Here's a quick and dirty translation of the obituary from
http://www.gazeta.ru:
World-famous conductor, composer, and pianist Evgeny Fedorovich
Svetlanov died in his Moscow apartment on Friday evening at the age
of 74. The news was announced by his relatives.
Evgeny Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1928. He graduated from the
Gnesinykh Musical-Pedagogical Institute and from the Moscow
Conservatory. For several years he was conductor and chief conductor
of the Bolshoi Theatre. From 1965 on he was artistic director and
chief conductor of the State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR. He composed
several symphonies, symphonic poems, chamber music works, and
vocal-instrumental works.
Svetlanov - a "national artist USSR" [that's a big title in the USSR
-MM], laureate of the Lenin Prize - conducted several of the most
famous orchestras in the world.
Press Agency "Novosti".
-Margaret Mikulska