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- Nonna Mordyukova, one of the foremost actresses of the Soviet Cinema, was frequently cast as a Russian peasant woman.
She was born Noyabrina (Nonna) Viktorovna Mordyukova on the 25th of November 1925 into a Cossack family in Konstantinovka settlement, Donetsk province, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Ukraine). Her father was Viktor Konstantinovich Mordyukov. Her mother was Irina Petrovna Mordyukova. Young Nonna Mordyukova was fond of movies and had a dream of becoming an actress. In the 1930s she moved to Krasnodar province in Southern Russia, where her mother worked as chairwoman of kolkhoz - a collective farm. There Nonna Mordyukova survived the Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
From 1945 to 1950 she studied acting at Soviet State Institute of Cinema (VGIK) under Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova. While studying in Moscow she made her film debut as Ulyana Gromova, the female lead in The Young Guard (1948), a patriotic movie about children in anti-fascist resistance. Mordyukova became instant celebrity in the Soviet Union and was awarded the State Stalin's Prize for the role. In the following string of movies she became typecast as a peasant woman, and eventually established herself as an epitome of strong willed Russian woman.
After having two decades of stellar career in Soviet propaganda films, Mordyukova starred as Klavdia Vavilova in Komissar (1967), a Red Army cavalry commissar, who is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life. Made in 1967, the film was censored for 20 years, and director Aleksandr Askoldov was prosecuted by the Soviet communist party. Only during Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost the film was released to public and won several international awards, such as the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1988. The reason for the Soviet censorship was strictly political: this is a pro-semitic film based on the story by Vasiliy Grossman that shows the unofficial view on communist occupation of Ukraine.
Mordyukova gained much acclaim for the supporting role as Superintendant Barbara Plyushch in The Diamond Arm (1969), the most popular Russian comedy of all time. In it, Mordyukova satirized a typical Soviet-style apartment manager, a woman of small mind, but with a big voice. Her other works of interest include: Prostaya istoriya (1960), Predsedatel (1964), War and Peace (1965) by director Sergey Bondarchuk, and Russkoye pole (1972), by director Nikolai Moskalenko, where she co-starred opposite her son, Vladimir Tikhonov.
During the 70s and 80s, she remained one of the most popular actresses in the Soviet Union. In 1992, she was included in the top ten actresses of the 20th century according to the British Cinema Encyclopedia "Who is who." After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mordyukova had a slowdown in her career. During the last 15 years of her life, she was cast only in three films : Luna Park (1992), Shirli-Myrli, and her last work in Mama (1999). At that time, she wrote the book of memoirs "Ne plach, kazachka" (Don't Cry, Cossack Woman). In the course of her film career that lasted over 50 years, she played over 60 leading and supporting roles in Soviet film and television productions.
Nonna Mordyukova was designated People's actress of the USSR (1974). She was awarded the State Prizes of the USSR and Russia, and received numerous decorations from the Soviet and Russian governments. She was married to her classmate, actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov and the couple had one son, Vladimir Tikhonov. Nonna Mordyukova died of a hear failure and lung disease on July 6, 2008, in a Moscow hospital, and was laid to rest in Kuntsevskoe cemetery, Moscow, Russia. - Vladimir Pozhidayev was born in 1931 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Dva dolgikh gudka v tumane (1981), Autumn Marathon (1979) and Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1980). He died on 17 July 1994 in Artyomovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Doveyko is a participant in the Great Patriotic War, military pilot - guard lieutenant, commander of a bomber. When the war broke out, despite government reservations and protests by relatives, he went to the draft board and asked for aviation. After graduating from the Novosibirsk flight school, and then - the high school night pilots began to fly on the American Boeing B-25. In the beginning, it bombed at night, and then they organized a special purpose regiment that flew during the day. He flew as a crew commander, long-range aviation squadron commander. It was he who, leading his squadron, was the first to bomb the Reichstag area in the daytime in Berlin. A regiment of Kozhedub fighters accompanied them. In early February 1945, his regiment bombed the German city of Breslau (now Polish Wroclaw). The city was an important transport hub, and the Germans turned it into a strongly fortified fortress. As part of the Lower Silesian offensive operation, Soviet troops stormed it from January to May 6, 1945. On this day, Vladimir Doveyko bombed the railway junction of Breslau and, having received 22 holes, returned home. Suddenly a messer emerged from the cloud. Doveiko turned the car around and attacked the fighter. Five bursts converged on the German body. In this messer Goering's nephew died. After World War II, journalist Ernst Mikhailov, who was examining Goering's archives, found an order for the Luftwaffe's asks: "To shoot down pilots: Pokryshkin, Kozhedub, Rychkalov, Molodchev and the" laughing clown "(surname and part unknown). He was Vladimir Doveyko. On the fuselage of his fighting vehicle he painted a laughing clown in a bright cap and wrote "For Soviet art!" He flew over enemy cities, bombing Berlin, terrified the Nazis who called him "Laughing clown." He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner, the Horde Mr. "World War II", medals "For the victory over Germany" and "For the capture of Berlin". Vladimir Doveyko is a hereditary artist, entered the arena at the age of 9 and did not leave the arena literally until the last days of his life. The circus for Vladimir Doveiko was a profession, vocation, life. The artists called him General. After the war, he returned to the circus and created the acrobatic attraction of the romance record-breakers, which had no equal on the world's arenas. He set three world records. He played in the cinema ("Much Ado About Nothing," "The Strongest," "Afraid of a Bold Bullet," "Purely English Killing," "Mrs. Shelton's Journey," etc.). A special merit is the introduction of a new direction in rooms with teeterboards, which has greatly expanded the scope of the traditional genre. People's Artist of the USSR and Russia, winner of the Golden Clown of the most prestigious circus competition in Monte Carlo, Golden Medal of the circus competition in South America. He was awarded the orders "Badge of Honor" and "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree. In connection with the 80th anniversary of his birth, a letter of gratitude was sent to Vladimir Doveiko "For his great contribution to the development of domestic circus art" by President Vladimir Putin. The unique creative longevity of the arena master was noted by the National Academy of Circus Art of Russia, which in February 2002 presented to V.V. Doveyko Prize "Circus 2002" in the nomination "Legend of the World Circus".
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Vadim Kostromenko was born on 26 September 1934 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Noch greshnikov (1991), Shkura belogo medvedya (1980) and Otvetnaya mera (1975). He died on 1 November 2017 in Odessa, Ukraine.- Writer
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Oleg Prokopenko was born on 20 December 1932 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Oleg was a writer, known for Golfstrim (1969), Kazhdyy vecher posle raboty (1974) and Vnimaniyu grazhdan i organizatsiy (1966). Oleg died in 1990.