{{short description|Russian conductor (born 1949)}} thumb|Valery Polyansky in May 2019 '''Valery Kuzmich Polyansky''' (Russian: ''Валерий Кузьмич Полянский''; born April 19, 1949, in Moscow) is a Russian orchestral and choral conductor. He is a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of Russia (1996),<ref name=Ukaz1995>{{cite web|title=УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства 1995 года|url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=76959&PSC=1&PT=1&Page=3|language=ru|page=3|access-date=28 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101001110/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=76959&PSC=1&PT=1&Page=3|archive-date=1 November 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> artistic director, chief conductor and founder of the State Symphony Capella of Russia.

== Biography == Polyansky was born at April 19, 1949 in Moscow.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Полянский, Валерий Кузьмич |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/polyanskiy-valeriy-kuzmich |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=ТАСС |language=ru}}</ref>

He studied at the Academic Music College at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, graduating in 1967. Then he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.<ref name=":0" />

==Awards and honours== *Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989)<ref name=":0" /> *State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and the arts in 1995<ref name="Ukaz1995" /> *People's Artist of Russia (1996)<ref name=":0" /> *Order of Honour (1999)<ref name=":0" /> *Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", III and IV degrees (2019, 2007)<ref name=":0" /> *{{Interlanguage link multi|Order of Saint Sergius of Radonezh|qid=Q3355529}}

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060512052630/http://www.studiomusica.net/eng/artisti/russcapel_s.htm Biography] {{S-start}} {{s-bef|before=Gennady Rozhdestvensky}} {{s-ttl|title=Principal Conductors, State Symphony Capella of Russia|years=1992–present}} {{s-inc}} {{S-end}}

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