| Mark Minkov | |
| Honorific Suffix: | PAR (2003) |
| Native Name: | Марк Минков |
| Native Name Lang: | rus |
| Birth Name: | Mark Anatolievich Minkov |
| Birth Date: | 25 November 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Death Place: | Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Occupation: | Music composer |
| Instrument: | Piano |
| Years Active: | 1964–2012 |
Mark Anatolievich Minkov (ru|Марк Анатольевич Минков; 25 November 1944 – 29 May 2012) was a Soviet and Russian music composer.[1] His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films.
He composed the scores for more than a hundred cinema and television films, including Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1985), We Are from Jazz (1983) and Neznayka with Our Court (1983).
On May 29, 2012 Mark Minkov died at the age of 68. He was buried at Vostryakovsky cemetery.[2]
Minkov was born in Moscow, USSR. He attended the Merzlyakovki Conservatory School where he studied composition under Nikolay Sidelnikov.[3] He then studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory in 1964.[3] [4]
A song by Minkov based on the lyrics Invisible struggle (translit. Nezrimiy Boi - If somebody, somewhere among us, sometimes...) by Anatoly Gorokhov is featured in almost all the series. It became an unofficial hymn of the Soviet Militia. In 2001, he was awarded the MVD Russian Interior Ministry award for the music theme to the Sledstvie vedut znatoki.
He was married to Galina Andreevna Minkova. Son is Andrey (born 1975).