Georgy Nosov was a Soviet composer, born on April 15, 1911, in Yudino to a peasant family who had moved from Ukraine. He became interested in music as a child and began studying at the Tchaikovsky Sverdlovsk Music College in 1930, where Markian Frolov and Vasily Zolotaryov taught him. In 1932 he moved to Leningrad, continued his studies at the preparatory workers’ faculty with Mikhail Chulaki, and then studied composition with Mikhail Yudin at the Leningrad State Conservatory.
Nosov began writing songs in Sverdlovsk. In Leningrad he worked in several musical genres, though songs remained his main focus. His works included the unfinished opera Varya Stroeva, based on a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg, and the operetta The Whims of Jealousy, written with Pavel Feldt in 1947. Other works included the cantata City on the Neva, the poem Iron Stream, and the ballad The Unknown Soldier’s Grave.
After the war, Nosov wrote a series of lyrical songs. Many of his songs used words by the Leningrad poet Alexander Churkin, with whom he had a close creative partnership. Galina Vishnevskaya recorded Nosov’s song At the Rowan Tree in 1949. His cantata City on the Neva received an award in a 1945 competition held by the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Composers. In 1957 he was named an Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Nosov died in Leningrad on August 27, 1970, and was buried at Novo-Volkovskoye Cemetery.