Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov (b Bogodukhov, 9/18 Oct 1901; d Moscow, 13 July 1956) was a Russian composer. He studied at the Rostov Conservatory. His long term connection with the Pyatnitsky Russian State National Choir gave him many chances composing choral music. Most of his songs are in peasant way. Even sometime later, no one can tell whether one of his famous song was a composition or an arrangement of a folk piece.[1]
In 1920s, he and other composers formed the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) and became an active member of this association.
In 1948 he was appointed one of the Principal Secretaries of Soviet Union of Composers. He was an active figure in the persecution on "formalist" composers. Those who were denounced by him include Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khatchaturian, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli.[2]