leonid mikhailovich kharitonov () (18 september 1933 – 19 september 2017) was a russian bass-baritone (баритональный бас) singer. he was honoured with people's artist of russia and honoured artist of russia. in other parts of europe, he was noted for his 1965 video of the "song of the volga boatmen". he was born in irkutsk, soviet union.