Russian viola player Dmitry Shebalin has died at the age of 83. He is expeically known as a member of the Borodin Quartet. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1953 he became a member of the Borodin Quartet (then still called Moscow Philharmonic Quartet). Shebalin retired from the quartet in 1996, but continued to teach at the Moscow Conservatory, where he had been a professor since 1969.