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National Philharmonic of Russia

Russian orchestra

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ843792 ↗
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The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia (NPR) is an orchestra founded in January 2003 on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Ministry of Culture. Serving as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the orchestra is Vladimir Spivakov. The NPR currently resides at the Moscow International House of Music.

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“National Philharmonic of Russia” enters the record as russian orchestra. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Philharmonic and Russia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q843792. VIAF identifies the subject as 141521721. The Library of Congress control number is no2005116587. 5 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Philharmonic of Russia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.