Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных
Olga Arefieva (Arefeva) (born 1966 in Verkhnyaya Salda) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician. She graduated from Gnessin State Musical College (her teacher was Lev Leshchenko), founded band "Kovcheg" ("The Ark"), composed more than 400 songs, issued 15 music albums, and won the literary prize of the magazine "Znamya" for her poems.