Viktor Klimenko

Person · Open Library

Born

1941

Died

2010

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Finland

Active from

1942-11-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,960

Total plays

29,677

Viktor Klimenko (born November 24, 1942) is a singer who made himself known as the "Singing Cossack". A few years after his birth in Karelia his family moved to Finland, where he became a noted musician and also appeared in several films, mostly playing himself. The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was his first appearance outside of Finland. He didn't earn any points for his song, mostly because judges didn't like the lyrics. In 1970, only five years later <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Viktor

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

2. A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo

   · 1951 · cited 10,392x

3. THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF SUBSTANCES WITH SIMULTANEOUSLY NEGATIVE VALUES OF $\epsilon$ AND μ

   · 1968 · cited 9,461x

4. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

5. Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids

   · 2003 · cited 6,580x

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Viktor

Gender

male

Citizenship

Finland

Place of birth

Karelia

Occupation

actor

Languages spoken

Finnish

Participant in

Eurovision Song Contest 1965

Genre

gospel music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Philips Records

Official website

www.viktorklimenko.com

Image

Viktor Klimenko.jpg

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