Sergey Nikitin graduated from the
Physics Department of
Moscow State University in 1968. After completing postgraduate studies at the department of Biophysics at Moscow State University, he worked as a researcher in Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow (1971–1980). In 1980–1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics in
Pushchino and received a PhD in Physics in 1983. Nikitin wrote music to his first song,
En route (lyrics by
Iosif Utkin), in 1962. In 1963, he founded an all-male
quartet in the Department of Physics at Moscow State University, together with Sergey Smirnov,
Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later
Vadim Khait. From 1968 to 1977, he appeared at numerous concerts, together with other members of his
quintet, including his wife,
Tatyana Nikitina, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin. In 1987–1995, he was Musical Director at the
Oleg Tabakov Studio-Theater in Moscow, and became a full-time singer and composer since 1995. Sergei and his wife Tatyana are very close friends of and, beginning in 2002, the three of them provided funding to improve the
Smolensk Special School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Children () The waltz by Nikitin "Aleksandra" is similar to the famous Loca de Amor by Rodolfo Biagi. ==Awards==