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The Vyborg Side
''The Vyborg Side'' (russian: Выборгская сторона, Vyborgskaya storona) is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. The film was also released in the United States under the title ''New Horizons''. Background The Vyborg Side is a traditional industrial area in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on the right bank of the River Neva delta. It is named because of its situation at the start of the road to Vyborg, a formerly important city taken from Swedish empire by Russian army under Peter I in early 18 century during the Great Northern War and securing the existence of Russia's new capital Saint Petersburg. The Vyborg Side was filled with industrial enterprises of different complexity, producing sugar, textiles, timber and later, since the 19th century, many kinds of heavy industry products. There were factories e.g. by Ericsson and the Nobel family. Working and liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (russian: link=no, Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1971 he was the President of the Jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Grigori Kozintsev was born in the family of a doctor, therapist and pediatrician Moisei Isaakovich Kozintsov (1859–1930) and his wife Anna Grigorievna Lurie was from a rabbinical family from Kyiv. His mother's sister was the gynecologist and scientist-physician Rose G. Lurie. The mother's brother was the dermatologist Alexander G. Lurie (1868–1954), a professor and chair of venereal skin diseases at the Kyiv Postgraduate Medical Institute (1919–1954). The parents were mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Family
The Nobel family ( , ) is a prominent Swedes, Swedish and Russians, Russian family closely related to the history both of Sweden and of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and to the development of the armament industry and of the oil industry. Some of its foremost members are Immanuel Nobel, the younger, engineer developer of underwater naval mines and inventor of the rotary lathe used to produce plywood, Ludvig Nobel, the founder of Branobel and one of the richest and most important men in Russia at his time, and Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite who left the major part of his estate to the creation of the Nobel Prizes. Origins The Nobel family originated from the village of Östra Nöbbelöv in Scania, hence the name. The first member was Petrus Olai Nobelius (1655–1707) who married Wendela Rudbeck (1668–1710), daughter of the famous Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck the Elder, also known as Olof Rudbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maksim Shtraukh
Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (russian: Макси́м Макси́мович Штра́ух; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize between 1950 and 1951. He is known for playing Vladimir Lenin on stage and in film. He has privilege to get discount for V. I. Lenin bust on any USSR shop. Selected filmography * 1923 – '' Glumov's Diary'' *1924 – ''Strike'' *1929 – ''The General Line'' * 1929 – '' The Ghost That Never Returns'' *1930 – '' The Civil Servant'' * 1933 – ''The Deserter'' *1933 – '' The Conveyor of Death'' *1934 – ''The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe'' *1936 – ''A Severe Young Man'' * 1938 – ''Doctor Aybolit'' * 1938 – '' The Man with the Gun'' * 1938 – '' The Vyborg Side'' * 1940 – ''Yakov Sverdlov'' *1942 – '' His Name Is Sukhe-Bator'' *1943 – '' Two Soldiers'' *1943 – '' The Young Fritz'' *1946 – '' The Vow'' *1947 – '' Light o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikheil Gelovani
Mikheil Gelovani ( ka, მიხეილ გელოვანი, Russified as Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Гелова́ни, ''Mikhail Georgievich Gelovani''; – 21 December 1956) was a Soviet and Georgian actor, known for his numerous portrayals of Joseph Stalin in cinema, starring in fifteen historic movies mostly about the early Soviet era. He was recognized as People's Artist of the USSR in 1950. Biography Early life Mikheil Gelovani was a descendant of the old Georgian princely house of Gelovani.Dumin, Grebelskii, Lapin. p. 80. He made his stage debut in a theater in Batumi during 1913. From 1919 to 1920, he attended the Drama Studio in Tiflis. In the two following years, he was a member of the cast in the city's Rustaveli Theatre. From 1923, he worked as an actor and a director in Georgian SSR's Goskinprom film studio.Torchinov, Leontiuk. p. 146. In 1924, he first appeared on screen in the film '' Three Lives''. He moved to the Armenian SSR's Armenkino pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili Merkuryev
Vasili Vasilyevich Merkuryev (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Мерку́рьев; 6 April 1904 – 12 May 1978) was a Soviet actor, stage director and drama teacher. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1960. // Biography Vasili Merkuryev was born in 1904 into a mixed - family.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Kryuchkov
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993. Selected filmography * '' Outskirts'' (1933) * ''By the Bluest of Seas'' (1936) * '' The Return of Maxim'' (1937) * '' The Vyborg Side'' (1939) * '' Salavat Yulayev'' (1941) * ''They Met in Moscow'' (1941) * '' In the Rear of the Enemy'' (1941) * '' In the Name of the Fatherland'' (1943) * '' Heavenly Slug'' (1945) * ''Happy Flight'' (1949) * ''The Battle of Stalingrad'' (1949) * '' The Lights of Baku'' (1950) * ''Sporting Honour'' (1951) * '' Bountiful Summer'' (1951) * ''The Star'' (1953) * ''Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse'' (1955) * '' The Forty-First'' (1956) * '' Leningrad Symphony'' (1957) * ''Over Tissa'' (1958) * '' Ballad of a Soldier'' (1959) * ''Cruelty'' (1959) * ''Hussar Ballad'' (1962) * ''Balzaminov's Marriage'' (1964) * ''Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Tolubeyev
Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeyev (russian: Юрий Владимирович Толубеев, May 1, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - December 28, 1979, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet theatrical and cinema actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1956). Winner of the Lenin (1959) and Stalin Prize (1947). Hero of the Socialist Labour (1976). His son, Andrei Tolubeyev, also became an actor. Partial filmography * ''Sovershennoletiye'' (1935) - seaman Andrey * ''Na otdykhe'' (1936) - Lebedev * '' The Return of Maxim'' (1937) - Loudmouthed Worker in Natasha's Office * ''Shakhtery'' (1937) - Vasiliy Ivanovich Chub * ''Tayga zolotaya'' (1937) * ''Doch rodiny'' (1937) - Chairman of the meeting * ''Shakhtyory'' (1937) * '' Professor Mamlock'' (1938) - Fritz * '' The Vyborg Side'' (1939) - Yegor Bugai * ''Doktor Kalyuzhnyy'' (1939) * ''Patriot'' (1939) - Grigori Novikov * ''The Girl from Leningrad'' (1941) - Maj. Braginsky * ''Prints i nishchiy'' (1943) - Henry VIII of England * '' The Turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Uzhviy
Natalia Mykhailivna Uzhviy ( uk, Наталія Михайлівна Ужвій; 22 or 29 July 1986) was a Ukrainian actress. Biography Natalia Uzhviy was born on 8 September 1898 in Liuboml and was the oldest of 7 children. Works Theater Filmography Awards * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1948, 1951, ?) * Order of the Badge of Honour (1940) * People's Artist of the USSR (1944) * Order of Lenin (1944, 1960, 1968, 1973) * State Stalin Prize (1946, 1949, 1951) * Hero of Socialist Labour (1973) * Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978) * Shevchenko State Prize of Ukrainian SSR Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ... (1984) References External links * Heroes of Socialist Labour People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Zharov
Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1974). He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's ''Aelita'' (1924). Later he became a Protazanov regular, appearing in ''The Man from the Restaurant'' (1927) together with Mikhail Chekhov. In the 1930s he was a leading actor of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre, before moving to the Maly Theatre where he was engaged from 1938 till the rest of his life and most fully unfolded his actor's gift, mainly playing classical repertoire parts (in ''Wolves and Sheep'', ''The Inspector-General'', ''Heart is not a Stone'', ''The Thunderstorm'', etc.) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Kibardina
Valentina may refer to: Entertainment Film * ''Valentina'' (1950 film), a 1950 Argentine film * ''Valentina'' (2008 film), a 2008 Argentine film Television * ''Valentina'' (1993 telenovela), a 1993 Mexican telenovela * Valentina (2013 telenovela), an upcoming 2013 Chilean telenovela by TVN * ''Valentina'' (TV series), an Italian television series Comics * Valentina (Philippine comics), a supervillainess in the Filipino comic book ''Darna'' * ''Valentina'' (comics), an Italian comic book by Guido Crepax * Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, a fictional espionage agent in the Marvel Comics universe Music * ''Valentina'' (album), a 2012 album by English band The Wedding Present * "Valentina", a song about Valentina Tereshkova by Public Service Broadcasting from the 2015 album ''The Race for Space'' Names * Valentina (given name), a female given name * Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937), the first and youngest woman to have flown in space * Elizabeth Miklosi (born 1983), a.k.a. "V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smolny
Smolny is a place name in central Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is a compound of historically interrelated buildings erected in 18th and 19th centuries. As the most widely known of the buildings, the Smolny Institute, has been used as the seat of the City Governor's Office; its name is associated with city authorities. From late 1917 until 1991 it was mostly associated with the October Revolution of 1917 and Vladimir Lenin, who lived and worked there from late 1917 to early 1918. A pre-1917 educational facility for young ladies gave rise after 1991 to a number of similarly named places of learning in the city because of the high prestige of the original one in popular culture. History Tarring Yard "Smolny" was short for the Russian ''Smolny dvor'' ("The Tarring Yard"), referring to its original function as a yard for covering the hulls of wooden ships with tar to make them waterproof and protected from rot and vermin. In the 18th century, this place was located outside of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Finland
The Grand Duchy of Finland ( fi, Suomen suuriruhtinaskunta; sv, Storfurstendömet Finland; russian: Великое княжество Финляндское, , all of which literally translate as Grand Principality of Finland) was the predecessor state of modern Finland. It existed between 1809 and 1917 as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Originating in the 16th century as a titular grand duchy held by the King of Sweden, the country became autonomous after its annexation by Russia in the Finnish War of 1808–1809. The Grand Duke of Finland was the Romanov Emperor of Russia, represented by the Governor-General. Due to the governmental structure of the Russian Empire and Finnish initiative, the Grand Duchy's autonomy expanded until the end of the 19th century. The Senate of Finland, founded in 1809, became the most important governmental organ and the precursor to the modern Government of Finland, the Supreme Court of Finland, and the Supreme Administrative Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
