1. Pages of the autograph of the song “The best city on earth”
2. It may seem that in the father’s work everything went smoothly, without any problems. However, he often got hit hard by critics and not only. Once on the radio the first Soviet twist “The best city on earth” sounded on the verses of Leonid Derbenev, performed by Magomayev, and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev heard this song. He was extremely indignant: “How is the twist?! Yes, and about Moscow?! Ban it immediately!!!” True, after some time Khrushchev himself was sent into retirement, and in an interview M. Magomayev recalled that at a meeting with the editors of the radio he said: “Babajanyan and I did our job: Khrushchev was removed from work. Now it’s up to you to get that song back on the air.”
Ara BABADJANYAN