State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR

The USSR State Jazz Band (or the State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR, Russian: Государственный джаз-оркестр СССР) was a Soviet jazz band that existed in 1930s–1940s.

After it was auditioned by Joseph Stalin in 1938, a number of similar state-sponsored musical ensembles were created across the country.

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