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Brezhnev (film)
''Brezhnev'' (Russian: ) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. The movie was an expensive period piece partly filmed in the Kremlin. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev. Cast *Sergey Shakurov as Leonid Brezhnev * Artur Vakha as Leonid Brezhnev (young) * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Viktoria Brezhneva * Marina Solopchenko as Viktoria Brezhneva (young) *Sergei Garmash as Stepan Kandaurov *Valeri Zolotukhin as huntsman Igor *Vasily Lanovoy as Yuri Andropov *Vadim Yakovlev as Andrei Gromyko *Igor Yasulovich as Mikhail Suslov * Valery Ivchenko as Nikolai Tikhonov * Yuriy Kuzmenkov as Nikolai Podgorny *Vladimir Menshov as Dmitry Ustinov *Lev Prygunov as Yevgeniy Chazov *Aleksandr Filippenko as Georgy Tsinyov *Vyacheslav Shalevich as Alexei Kosygin * Afanasy Kochetkov as Konstantin Chernenko * Sergei Losev as Nikita Khrushchev *Igor Ivanov as Alexander Shelepin *Igor Ch ...
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Sergey Snezhkin
Sergey may refer to: * Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name) * Sergey, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland * ''Sergey'' (wasp), a genus in subfamily Doryctinae The Doryctinae or doryctine wasps are a large subfamily of braconid parasitic wasps (Braconidae). Numerous genera and species formerly unknown to science are being described every year. This subfamily is presumably part of a clade containing o ...
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Andrei Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (russian: Андрей Андреевич Громыко; be, Андрэй Андрэевіч Грамыка;  – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet communist politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s Western pundits called him ''Mr Nyet'' ("Mr No") or "Grim Grom", because of his frequent use of the Soviet veto in the United Nations Security Council. Gromyko's political career started in 1939 in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (renamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946). He became the Soviet ambassador to the United States in 1943, leaving that position in 1946 to become the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Moscow he became a Deputy Minister of For ...
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Vyacheslav Shalevich
Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich (russian: Вячесла́в Анато́льевич Шале́вич; 27 May 1934 – 21 December 2016) was a Soviet-Russian film, theatre actor and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Biography Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich was born in Moscow in 1934.Вячеслав Шалевич - Биография - Актеры советского и российского кино
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His father, Anatoly Shalevich, defected to the Red Army and rose to the rank of General of the . Vyacheslav believed his father had died in the Finnish war. Vyacheslav Anatolievich Sh ...
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Georgy Tsinyov
Georgy may refer to: *Georgy (given name) *Diminituve for Georgina *Georgy, the protagonist in ''Georgy Girl'' novel, film, and song * ''Georgy'' (musical), a musical from the novel ''Georgy Girl'' See also *Georgi (other) *Georgiy, a given name *Georgii (other) Georgii may refer to: ;Given name *Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin *Georgii Karpechenko (1899–1941) Russian and Soviet biologist *Georgii Frederiks (1889–1938), Russian geologist *Georgii Zeliony (187 ...
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Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko (russian: links=no, Александр Георгиевич Филиппенко; born September 2, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography He was born in Moscow. His parents moved to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later on he entered MIPT where he took active part in MFTI KVN team. The first time he appeared on stage at the MSU Variety Studio ''Our Home'' in a stage adaptation of Kersanov's ''Story of Tsar Emelian''. Since 1969 Filippenko was a key member of ''Taganka Theater''. In 1970 he entered Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated with honors. In 1975 he started working at ''Vakhtangov Theater'' where he took part in famous plays "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" (Брестский Мир) "Richard III" and many others. There he met, worked with and became good friends with director Robert Sturua. Filippenko left Vakhtangov Theater in 1994 and started his own theatrical pro ...
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Yevgeniy Chazov
Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov (russian: Евгений Иванович Чазов; 10 June 1929 – 12 November 2021) was a physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Chief of the Fourth Directorate of the ministry of health, academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a recipient of numerous awards and decorations, Soviet, Russian, and foreign. Biography Chazov was born in 1929. He was a graduate of the Kiev Medical Institute. Following his graduation he worked as a clinic surgeon, and later joined the research institute of therapy of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. He served as a managing director of the A. L. Myasnikov Research Institute. Chazov was the director of the Moscow cardiological center since 1976. It is one of the largest such centers in the world, comprising 10 separate institutes. As the chief of the fourth directorate of the Ministry of Health, which took care of Soviet leaders, he was wi ...
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Lev Prygunov
Lev Georgievich Prygunov (russian: Лев Гео́ргиевич Прыгуно́в; born 23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian actor, painter, People's Artist of Russia (2013). His son is a Russian film director . After graduation, he studied for two years at the biological faculty of the Alma-Ata Pedagogical Institute. In 1962 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (Tatyana Georgievna Soinikova's course). Filmography * 1962 – Shore Leave * 1964 – Attack and Retreat * 1965 – I Am Twenty * 1965 – Children of Don Quixote * 1965 – Going Inside a Storm * 1969 – Bonivur's Heart * 1970 – Between the High Bread * 1970 – Chetirimata ot Vagona * 1970 – Liberation * 1975 – How the Steel Was Tempered * 1976 – Fatherless * 1977 – Born to Revolution * 1978 – The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya * 1979 – Search Wind * 1979 – Shot in the Back * 1980 – Dangerous Friends * 1983 – Love. Waiting. Lena * 1983 – Anxiou ...
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Dmitry Ustinov
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (russian: Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984. Ustinov was born in the city of Samara to a Russian working-class family in 1908. Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the Communist Party in 1927 before pursuing a career in engineering. After graduating from the Institute of Military Mechanical Engineering in 1934, he became a construction engineer at the Leningrad Artillery Marine Research Institute. By 1937, he transferred to the Bolshevik "Arms" Factory where he ultimately rose to become the director. While serving as People's Commissar of Armaments during World War II, he achieved distinction within the party's ranks by succ ...
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Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)Умер Владимир Меньшов
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was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Although Menshov mostly worked as an actor, he is better known for the films he directed, especially for the 1979 melodrama ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova.


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Nikolai Podgorny
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, ''Mykola Viktorovych Pidhornyy'' rus, Никола́й Ви́кторович Подго́рный, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ pɐdˈgornɨj, links=yes ( – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka in 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy. By 1953, Podgorny became Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1953 before later serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to 1963. In October ...
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Yuriy Kuzmenkov
Yuriy Alexandrovich Kuzmenkov (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Кузьменко́в; 16 February 1941 – 11 September 2011) was a Soviet-Russian screen and stage actor. He was known for portraying working class and military people. He was awarded the Honored Artist of Russia (1980). Early life Kuzmenkov was born and grew up in Moscow. He came from a working-class family. His father was a metal worker and his mother was a hairdresser. Upon graduating high school, Kuzmenkov went to trade school to become a metal lathe operator. He got work in a factory but found that he enjoyed acting and took part in amateur performances at his workplace. As his passion for acting increased, he went to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre. Career After graduation in 1964, he stayed on at the Mossovet as a member of the acting troupe. Kuzmenkov made his screen debut in 1963 in the Soviet film ''In the Name of the Revolution''. He rose to f ...
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Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (russian: Николай Александрович Тихонов; ukr, Микола Олександрович Тихонов; – 1 June 1997) was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980. Tikhonov was responsible for the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late era of stagnation. He was replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985 by Nikolai Ryzhkov. In the same year, he lost his seat in the Politburo; however, he retained his seat in the Central Committee until 1989. He was born in the city of Kharkiv in 1905 to a Russian-Ukrainian working-class family; he graduated in the 1920s and started working in the 1930s. Tikhonov began his political career in local industry, and worked his way up the hierarchy of ...
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