Boris Krasin

Boris Krasin (18??–21 June 1936) was a Russian musician who was politically active in Proletkult and the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians.
Krasin was head of the Moscow Proletkult's Music Department in which capacity he claimed that the music provided in restaurants and cabarets was anti-art.
He was one of the founders of the Union of Composers and joined Alexei Ogolevets to found the Autonomous Research Section (ANTES) of this organisation in Moscow, which played a major role in the research and development of electronic musical instruments.