The singer, Honored Artist of Russia, Yaroslav Evdokimov, died. This was announced on his Facebook page by his wife Irina Kropyvnytskaya, publicist Oleg Kashin paid attention to this.

According to her, Evdokimov died on the morning of August 22. In an interview with TASS, the woman clarified that lung cancer became the cause of death. The singer was 78 years old.
“The not recorded song that he had to write in the near future remained. But I did not have time. He lived for the sake of the scene, for the sake of the audience. He respected them very much and loved them. All the words that people wrote in social networks supported him very much, ” said Kropyvnytskaya MSK1.ru.
Yaroslav Evdokimov - Soviet, Belarusian and Russian singer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. The most fame was to him by the song “Fantaser”, with which he first performed in 1989. The words to her were written by the Soviet poet Sergei Romanov, the author of the compositions “My blue pigeon” and “White Night”.
In 2017, Evdokimov accused the Russian authorities and Vladimir Putin of unleashing war in Ukraine.