Alemdar Karamanov (10/09/1934 - 03/05/2007), a Russian composer, born in Simferopol. He studied at the Crimean Music College in Simferopol and then at the Moscow State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (1953-1958) as a composition student of Prof. S. Bogatyrjov (which also was professor at the Kharkiv Arts Institute (Ukraine), and one of founders of the Kharkiv composers' school) and as a piano student of Prof. V. Natanson. There he completed his post-graduate studies as a composition student of Prof. D. Kabalevsky and Prof. T. Khrennikov (1958-1964, with interruptions). He aimed at appropriating and managing technical achievements of the Western Avant-Garde and uniting them with the Russian, “Russian Oriental”(with Crimean motives) and Soviet musical traditions.