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| | Ask Us A Question - Ethnic Russian music includes many varieties of folk, popular and classical traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Ethnic music is especially associated with classical styles of ballet and opera, of which composers like Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky and the members of The Mighty Handful are among the most well-known. |
 | | Late in the 19th century, elements of Russian folk music (such as the balalaika) began to be used in orchestras, beginning with a Russian folk instrument orchestra led by Vasily Andreyev. |
 | | During the Soviet era, music in the USSR was tightly restricted. |
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