High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin (Russian: Александр Лазаревич Локшин) (1920 – 1987) was a Russian composer of classical music. He was born on September 19, 1920, in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on June 11, 1987.