Vasili Vinogradov

Vasili (or Vasily) Ivanovich Vinogradov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Виногра́дов, ; 1874–1948) was an ethnically Russian Tatar opera composer, violinist and pedagogue, awarded as a TASSR Honoured Worker of Culture in 1944.

In collaboration with Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev and Soltan Ğäbäşi he composed the first Tatar-language operas, Saniä (1925) and Eşçe (The Worker, 1930).

Vinogradov also composed many symphonic concertos, based on traditional Tatar and Bashkir music, music for dramatic plays, arrangement of folk music.