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Nikolai Kryukov (actor)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Крю́ков; 8 July 1915 – 17 April 1993) was a Soviet film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1991).Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 13 мая 1991 г. «О присвоении почётного звания Заслуженный артист РСФСР артистам кино» Biography Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov was born on July 8, 1915, in Zamytye, a village in Tver province, USSR. Both of his parents were farmers. Young Kryukov was fond of silent films. In 1930, he decided to become an actor and moved to Leningrad. During the 1930s he was industrial worker at the Sevkabel plant in Leningrad. At that time he also attended acting classes at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad, graduating in 1935 as an actor. From 1936 - 1941 he was permanent member of the troupe with E. Radlov's theatre, then at Lensoveta Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tver Governorate
Tver Governorate (russian: Тверская губерния, ''Tverskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a ''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Tver. The governorate was located in the center of the European part of the Russian Empire and bordered Novgorod Governorate in the north, Yaroslavl Governorate in the east, Vladimir Governorate in the southeast, Moscow Governorate in the south, Smolensk Governorate in the southwest, and Pskov Governorate in the west. The area of the governorate is currently split between Tver Oblast, Tver and Moscow Oblasts. Minor parts of Tver Governorate also currently belong to Yaroslavl Oblast, Yaroslavl and Novgorod Oblasts. History In the 18th century, the areas which were later occupied by Tver Governorate were split between Moscow Governorate, Moscow and Novgorod Governorates. On 25 November 1775 Tver Viceroyalt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). In 2017, it was named the European Region of Gastronomy. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strong With Spirit
''Strong with Spirit'' (russian: Сильные духом, Silnye dukhom) is a 1967 Soviet spy film directed by Viktor Georgiyev based on a screenplay by Anatoli Grebnev and Aleksandr Lukin. It tells the story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov. The picture was the 26th most attended domestic film in the Soviet Union. Plot The film is about the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov. Cast * Gunārs Cilinskis as Nikolai Kuznetsov / Paul Zibert (dubbed by Aleksandr Belyavsky) * Ivan Pereverzev as Dmitry Medvedev * Yevgeni Vesnik as Voronchuk, agent * Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Galya * Yuri Solomin as Mayor Gettel * Vija Artmane as Lidia Lisovskaya * Victoria Fyodorova as Valentina Dovger * Aleksandr Galevsky as Prikhodko * Yuri Bogolyubov as Belotinsky * Yuri Volkov as Ortel * Daniil Netrebin as mayor * Paul Butkevich as Kaminsky * Andrei Fajt as count Gran * Pyotr Sobolevsky as hauptmann * Anatoli Romashin Anatoli Vladimirovich Romashin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andromeda Nebula
''The Andromeda Nebula'' (russian: Туманность Андромеды) is a 1967 Soviet science fiction film starring Sergei Stolyarov and directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. The film was originally intended to be the first episode of a series of films, alternatively titled as ''The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star'', but the remaining parts were never made due to Stolyarov's death. Plot The film is based upon the 1957 novel '' Andromeda Nebula'' by Ivan Yefremov. It follows the story of a group of humans on the spaceship ''Tantra'' who are tasked with investigating the home planet of an alien race. They discover that artificial radioactivity has killed almost all life on that planet. During the voyage home the ship is trapped by the gravitational force of an iron star and lands on a planet orbiting the star. Surrounded by predators who destroy human nervous system through space suits, the crew has to fight to see Earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clean Ponds (film)
, image = Clean Ponds Russian poster.jpg , caption = Russian poster , director = Aleksey Sakharov , producer = , writer = , starring = , music = Yury Levitin , cinematography = Leonid Kalashnikov , editing = Antonina Zimina , released = 1965 , studio= Mosfilm , runtime = 81 min. , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''Clean Ponds'' (russian: Чистые пруды, Chistye prudy) is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksey Sakharov. Plot The film tells about four friends who grew up on clean ponds, not even suspecting that they would become participants in the war. Cast * Aleksandr Zbruyev as Sergei * Tamara Syomina as Anna * Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Katya * Lyudmila Gladunko as Zhenya * Yevgenia Filonova as Nina * Vladimir Yevstafyev as Os'ka * Nina Agapova as Kul'chitskaya * Nikolai Kryukov as Rzhanov * Nina Menshikova as Sergei's mother * Vyacheslav Nevinny Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny (russian: link=no, Вячесла́ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Trip Without A Load
''A Trip Without a Load'' (russian: Порожний рейс, Porozhniy reys) is a 1962 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. Plot A young novice Muscovite journalist, Pavel Sirotkin, (Aleksandr Demyanenko) is assigned to write an article on the editorial board of the northern timber industry driver, leading toiler Nikolay Khromov (Georgi Yumatov). Ending up in the harsh winter conditions of work and life, at first Sirotkin by chance is confronted with merely with negative developments, and then with outright fraud in the timber industry. Front-rank Khromov is a shrewd operator who deftly manipulates the mileage account, and the company's director Akim Sevastyanovich (Anatoliy Papanov) is a cunning and resourceful chief for whom implementation of the plan at any price is a principle of leadership. The journalist is to choose between precise execution of the assigned task or sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Soil Upturned (1959 Film)
''Virgin Soil Upturned'' (russian: Поднятая целина, Podnyataya tselina) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov. Based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel. Plot The film takes place in the 1930s. The film tells about the worker Davydov, who is sent to the Cossack farm to help the Don Cossacks transition to collective forms of farming and tries to organize a collective farm there by their own methods, coming into conflict with the leader of the local party. Cast * Pyotr Chernov as Semyon Davydov * Yevgeny Matveyev as Makar Nagulnov * Fyodor Shmakov as Andrey Razmyotnov * Vladimir Dorofeyev as Grandpa Shchukar * Lyudmila Khityaeva as Lushka * Pyotr Glebov as Aleksandr Polovtsev * Viktor Chekmaryov as Yakov Ostrovnov * Iosif Kutyansky as Kondrat Maydannikov * Leonid Kmit as Grigoriy Bannik * Oleg Yaroshenko as Timofey Rvanyy * Andrei Abrikosov as the blacksmith Ippolit Sidorovich Shaly * Nikolay Kryuchkov as Ustin Mikhailovich Rykalin * Yevgeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Inch
''The Last Inch'' (russian: Последний дюйм, Posledniy dyuym) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Teodor Vulfovich. It is based on an eponymous short story by James Aldridge published in the USSR in 1957, and in London in 1960. Plot The film is about an unemployed Ben Ensley, a professional pilot, who decides to take dangerous underwater photographs to make money, and goes with his son Davy (who begged him to come along) to the distant Shark Bay. While taking the pictures, Ben gets bitten by a shark and bleeds heavily. The only chance for him to survive is to fly back to the small African town they set off from. Davy carries his father into the plane and then follows his instructions to take off from the island and follow the route back. But the most complicated and dangerous part of the flight is the landing. Ben Ensley, who's half-conscious from loss of blood, instructs his son about the last inch that he must feel when landing a plane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ships Storm Bastions
Attack from the Sea (russian: Корабли штурмуют бастионы, Korabli shturmuyut bastiony) is a 1953 Soviet biographical war film directed by Mikhail Romm and starring Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadi Yudin and Vladimir Druzhnikov.Rollberg p.249 The film is about the career of the Russian naval officer Fyodor Ushakov and the Siege of Corfu (1798–99). It was made by the Moscow-based Ministry of Cinematography by the production unit Mosfilm, in Agfa-color, renamed Sovcolor by Moscow. It is the sequel to ''Admiral Ushakov'', released the same year. Cast * Ivan Pereverzev as Adm. Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov * Gennadi Yudin as Capt. Dmitri Nikolayevich Senyavin * Vladimir Druzhnikov as Capt. Vasilyev * Aleksey Alekseev as Capt. Yegor Metaksa * Sergei Bondarchuk as Tikhon Alexeyevich Prokofiev * Nikolai Khryashchikov as Khovrin, old sailor * Mikhail Pugovkin as Piroshkov * Georgiy Yumatov as Ermolaev * Vladimir Balashov as Capt. Grigori Belli * Pavel Volko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serafimovskoe Cemetery
Serafimovskoe Cemetery (russian: Серафимовское кладбище) is a historic cemetery in northwestern Saint Petersburg, in Primorsky District. It was established to meet the need for the growing population in the early twentieth century. The first burial took place in 1905, and the cemetery church, the , was consecrated in 1907. The cemetery was primarily a burial place for the poor, until the Second World War. During the siege of Leningrad, from 1941 to 1944, it was one of the main sites for burying those who were killed, or died of cold or starvation. At least 100,000 people were buried during this period, mostly in mass graves. The cemetery expanded after the war, and today covers 59 hectares. It contains the graves of a wide range of society, including military figures, and prominent people from the arts, sciences and sports. History By the late nineteenth century population growth in the Staraya Derevnya area, formerly on the outskirts of the city, was puttin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, and leg swelling. The shortness of breath may occur with exertion or while lying down, and may wake people up during the night. Chest pain, including angina, is not usually caused by heart failure, but may occur if the heart failure was caused by a heart attack. The severity of the heart failure is measured by the severity of symptoms during exercise. Other conditions that may have symptoms similar to heart failure include obesity, kidney failure, liver disease, anemia, and thyroid disease. Common causes of heart failure include coronary artery disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, excessive alcohol consumption, infection, and cardiomyopathy. These cause heart failure by altering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
