Boris Fomin

Boris Ivanovitch Fomin (Борис Иванович Фомин) born 1900 in Saint Petersburg and died in 1948 in Moscow) was a Russian composer of folk music. He was interred at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

The song called Endless Road, actually called Dorogoi dlinnoyu (Russian: Дорогой длинною), commonly known for its English version Those Were the Days, was composed by Boris Fomin and first interpreted by Alexander Vertinsky [1].