Why Viktor Kalina was imprisoned. Chansonnier Victor Kalina: “I am very grateful to fate that there was a prison in my life

Born on February 3, 1968 in the Kostanay region of the Kazakh SSR. When he was 6 years old, he moved with his parents to the city of Borisov. He studied at 4 schools, but graduated from only one - with a musical bias. I studied button accordion at a music school for 5 years. At the age of 7, he taught himself to play the guitar. From the same age he wrote poetry and music. From 10 to 16 years old he was involved in cycling. In this sport, he achieved certain success, becoming a candidate for master of sports, a prize-winner of the USSR, and a champion of the BSSR among youth. He served in the army. After that, he was engaged in cycling, where he also achieved noticeable results, becoming a four-time champion of the BSSR, a bronze medalist of the USSR, but all this did not seriously interest Victor. From the age of 16 to 24, he was fond of Kyokushinkai karate-do, but was seriously involved in hand-to-hand combat. He took part in illegal fights without rules. He has the title of master of sports and a 1991 USSR medalist in hand-to-hand combat. He served in the special forces of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Belarusian SSR. During his service, while suppressing mass unrest in the Baltic states, he received a severe head injury, after which he was discharged.V. Kalina - Play the violinist about happiness - V. Kalina (Russian chanson) After finishing his service, he continued to practice hand-to-hand combat, working as a trainer and instructor of hand-to-hand combat in various schools, as well as military unit 63760. Periodically, serving under a contract, at the invitation of fellow soldiers, visited local conflict zones in the Caucasus. After leaving the military, he became interested in extreme yoga, where he repeated several records included in the Guinness Book. He studied human capabilities - he practiced walking on coals, piercing the body with knitting needles, swords, etc. Also, during these years, he became interested in bard art song. He actively took up writing songs and participating in art song festivals, where he repeatedly became a laureate and prize-winner. From 1989 to the present, he is interested in Eastern philosophy, theosophy, parapsychology. During these years, fulfilling the role of his own promoter, he organizes his own concerts and actively tours in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia. From 1992 to 2007, he is engaged in entrepreneurial activities. In 1999, his new album “The Wanderer” was released in a style that was uncharacteristic for him. A year later, at the invitation of the producer and owner of the company “Master Sound Rekords - Russian Chanson” Yuri Sevastyanov, he moved into the musical direction “Russian Chanson”. During the same period, he and his family moved to Moscow for permanent residence. In March 2001, the Russian Chanson company released his first album, written in the Russian Chanson style - “Forgotten Land”. In the fall of 2001, another album was released - “Prison Romance”. After some time, Victor terminated the contract with the Russian Chanson company, and continued to work as an independent performer and producer. Later, Viktor Kalina himself realized that breaking the contract with Sevostyanov was a mistake:
After leaving Yuri Sevostyanov, Viktor Kalina’s career began to decline. However, having quickly put things in order, he gets down to business with renewed vigor. And, from 2002 to 2004, Victor Kalina writes and releases 4 albums: “Northern Wind” (ArturMusic studio); “Kalina Gorkaya”, “Generals of the Courts”, “Woman in Trouble” (Classic company). Begins production activities, producing the group of his wife Svetlana “New Murki”, and recording two albums for them. Things are going so successfully that it becomes noticeable and from the outside. Here is how Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok, one of the masters of the Belarusian stage, spoke about the success of Viktor Kalina:
In the fall of 2004, due to the illness of his son Christian, Victor and his family were forced to return to Minsk. Over the course of 2 years, Victor wrote and published 3 new albums - “Naughty Reveler” (2005), “Old Friends” (2005), "Golden Arrows" (2006). In Russia, these albums and MP3s are released on the Soyuz label. 10 clips are released.

Victor Kalina - born 02/03/1968. Nationality - Belarusian. Born in the Kostanay region. Republic of Kazakhstan. From the age of six he lived with his parents in the city of Borisov, Republic of Belarus. I studied in 4 schools, but graduated from school 2 with a musical focus. For five years I studied at a music school in the "Bayan" class. He has been playing the guitar, writing poetry and music since the age of seven (self-taught). From 10 to 16 years old he was involved in cycling. Achievements: Candidate of Masters of Masters, medalist of the USSR, champion of the BSSR in youth. After the army he was engaged in cycling: four-time champion of the BSSR, bronze medalist of the USSR, but this was a hobby. From 16 to 24 years old he studied karate-do "Kyokusenkai" but achieved results in hand-to-hand combat. Fights without rules on betting. Title: Master of Sports, 1991 USSR medalist in hand-to-hand combat. Army: Army Special Forces. While performing his military duty, during the suppression of riots, he received a severe head injury (Baltic Action District). Committed. Then he continued to engage in hand-to-hand combat, working as a trainer and instructor of hand-to-hand combat in various schools and military unit 63760. He periodically visited local conflict zones in the Caucasus under a contract (fellow soldiers and special forces buddies were invited). During these years, he became actively interested in extreme yoga, where he repeated several records included in the Guinness Book. He studied human capabilities (walking on coals, piercing the body with knitting needles, swords, etc.) and during these years he also became interested in bard's original song. He writes a lot of songs and participates with them in art song festivals, where he has repeatedly become a laureate and prize-winner. From 1989 to the present, he has been interested in Eastern philosophy, Theosophy, and parapsychology. During these years he organizes concerts for himself and actively tours throughout Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. In 1996, his first album, “Life Goes On,” was released. From 1992 to 2007 head of a number of enterprises and companies. In 1999, his new album “Wanderer” was released in the style of “New Age” (Gala, Beatripe, etc.). At the invitation of the brilliant producer and owner of the company "Master Sound Rekords - Russian Chanson" Yuri Nikolaevich Sevastyanov, in 2000 he moved to the musical direction "Russian Chanson" and moved with his family to permanent residence in Moscow. March 2001, the Russian Chanson company releases his first chanson album, “Forgotten Land.” In the fall of 2001, another album, “Prison Romance,” was released. Due to a tragic coincidence of circumstances and cunningly woven intrigues, Victor terminates the contract with the Russian Chanson company and goes free as a performer and producer. As V. Kalina himself once admitted: “It was a fatal mistake I made. Yuri Sevastyanov told me that he needed two years to make me a star no less bright M. Krug. Producers like Yu. Sevastyanov don’t just throw away . He is a great man, the creator of the art movement and the “Russian Chanson” brand. Very difficult times have come for Victor to “freely navigate” the muddy rivers of show business. From 2002 to 2004, Victor Kalina writes and releases 4 albums: “Wind northern" - APTYP-MUSIK, "Kalina Gorkaya", "Generals of the Courts", "Woman Trouble" - CLASSIC KOMPANI. Produces his wife Svetlana's group "New Murki" and records two albums for them. In the fall of 2004, due to the illness of his son Christian Victor I am forced to return to Minsk with my family. As one of the masters of the Belarusian stage, I. Luchenok, admitted: “Never before in the history of the Belarusian stage has there been such a phenomenon that from complete obscurity an artist has become the most popular and popular performer in a year.” Victor writes and publishes three new albums in two years: “Naughty Reveler” - 2005, “Old Friends” - 2005, “Golden Arrows” - 2006. In Russia, these albums and MP-3 (collection of albums) are released "Union". Ten clips are being released. For the first time in the history of the stage, a video is being filmed - the series "Old Friends" and "Generals of the Courts", consisting of 8 clips shot in the "mini-movie" version. These clips occupy the top lines in the top parades and orders on all the world's satellite Russian-language interactive music channels (MUSIC - BOKS, First Baltic, First Belorussian, etc.) his songs and videos have supplanted not only everything related to chanson, but also pop music . In two years, Viktor Kalina gave more than a hundred box-office solo concerts in Belarus alone to full houses. On October 29, 2006, to a full house (3000 seats), a concert in memory of M. Krug “In the Circle of Friends” took place at the Palace of the Republic, in which took part: Alexander Dyumin, the group “Fellow Traveler”, E. Amiramov, Katya Ogonyok, V. Chernyakov , Gennady Zharov, Oleg Pakhomov, group "New Murki". In May 2007, a concert version on DVD of this chanson celebration was released. Dozens of bests with songs by V. Kalina came out en masse. hundreds of collections with his songs, DVDs with his videos and karaoke of his songs. The Russian Chanson company acquired the rights to publish DVD versions of his videos and the latest concert program “Golden Arrows” - 2007. On September 20, 2006, with the personal participation of the master of literature Viktor Dotsenko, the presentation of the first fiction book by V. took place. Kalina "Generals of Yards". A sequel to this book, “On the Edge,” has been written and should be released soon. His action was published by the company "Zebra-E" and AST in Moscow without literary treatment, which is rare in itself. Victor Kalina wrote more than 350 songs, 200 poems, and two books. He recorded 11 solo albums, DVDs, MP-3s, and shot 10 videos. On December 27, 2006, his wife Svetlana was arrested, and on January 4, 2007, Victor was arrested. After the indictment was brought and the investigation was completed on June 12, 2007, on charges of attempting to commit fraud on an especially large scale, Viktor and Svetlana Kalina were convicted and sentenced: Viktor to five years and six months in a maximum security colony, Svetlana to four years and six months imprisonment with serving the sentence in a general regime colony. Victor still has three children at large, whom he considers the greatest achievement in his life: son - Kalina Christian, born in 1997 (currently being raised by his grandmother in Smolensk), daughter - Kalina Alina, born in 1989, son - Kalina Viktor, born in 1988 . Currently Viktor Kalina is serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 1 in Minsk. People call it "kopek". 220079 Republic of Belarus Minsk St. Kalvariyskaya36 IK - 1st, 12th detachment. The biography was compiled by Victor Kalin’s friends and fans. Autobiography. Victor Kalina Born on February 3, 1968 in Kazakhstan, in a family of virgin lands from Belarus. At the age of 4, he returned with his parents to the city of Borisov, Minsk region. In 1975 I went to school. From the age of seven he mastered playing the guitar, primarily to stand out and assert himself in the eyes of girls. At the same time, my parents, in order to divert me from street crime, sent me to a music school to learn to play the button accordion, and even almost graduated from this school, but sports were more important. Throwing from boxing to wrestling, from hockey to weightlifting, etc. Everything that was easy to give was easy to refuse. After just two months of weightlifting, I became the regional champion, which was boring, of course, although the coach did everything he could to get me back. Finally in cycling, and I would have probably given up on it too if it weren’t for the sports bike that my coach, as an exception, gave me to take home. And whoever had a bicycle in the most criminal and poor district of Borisov was the center of attention. It was in this sport that I became the champion of Belarus and a medalist of the USSR. I studied at school no more than three months a year, and the rest was training camps and competitions. But insane overloads, and this is up to 190 km. and up to eight hours in the saddle a day and trainers’ experiments with chemistry caused the development of a number of diseases, due to which the sport closed its doors to me. But thanks to the fact that I had it, thanks to my coaches at the Youth Sports School, they were my family, they raised me instead of my father and mother. If they didn't exist, there would be a prison. For seven years I was registered in the children's room of the police. The main problems are fights, hooliganism, and, of course, theft of what was in bad shape. But theft has never been a disease; it is something that is completely not inherent in me. This was a means of self-affirmation among comrades, and they were the flowers of the criminal area and in order to be in harmony with them and in authority, you had to do daring and sometimes crazy things. For example, I stole a bicycle from a nearby store on a bet and immediately gave it to the sidekick who lost the bet. I'm more of a bully by nature. I could never understand how you can steal old women’s wallets and poor people’s property acquired in grief, if you can put beautiful shoes on a snickering huckster. Finishing his sports career, he seriously took up karate and hand-to-hand combat, and had to practice his acquired skills in street fights and discos. So he received two years probation for breaking his nose in a fight. Only thanks to sports awards and achievements, as well as the intervention of a coach, did he remain free. But I always had a six-string guitar with me and an insane desire to be the first in everything, so along with my passion for sports I played in various VIAs, graduated from school with a musical focus, and also helped my brother make hacks, he was a bit of a musician - a labukh. He wrote songs and poems from the age of seven. Playing sports, and this was already a serious level in hand-to-hand combat, of course led me to the army special forces. At the dawn of perestroika there were many hot spots and, in one such scrape, he was wounded and was sentenced by doctors to be “committed.” For me, of course, it was a blow. I freaked out about this specifically, even opened my own veins, but the army, like sports, eliminated me once again. I think for these reasons I ended up at war, in the Caucasus, as a “soldier of fortune,” trying to prove something to myself. War is always dirty. With the phalanx of my finger torn off and a concussion, I simply abandoned everything and... from there, we weren’t shooting at sparrows there. Probably, everything taken together was the reason for studying religion, philosophy, parapsychology, and the number of wounds and traumas to comprehend the basics of extreme yoga (walking on coals, piercing oneself with a dozen sharpened knitting needles, driving nails into the nose, etc.). Many elements were included in the Guinness Book of Records. Anything has happened. And on his knees he crawled around the church and beat scoundrels half to death, guarded successful Komsomol members who immediately took possession of all the people's property, and shops, and of course he himself created a brigade of expropriating athletes. ... but all this was not mine. MINE - it was the guitar and songs that I wrote in large quantities. They were like an outlet in my life. The bards did not accept me; I was incomprehensible and harsh to them. The touring club, where he once came and became a four-time champion of the republic in cycling tourism and a prize-winner of the USSR, also did not understand the hooligan leader with a pronounced sense of self-esteem and aggressive justice. Every year criminal cases are opened against me, more often due to excessive self-defense and hooliganism. Once he tortured one fratern so badly that he had to serve three months in a pre-trial detention center and was almost imprisoned. But to steal, I never stole again, and I am proud that I have fed, clothed and put on shoes for myself since I was 10 years old. Well, of course, not counting such shortcomings as troublemakers in the economic sphere, but who doesn’t “sin” with this now? In 1996 he recorded the bard album "Life Goes On". In 1999 - the new album “Wanderer” and the song from this album “I returned from the war” seemed to put an end to my past... but I don’t know whether I returned from the war. I watch our boys fighting in Chechnya on television, and I really want to go there, to join them. There is something there that will never happen in civilian life, but anyone who hasn’t been there and hasn’t experienced it will not understand my reckless desires. They imprisoned my friend, the former Minister of Agriculture, V.S. Leonov. and I wrote several songs dedicated to him on the topic of lack of freedom, and then everything was an accident. By chance I gave it to a Moscow friend, a sound engineer, to listen to, and by chance he gave it to the Russian Chanson company to listen to. Much is accidental, only my songs are not accidental, for everything that is sung in them is either experienced or empathized with. Over the years, he managed to master medicine, even participated in the delivery of his wife Svetlana. Diploma in psychology, treated people, worked as a physical education instructor and hand-to-hand combat trainer. He designed and built three houses, wrote about two hundred songs and recorded 9 chanson albums. The ninth "Golden Arrows" in the Belarusian version was released in May, and in the Russian version it will be published by Soyuz in October 2006. I try to get a buzz from life, and the buzz is when you wake up and your loved one is sleeping peacefully next to you. Or the thrill when, opening your eyes, this person is not nearby, and the aroma of coffee comes from the kitchen. It’s a thrill when you wake up in the morning not on a bunk or in intensive care, but on your own bed. It's a thrill, it's a thrill. If the Lord, for what I did in this life, did not liquidate me with the accidents and catastrophes that I got into, then he needs me for something. I hope he likes what I write and perform. P.S. In 1994 I visited Vanga in Bulgaria. Almost nothing she said came true. This is probably because many people write or rewrite their fate constantly and every second. Try to remain a non-believer under such conditions! Viktor Kalina On June 12, 2007, Viktor Kalina was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale, organizing a knowingly false denunciation and knowingly false testimony, and his wife Svetlana was found guilty of committing fraud on an especially large scale. The verdict against the Kalina couple was announced in the Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk. Victor was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison to be served in a maximum security colony, and his wife Svetlana was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in a general security colony. The spouses' property will also be confiscated. According to the court decision, more than Br90 million will be collectively recovered from Victor and Svetlana Kalina. News from Victor Kalina from prison: Friends, fans and passers-by! I answer the most popular question: “How are you?”: How are you in prison? And a prison is a prison. People are not sent here to improve their health. Creativity helps. I continue to work on the new album “The Snow Queen”. My friend Rashid Nabiev (rah-studio-Moscow) has already done half of it. The album will be ready by October. All songs were written and recorded in places of deprivation. These are the best songs I have written in my 16 year creative life. There are good boys and friends nearby, as well as friends and comrades on the outside. This is what I live by, walking towards the end of my term. I hope to see you soon in freedom, whenever it (freedom) extends its hand to me. Good luck to everyone and sincere gratitude for your support and participation in my life’s endeavor. Yours, Victor Kalina. 09/01/2008

Victor Kalina is a famous Belarusian chanson performer. He was born on February 3 (according to the horoscope Aquarius) 1968 in the city of Arkalyk (Kazakhstan, USSR). Real name: Milko Viktor Vladimirovich.

Victor was born and raised in a very ordinary middle-income family. When Victor turned six years old, his parents decided to move to the city of Borisov, which was located in Belarus. During his entire study period, Victor changed about four schools, but his final choice was a secondary educational institution with a musical focus, which he graduated with particular pleasure. At that time, Victor also studied at a music school, where he mastered playing the button accordion for five years.

In addition, at the age of seven, Victor Kalina was able to independently learn all the intricacies of playing the guitar. But in addition to musical achievements, Victor also succeeded in sports, and more precisely in cycling. In this form, he was able to achieve a lot of success, including becoming the winner of many competitions, as well as receiving the title of candidate master of sports. True, all this did not particularly appeal to the guy and in the end he decides to taste real adrenaline and begins to practice karate, but then goes into hand-to-hand combat. For some time he even engaged in illegal fighting without rules.

Creative path

After serving in the army, Victor begins to actively engage in musical activities. During that period, he often wrote songs, participated in music festivals and repeatedly became the winner of various competitions. In 1999, his album entitled “The Wanderer” was released, which was written in a not entirely familiar style. After a while, he switches to Russian chanson and in the same year decides to change his last name to Kalina. Then he decides to move to Moscow.

Thus, he signs a contract with the “Russian Chanson” company and already in 2001 releases two entire albums called “Clogged Edge” and “Prison Romance”. True, after a while he decides to break the contract with the company, which he later regrets very much. For some period, his career began to slowly but surely decline, until eventually Victor pulled himself together and began releasing his works. So, he is rehabilitated and after a while becomes a very significant figure in the world of chanson.

Relationship

Victor Kalina is married to Svetlana Kalina. In this marriage, three children were born: son Victor, daughter Alina and the youngest son Christian.

In 2006, he went to prison with his wife Svetlana on charges of fraud. Three years later, Victor receives an amnesty and is released from prison.

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Youth

When he was 6 years old, he moved with his parents to the city of Borisov.

He studied at 4 schools, but graduated from only one - with a musical bias. I studied button accordion at a music school for 5 years.
At the age of 7, he taught himself to play the guitar. From the same age he writes poetry and music.

From 10 to 16 years old he was involved in cycling. In this sport, he achieved certain success, becoming a candidate for master of sports, a prize-winner of the USSR, and a champion of the BSSR among youths.

Served in the army. After her, he was engaged in cycling tourism, where he also achieved noticeable results, becoming a four-time champion of the BSSR,
bronze medalist of the USSR, but all this did not seriously interest Victor.

From 16 to 24 years old, he was fond of Kyokushin karate-do, but was seriously involved in hand-to-hand combat. He took part in illegal fights without rules.

He has the title of Master of Sports and 1991 USSR medalist in hand-to-hand combat.

Army

He served in the special forces of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Belarusian SSR. During his service, while suppressing riots in the Baltic states, he received a severe head injury, after which he was discharged.

After finishing his service, he continued to practice hand-to-hand combat, working as a trainer and instructor of hand-to-hand combat in various schools, as well as in military unit 63760. Periodically, while serving under a contract, at the invitation of fellow soldiers, he visited zones of local conflicts in the Caucasus.

After the army

After leaving the military, he became interested in extreme yoga, where he repeated several records included in the Guinness Book. He studied human capabilities - he practiced walking on coals, piercing the body with knitting needles, swords, etc.

He was actively involved in writing songs and participating in art song festivals, where he repeatedly became a laureate and prize-winner.

From 1989 to the present, he has been interested in Eastern philosophy, theosophy, and parapsychology.

During these years, fulfilling the role of his own promoter, he organizes his own concerts and actively tours in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

From 1992 to 2007, engaged in entrepreneurial activities.

Creation

In 1999, his new album “The Wanderer” was released in a style that was uncharacteristic for him. A year later, at the invitation of the producer and owner of the company “Master Sound Rekords - Russian Chanson” Yuri Sevastyanov, he moved into the musical direction “Russian Chanson”. During the same period, he and his family moved to Moscow for permanent residence.

In March 2001, the Russian Chanson company released his first album, written in the Russian Chanson style - “Forgotten Land”.

In the fall of 2001, another album was released - “Prison Romance”.

After some time, Victor terminates the contract with the Russian Chanson company and continues to work as an independent performer and producer.
Later, Viktor Kalina himself realized that breaking the contract with Sevostyanov was a mistake:

After leaving Yuri Sevostyanov, Viktor Kalina’s career began to decline. However, having quickly put things in order, he gets down to business with renewed vigor.

And, from 2002 to 2004 - Victor Kalina writes and releases 4 albums: “Northern Wind” (ArturMusic studio); “Kalina Gorkaya”, “Generals of the Households”, “Woman in Trouble” (Classic company).

He begins his production activities, producing the group of his wife Svetlana “New Murki”, and recording two albums for them.

Things are going so well that it becomes noticeable from the outside. Here is how Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok, one of the masters of the Belarusian stage, spoke about the success of Viktor Kalina:

In the fall of 2004, due to the illness of his son Christian, Victor and his family were forced to return to Minsk.

Victor writes and publishes 3 new albums in 2 years - “Naughty Reveler” (2005), “Old Friends” (2005), “Golden Arrows” (2006). In Russia, these albums and MP3s are released on the Soyuz label. 10 clips are released.

For the first time in the history of the stage, “clip-series” are being filmed: “Old Friends” and “Generals of the Yards”, consisting of 8 clips. These clips occupy the top positions in the charts of a number of satellite Russian-language interactive music channels (“Music-Box”, “First Baltic”, “First Belorussian”, etc.).

Mass production of collections of V. Kalina's best songs, DVDs with clips and karaoke versions of his songs has begun. The Russian Chanson company acquired the rights to publish DVD versions of his videos and the latest concert program “Golden Arrows 2007”.

On September 20, 2006, with the personal participation of the writer Viktor Dotsenko, the presentation of V. Kalin’s first book, “Generals of the Households,” took place. Later a sequel was written - the book “On the Edge”. The rights to publish the book were acquired by the publishing houses “Zebra-E” and “AST”, and without literary processing, which is rare.

Victor Kalina wrote more than 350 songs, 200 poems, and two books. He recorded 11 solo albums, DVDs, MP-3s, and shot 10 videos.

Arrest, trial

On December 27, 2006, Viktor Kalina’s wife, Svetlana Kalina, was arrested, and 8 days later, Viktor himself was arrested. The spouses were charged with attempting to commit fraud on a particularly large scale.

After the charges were brought and the investigation was completed, on December 12, 2007, Viktor and Svetlana Kalina were convicted and sentenced: Viktor - to 5 years 6 months in a maximum security colony, Svetlana - to 4 years 6 months in prison, to be served in a colony general mode.

Victor has three children left at large: the youngest son, Christian, born in 1997, daughter, Alina, born in 1989, and the eldest son, Victor, born in 1988.

Discography

Life Goes On (1996)
Wanderer (1999)
Prison Romance (2001)
Forgotten Land (2001)
North Wind (2002)
Generals of the Courts (2003)
Viburnum bitter ((2003)
Trouble Woman (2004)
Naughty Reveler (2005)
Naughty Girl (2005)
Old Friends (2005)
Volodarka (2006)
Golden Arrows (2006)
Naughty Reveler Re-release (2006)
Volodarka, reissue (2006)
All is unchanged on the love front (2006)
Snow Queen (2009)
Ice Age (2010)
A star named Svetlana (2010)
My Cold Spring (2011)

The future king of chanson, Viktor Kalina, was born an ordinary boy, Vitya Melko. The family lived in Borisov, and it seemed that the very place where they were given living space programmed the future singer and the theme of his work.

Victor Kalina:
We settled in the most criminal and vile swamp at that time.

At the age of 7, Vitya Melko picked up a guitar, and then he began to write his first quatrains, dedicating them to the fair sex. Victor graduated from a specialized music school, practiced yoga and received the title of candidate master of sports in cycling and master of sports in hand-to-hand combat. But at one point he decided to leave professional sports.

Victor Kalina:
There were fights without rules, and at the last competition I received several knockdowns, another concussion, bruises, and fractures. I moved away from this for a very long time and realized: either they will knock my head off and I will become like all the boxers, or I need to take hold of my head.

Victor received higher education twice. He took up alternative medicine, parapsychology, and extreme yoga.

Victor Kalina:
I was a professional acupuncturist. I had offices, a good medical company, I only needed a medical education. I was offered to finish medical school. I graduated from it, my first education is as a paramedic-obstetrician.
I got married quite early, it so happened that I was dating a girl, she became pregnant. Mom said: “It’s not nice and unmanly if you leave her.” So, without love, two children were born very quickly, when I realized that you shouldn’t hold on to something that doesn’t exist, I filed for divorce and we separated.
I also work with astrological charts, I know hand patterns very well, I have a very good command of palmistry, of course, there is an internal and very deep intuition.

Soon Victor got tired of this activity, and the idea came to try himself on the professional stage. In 1994, Viktor Melko divorced his first wife, two weeks later he went on tour to Smolensk, where a fateful meeting took place at one of the concerts.

Svetlana Kalina, Victor's wife:
Victor came to the city with a concert and my mother and I went, it was September 28, 1994, I was 17 years old, on October 28 I turned 18. When I saw him on stage, heard his poems, songs, I realized that I needed him need to.

Victor Kalina:
She grew up among gypsies in a gypsy village, she was told that her husband would be from foreign lands, that his name would be Victor, that she would live in the same marriage with me all her life. She pressed herself close to me and said: “I grew up for you.” The age difference was 9 years. At that moment I immediately felt infatuation, and then love.

Iresisted for a very long time. I asked you to wait a year, and get married. She said: “No, in a year we won’t get married anymore, I feel it. It’s now or never.” And I had only been divorced for 2 weeks at that time. I dreamed that I would be out of wedlock for at least 10 years; it’s not very convenient for an artist to be married at a certain stage. She little by little became everything in my life: wife, lover, mistress, housewife, mother, then she became my director. She slowly started singing, it seemed to work out for her, some projects were made for her.

The career of chanson performer Viktor Kalina gradually took off. Russian companies became interested in him. All this time, Victor and Svetlana were together 24 hours a day, until prison separated them for more than 2 years. A criminal case was opened against Viktor Kalina and his wife; relatives tried to persuade Svetlana not to come to the verdict. She was a Russian citizen and could have avoided imprisonment.

Svetlana Kalina:
I had a choice, but I just couldn’t step over myself, so I didn’t run away, I didn’t run away, I came.

Victor Kalina:
When she came to the verdict, I almost fainted. She came deliberately to sit in the cage, then the two of us were transported in a paddy wagon, the two of us went into the pre-trial detention center, then we were separated by locks, guards, and colonies. It was two and a half years of internal hell.

The feeling of guilt before his beloved was all-consuming, in order not to go crazy, Kalina wrote poetry, letters, and wrote the book “The Diary of a Prisoner.” Victor and Svetlana passed this test together. Prison, of course, changed them: it made them tougher, stronger.

Victor Kalina:
We have been together for 16 years, and once again I catch myself thinking that I am not tired.