Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow in 1953, having returned permanently to the USSR from the west in 1935. His death - on March 5 1953 - was on the very same day that soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died.
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Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow in 1953 from cerebral hemorrhage. He was 61 or 62 years old when he died.
Sergey Prokofiev died March 5, 1953. Ironically, Stalin died the same day, fifty-five minutes later.