional career in 1965, collaborating as an administrator with the rock group SOKOL. Developed an original scheme for the team's activities. After a verbal agreement with the director of the club to hold a concert, the administrator bought tickets for the evening screening of the film and distributed them at a higher price. For the first time, I involved people who ensured order during the group’s performance. On January 7, 1970 he was arrested. As a result of the search, 15,585 rubles and 7,675 dollars were confiscated. Convicted under Article 88 (gold and currency transactions). He was released from prison in 1977 and subsequently received an official apology.
For a short time he worked at the Gallery Gallery under the city committee of the Komsomol, organizing concerts of young performers. At the beginning of 1989, he produced the KINO group. He was one of the first to break the state monopoly on record publishing. Having borrowed 5,000,000 rubles (1990), he released last job group "KINO" - "Black Album". From 1991 to 1992 he collaborated with the TECHNOLOGY group. Helps musicians release their debut album “Everything You Want”, organizes the production of various printed products (posters, postcards, etc.).
In 1992 he became a laureate of the national Russian music award “Ovation” in the category “best producer”. Between 1992 and 1993 worked as a producer with the groups “MORAL CODE” and “YOUNG GUNS”. Since the summer of 1994, he has been collaborating with singer Vlad STASHEVSKY (4 albums were recorded in 1997, the debut - “Love Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” - was released on the Aisenshpis Records label). Participated in the organization international festival“Sunny Adjara” (1994), as well as in the establishment of the “Star” music award. In 1995, based on the results of work for 1993-1994, he was again awarded the Ovation Prize. In 1997, he continued to work with Vlad Stashevsky, while simultaneously collaborating with the aspiring singer Inga Drozdova. From 1999 to 2000 he was involved in the SASHA project. From 1998 to 2001 - raised performer NIKITA to the heights of popularity.
He passed away on September 20, 2005 in Moscow. He was buried at the Domodedovo cemetery near Moscow.
Unknown to Soviet citizens foreign word“Producer” 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 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 has not yet begun, and Yuri Aizenshpis has already begun to use the phrase “rock band”, which is absolutely incomprehensible to the average Soviet ear, taken from Western music industry. The first producer of the Soviet Union himself met modern music With vinyl records, with which he successfully farced.
His parents are 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 years in prison many years. 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. Mom is from Belarus, she spent 3 years as a partisan in the forests.
Yuri Aizenshpis was born in 1945 in Chelyabinsk. 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 higher education 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 fur items 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 par value. Then he tried to make money by producing 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 - business as usual, 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 mellitus, liver cirrhosis. 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 to 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 pay own funds release of the “Black Album” by the group “Kino”. Before him, no one had risked doing this. After Tsoi, he worked with the rock groups “Technology”, “Moral Code” and “Dynamite”. Following the teams, it was the turn 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 money big money. In 2001, Aizenshpis became general director the entire Media Star enterprise. Everything would be 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. TO a huge bouquet diseases will add a perforated ulcer. Doctors successfully eliminate new problem, but the next day the patient will die 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 producer Dima Bilan, he will become the target of an attack for Aizenshpis's common-law wife Elena Kovrigina, who tried to justify in court her right to the artist's name brand, which, as she believed, belongs entirely common-law husband and claimed 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.