Aleksandr Khvylya
Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, russian: Александр Леопольдович Хвыля, uk, Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля, ''Oleksandr Leopoldovych Khvylya''; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Soviet theater and film actor who played in ''The Diamond Arm'', '' The end of Chyrva Kozyr'', ''Bohdan Khmelnytsky'', and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963). Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem. Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Career In 1922 he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio. Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kyiv. From 1934 until the German invasion of WWII, he worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandr Chvylja In The Liberated Earth
Alexander is a male given name. Alexander may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Films * Alexander (1996 film), ''Alexander'' (1996 film), a Tamil action film * Alexander (2004 film), ''Alexander'' (2004 film), an epic about Alexander the Great directed by Oliver Stone * Alexander (2008 film), ''Alexander'' (2008 film), a Russian historical film about Alexander Nevsky Gaming * Alexander (video game), ''Alexander'' (video game), a real-time strategy game * ''Rome: Total War: Alexander'', a PC game Music * Alexander (soundtrack), ''Alexander'' (soundtrack), the Vangelis score of the 2004 film ''Alexander'' * Alexander (Alex Ebert album), ''Alexander'' (Alex Ebert album), 2011 * Alexander (song), "Alexander" (song), a 2013 song by Rey Pila * "Alexander", a 1971 song by Jeannette van Zutphen Fictional characters * Alexander, a List of Peppa Pig characters, ''Peppa Pig'' character Businesses * Gebr. Alexander, a German manufacturer of musical instruments, founded in 1782 * Alexa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ustym Karmaliuk
Ustym Yakymovych Karmaliuk (also Karmelyuk, uk, Устим Якимович Кармалюк (Кармелюк)) (March 10, 1787 – October 22, 1835) was a Ukrainian outlaw who fought against the Russian administration and became a folk hero to the commoners of Ukraine. He is often referred to as the "Ukrainian Robin Hood" and "the last haydamak". Early life Following the Second Partition of Poland in 1792, a vast territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ceded to the Russian Empire including the eastern Podolia, Podillia. Karmaliuk was born a serf in the settlement of Holovchyntsi in Letychiv County (powiat latyczówski) (in some sources, Lityn County) of the Podolian Voivodeship in 1787. There is little known about his early life except that he possessed some literacy and was fluent in Russian (language), Russian, Polish (language), Polish and Yiddish, besides his native Ukrainian language, as attested by the police documents of the time. He was taken by his owner a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivan Pyryev
Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57)Ирина Гращенкова''Пырьев Иван Александрович,'' Кинобраз. Accessed 18 July 2008. and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry. Life and career Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Altai Krai, Russia). His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in ''The Forest'' («Лес») and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production ''The Mexican''. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film '' Glumov's Diary.'' Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cossacks Of The Kuban
''Cossacks of the Kuban'' () from Mosfilm is a color film, glorifying the life of the farmers in the kolkhoz of the Soviet Union's Kuban region, directed by Ivan Pyryev and starring Marina Ladynina, his wife at that time. (Shown in Paris, 2009) The movie premiered on 26 February 1950. Synopsis The film is set during the early post-war years. In autumn at the inter-collective farm , a dashing Nikolai () gets acquainted with an ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation. The State Stalin Prize ( Государственная Сталинская премия, ''Gosudarstvennaya Stalinskaya premiya''), usually called the Stalin Prize, existed from 1941 to 1954, although some sources give a termination date of 1952. It essentially played the same role; therefore upon the establishment of the USSR State Prize, the diplomas and badges of the recipients of Stalin Prize were changed to that of USSR State Prize. In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War, the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held. Instead, in 1946 the ceremony was held twice: in January for the works created in 1943–1944 and in June for the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Izvestiya
''Izvestia'' ( rus, Известия, p=ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in 1917, it was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and describes itself now as a "national newspaper" of Russia. The word ''izvestiya'' in Russian means "bring news" or "tidings", "herald" (an official messenger bringing news), derived from the verb ''izveshchat'' ("to inform", "to notify"). Origin The newspaper began as the ''News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies'' on in Petrograd. Initially, the paper expressed Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary Party views. In August 1917, it took the title ''News of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies''. By October 1917 it became ''News of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Working and Military Deputies'', and was eventually re-titled ''News of the Soviets of People's Deputies''. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sergei Gerasimov (film Director)
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (russian: Серге́й Апполина́риевич Гера́симов; 21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. The oldest film school in the world, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), bears his name. Early life and education Gerasimov was born on 21 May 1906. Career Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as ''The Overcoat'' and ''The New Babylon''. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's '' The Young Guard'' (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's '' And Quiet Flows the Don'' (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. He also taught acclaimed actor Georgiy Z ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Young Guard (film)
''The Young Guard'' (russian: link=no, Молодая гвардия, translit. Molodaya Gvardiya) is a two-part 1948 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov and based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors. The film was also the highest grossing Soviet film of 1948, with approximately 48,600,000 tickets sold. Synopsis The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic War. Part of the Red Army leaves the mining town Krasnodon. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the Komsomol group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization Young Guard. This organization leads a covert war against the occupation forces; young men spr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vishnyakov
Vishnyakov (russian: Вишняков) and Vishnyakova (russian: Вишнякова; feminine) is a common Russian surname meaning cherry. People with this surname include: * Albert Vishnyakov (b. 1983), a Russian ice hockey player * Aleksey Semyonovich Vishnyakov (1859–1919), a Russian industrialist, founder of the Plekhanov University * Alyaksandr Vishnyakow (b. 1986), a Belarusian footballer * Georgy Vishnyakov (1871–unknown), Russian sports shooter, competitor in the 1912 Summer Olympics * Ivan Vishnyakov (1699–1761), a Russian painter * Konstantin Vishnyakov Konstantin Vishnyakov (born March 6, 1982) is a Russian canoe racing, sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two bronze medals in the K-4 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in 2006 ICF ... (b. 1982), a Russian sprint canoer * Igor Vishnyakov , a Russian photographer References See also * Vishniac (other) {{Surname Russian-languag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Red Necktie
''Red Necktie'' (russian: Красный галстук) is a 1948 Soviet film directed by Mariya Sauts and Vladimir Sukhobokov. Plot The film tells about a young man, Shura Badekine, whose father died as a result of the war and now Shura lives in the family of the director of the Vishnyak plant. The children of Vishnyak study well at school and have wonderful relations with each other, but one of them, Valery, shows selfishness and arrogance and once ceases to wear a pioneer tie. Shura Badekin condemned Valery's act on the council of the detachment, and Valery in turn, called Shura a traitor. Starring * Aleksandr Khvylya as Vishnyakov (as A.Khvylya) * Galina Stepanova as Nadezhda Ivanovna (as G. Stepanova) * Vera Okuneva as Grandmother (as V. Okuneva) * Vitali Doronin as Kochubei (as V. Doronin) * Nikolay Bogatyryov as Young Pioneer organizer (as N. Bogatyryov) * as Valeri Vishnyakov (as Shura Sokolov) * Irina Nachinkina as Marina Vishnyakova (as Ira Nachinkina) * Vyach ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Semyon Budyonny
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonnyy ( rus, Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bʊˈdʲɵnːɨj, a=ru-Simeon Budyonniy.ogg; – 26 October 1973) was a Russian cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Born to a poor peasant family from the Don Cossack region in southern Russia, Budyonny was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1903. He served with distinction in a dragoon regiment during the First World War, earning all four classes of the Cross of St. George. When the Russian Civil War broke out Budyonny founded the Red Cavalry, which played an important role in the Bolshevik victory; Budyonny became renowned for his bravery and was the subject of several popular patriotic songs. As a political ally of Joseph Stalin, he became one of the original five Marsha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Vow (1946 Film)
''The Vow'' (russian: Клятва, Klyatva) is a 1946 Soviet film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. It is considered a representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality. Plot summary In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, begins carrying a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him about Kulak brigands roaming the land and spreading death and misery. The Kulaks murder him. His widow, Varvara, continues his quest, joining a group that travels to Moscow. When they arrive, they discover that Lenin is dead. In the Kremlin, Vyacheslav Molotov tells Anastas Mikoyan that now, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin will attempt to subvert the party by attacking Stalin, Lenin's devout disciple. Stalin, mourning his teacher's passing, delivers a eulogy at the funeral, calling for all attendants and all the people of the Soviet Union to vow to maintain Lenin's legacy. The people swear. Varvara sees Stalin and hands him over the blood-stained letter, marked ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |