Petro Yukhymovych Vesklyarov ( uk, Вескляров Петро Юхимович) ( in
Talne
Talne ( uk, Тальне́, ; russian: Тальное, Talnoye) is a town in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Talne urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of ...
, Ukraine – January 5, 1994 in
Kyiv
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) was a
Ukrainian
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theater and television actor.
He was also known by the
nickname
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Did Panas (Grandpa Panas, uk, дід Панас).
Between 1932 and 1940, Vesklyarov was an actor in a travelling workers' theatre, and between 1946 and 1959 he performed at the Taras Shevchenko Musical-Drama Theatre in
Lutsk
Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lu ...
, Volyn. Between 1959 and 1982 Veslklyarov worked in the
Dovzhenko Film Studios, appearing in a number of films. He starred in the 1959 drama film ''
Ivanna'' and appeared in the 1970 comedy film ''
Two Days of Miracles
''Two Days of Miracles'' (russian: Два дня чудес, Dva dnya dlya chudes) is a 1970 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Lev Mirsky based on the play ''Simply Awful!'' by Yuri Sotnik.
Plot
Young undereducated fairies Daisy and Violet fr ...
''. During this time (1964-1986) he appeared as the character "Дід Панас" (Grandpa Panas) in the Ukrainian television series "На добраніч, діти" (Goodnight, children).
In 1973, he was awarded the title
Meritorious Artist
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...
of the
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
.
Commemoration
He was buried in the columbarium of the Baikove cemetery. The widow left for the United States, before handing over the films with the recordings of "Grandpa Panas" to the Kapranov brothers.
[Колискова від Діда Панаса // Україна молода, № 99-100, 10.06.2011](_blank)
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In 2019, a memorial plaque was installed on the premises of the Talne school, where the house where Petro Veskliarov was born stood. In 2022, in Talne, Cherkasy region, Krylov Street became Veskliarov Street.
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1911 births
1994 deaths
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Soviet military personnel of World War II from Ukraine
Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine
Burials at Baikove Cemetery
Soviet actors
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