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Birth Name: Никола́й Ива́нович Ва́син
Born: 24 August 1945 Died: 29 August 2018
Country of origin: 
Russian Federation
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Nikolai Ivanovich "Kolya" Vasin was a Russian music historian, writer, one of the main popularizers of the Beatles' creative work inside the USSR and Russia, collector who became prominent in the Soviet Union for collecting Beatles memorabilia.
He first came into contact with Beatles music via bootleg records in 1964. In 1970, Vasin entered into correspondence with John Lennon, and was said to be the only Soviet citizen to do so. Vasin amassed a large collection of Beatles memorabilia and turned his apartment into an impromptu museum. He campaigned for greater recognition of the Beatles and rock musicians in Russia,
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