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Vadim Alekseyevich Kozin, born on March 21, 1903 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, was a Soviet and Russian tenor and songwriter. Raised in a musical household, Kozin began his professional singing career in the 1920s and gained immediate success. He moved to Moscow in the 1930s and collaborated with accompanist David Ashkenazi. During World War II, Kozin served in the entertainment brigade, singing for Soviet troops. In 1944, he was sentenced to five years in jail due to his homosexuality, which had become a crime in the USSR, and was sent to the Magadan labour camps. Despite being released in 1950, he never fully returned to his career, deeply traumatized by his prison sentence. In 1993, Marc Almond included songs from Kozin's repertoire on his album Heart on Snow. Kozin died at the age of 91 in 1994.