Viktor Arkhipovich Luferov[a] (May 20, 1945 – March 1, 2010) was a Russian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and performer.[1][2][3][4] His songs were examples of the Russian music genre author song.
In the late 1960s, he founded and headed the music ensemble "Osenebri" which existed from 1967 to 1970. In February 1985, he founded the Theater of Song "Perekryostok" (The Crossroads), which nurtured and encouraged many emerging singers. It lasted until 2003 when it was closed for financial reasons. Luferov was a member of the creative association "First Circle" (which at various times included Yury Lores [ru], Alexander Mirzayan, Vladimir Berezhkov [ru], and Mikhail Kochetkov [ru]) and the Association of Russian Bards. He published seven CDs, four of them in the author's seven-disc anthology titled Every hunter wants to know... (Каждый охотник желает знать...).
Viktor Luferov was interested in ethnographic folklore, which reverberated in his musical creations.
