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Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Evstigneev was born on October 9, 1926, in Gorky, Russia, USSR (now Nizhni Novgorod, Russia). His father, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Evstigneev, was a metal worker. His mother, Maria Ivanovna (nee Chernysheva), was an industrial metal-miller. Young Evstigneev also worked as an industrial metal-worker in the city of Gorky.
In 1946 Evstigneev made an effort to enter the Gorky Theatrical School. There he was criticized by one of the examiners and was rejected with a comment: "We do not need short, balding actor.s" He had to return to his industrial job. However, he was able to express his creativity through music performances. Evstigneev was fond of American jazz music: he played drums with a local jazz-band in the city of Gorky. There he was scouted by Vitali Lebsky, director of Gorky Theatrical School. Vitali Lebsky immediately noticed Evstigneev's bright smile and musical virtuosity, and was impressed with Evstigneev's radiant personality and stage presence. Lebsky admitted Evstigneev to his acting class without an entrance exams. From 1946-1951 Evstigneev studied acting and graduated from the Gorky Theatrical school in 1951. From 1951-1954 he worked with the Vladimir City Drama Theatre.
In 1954 Evstigneev came to Moscow in his pursuit of an acting career. At that time the cultural revival known as the "Thaw" was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev, which opened many new opportunities for talented people. From 1954-1956 Evstigneev studied at School of Acting of the legendary Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There he became involved with the Moscow intellectual and artistic milieu. In 1955 Evstigneev joined Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Igor Kvasha, Galina Volchek, and other student-actors to start an independent theatre company, named 'Studio of Young Actors'. In 1956, upon their graduation, Evstigneev and his fellow actors became co-founders of their own theatre company in Moscow which became known as "Sovremennik". In 1957 he married actress Galina Volchek, their son Denis Evstigneev was born in 1961.
Evstigneev shot to fame after he starred as Comrade Dynin in 'Dobro pozhalovat, ili postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen' (Welcome, or No Trespassing 1964) by director Elem Klimov. He made remarkable performances in films from such directors, as Grigoriy Chukhray, Eldar Ryazanov, Mikhail Shvejtser, Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Karen Shakhnazarov, Leonid Filatov, Stanislav Govorukhin, Vladimir Bortko, Yuriy Kara, and other Russian film directors. From 1971-1992 he was a permanent member of the troupe of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). His stage partners were Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Oleg Efremov, Sergey Yurskiy, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Viktor Sergachyov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Boris Shcherbakov, and other notable Russian actors.
Evgeni Evstigneev was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1974) for his theatrical work. He was designated People's Artist of the USSR (1983) and received numerous awards and recognitions for his acting works in film and on stage. Evstigneev suffered from a chronic heart condition and complications from a heart attack. He died while undergoing preparation for a heart surgery on March 4, 1992, in London, England, and was laid to rest in the Novodevichy Convent Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- Aleksey Demidov was born on 24 August 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, USSR. He is an actor, known for Sputnik (2020), The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (2018) and Plaksa (2023).
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Natalya Kudryashova was born on 12 October 1978 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, USSR. She is an actress and director, known for Pionery-geroi (2015), The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018) and Peterburg. Tolko po lyubvi (2016).- Artyom Bystrov was born on 19 March 1985 in Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He is an actor, known for The Fool (2014), T-34 (2018) and Planeta.
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Maksim Gorky is a pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, who was born into a poor Russian family in Nizhnii Novgorod on Volga river. Gorky lost his father at an early age, he was beaten by his stepfather and became an orphan at age 9, when his mother died. He was brought up by his grandmother, who helped his development as a storyteller.
He was blessed with a brilliant memory, but failed to enter a University of Kazan. At age 19 he survived a suicide attempt, because the bullet missed his heart. After that Gorky traveled on foot for 5 years all over Central Russia, worked as a sailor on a Volga steamboat, then a salesperson, a railway worker, a salt miller, and a lawyer's clerk. At that time he was arrested for his public criticism of the Tsar and social injustices in Russia. He started writing for newspapers and published his first 'Sketches and Stories' in 1890s. Later he wrote an autobiographic book "My Universities" based on impressions from his travels and jobs. Gorky wrote with sympathy about the simple folks, the outcasts, the gypsies, the hobos and dreamers in the context of social decay in the Russian Empire. He became friends with Anton Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy. His play 'The Lower Depths' (1892) was praised by Chekhov and was successfully played in Europe and the United States. His political activism resulted in cancellation of his membership in the Russian Academy. Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko left the Academy in protest and solidarity with Gorky. He went to live in Europe and America in 1906-13. In America he started his classic novel, 'The Mother', about a Russian Christian woman and her imprisoned son, who both joined revolutionaries under the illusion that revolution follows Christ's messages.
After the Russian revolution in 1917, Gorky criticized Lenin and communists for their "bloody experiments on the Russian people". He wrote, 'Lenin and Trotsky are corrupted with the dirty poison of power. They are disrespectful of human rights, freedom of speech and all other civil liberties". Soon Gorky received a handwritten warning letter from Lenin. Later his friend Nikolai Gumilev, ex-husband of Anna Akhmatova was executed by communists. In 1921 Gorky emigrated to Europe and settled in Capri. He became careful in his critique of communism. In 1932 after a series of brief visits, he returned to Soviet Russia. He was placed in a rich Moscow mansion of the former railroad tycoon Ryabushinsky. His return from the fascist Italy was a victory for Soviet propaganda. He was made the Chairman of the Soviet Writer's Union, and a figurehead of "socialist realism" . After the murder of Kirov in 1934 Gorky was under a house arrest. His son died in 1935. The following year Gorki Gorky died suddenly at the Lenin's dacha in Moscow.- Vladimir Vikhrov was born on 17 January 1954 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Krasnye dipkurery (1977), Ekipazh mashiny boevoy (1983) and Den svadby pridyotsya utochnit (1980). He died on 6 September 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
- Lyudmila Khityaeva was born on 5 August 1930 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The Night Before Christmas (1961), Ekaterina Voronina (1957) and Evdokiya (1961).
- Yevgeniy Yegorov was born on 30 July 1999 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He is an actor, known for Mira (2022), Guests (2019) and The North Wind (2021).
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Aleksandr Veledinskiy was born on 27 July 1959 in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhegorodskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a writer and director, known for The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013), Zhivoy (2006) and 1993 (2023).- Actor
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Sergei Desnitsky is a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).
He was born Sergei Glebovich Desnitsky on April 4, 1941, in the Soviet Union. From 1958 - 1962 he studied acting under A. Karev and G. Gerasimov at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1962 as an actor. In 1968 he starred in the title role in Eksperiment doktora Absta (1969), by director Anton Timonishin. He later continued his 'Sci-Fi' career as the title character in Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979), adapted from the eponymous book by Stanislaw Lem.
Since 1964 Sergei Desnitsky has been a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Alla Tarasova, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Mikhail Yanshin, Viktor Stanitsyn, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Tatyana Lavrova, Nina Gulyaeva, Olga Barnet, Iya Savvina, Irina Miroshnichenko, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Raisa Maksimova, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Vladlen Davydov, Viktor Sergachyov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Aleksei Agapov, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. During the 1960s - 2000s Desnitsky made stage appearance in about 100 various roles. His most memorable stage roles were as Karelin in 'Shestoe Iyulya' (aka.. The 6th of July) by Mikhail Shatrov, and as Monakhov in 'Varvary' (aka.. The Barbarians) by Maxim Gorky. He also appeared in supporting roles in Anton Chekhov's classic plays 'Chaika' (aka.. The Seagull), 'Dyadya Vanya' (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and 'Vishnevy sad' (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). Besides his acting career, Desnitsky was assistant director for Boris Livanov and Oleg Efremov.
Since 1991 Desnitsky with his wife, actress Vera Desnitskaya, has been performing with their own theatrical enterprise in Moscow. There he made acclaimed performances as Illarion in 'ya, babushka, Iliko i Illarion' (aka.. Me, grandmother, Iliok, and Illarion) by Nodar Dumbadze. He played about twenty roles in Soviet films and on television, and also made voice-overs for characters in Soviet cartoons, as well as imported foreign films. Desnitsky was designated Honorable Actor of Russia. He is living in Moscow, Russia.- Nikolai Bulganin was born on 30 March 1895 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was married to Elena Mikhailovna. He died on 24 February 1975 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Claude Génia was born on 4 March 1913 in Vetluga, Russian Empire [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Le père Goriot (1945), The Count of Monte Cristo (1954) and La louve (1949). She was married to Jacques Le Beau. She died on 18 May 1979 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
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Igor Maslennikov was born on 26 October 1931 in Nizhny Novgorod, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Sentimentalnyi Roman (1976), Pisma k Elze (2002) and Zimnyaya vishnya 2 (1990). He died on 17 September 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia.- Ilya Alekseev was born on 27 September 1980 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, USSR. He is an actor, known for Dark World (2010), Devushka na million (2022) and Olya + Kolya (2007).
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Rudolf Mukhin was born on 13 December 1935 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. He was an actor and production manager, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Obyknovennoe chudo (1965) and Kuryer na Vostok (1991). He died on 28 October 1992.- Actor
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Andrey Fayt was born on 29 August 1903 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Great Consoler (1933) and Treasure Island (1972). He was married to Galina Kravchenko and Maria Nikolajewna Briling. He died on 17 January 1976 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Aleksei Ivanov was born on 23 November 1969 in Gorky, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. He is a writer, known for Tsar (2009), The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013) and The Conquest of Siberia (2019).
- Natalya Gudkova was born on 23 October 1977 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Dikiy (2009), Bullet: Ek Dhamaka (2005) and Voditel dlya Very (2004).
- Natalya Pavlenkova was born on 7 September 1960 in Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Zoology (2016), Conference (2020) and Kontakty (2023).
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- Producer
Aleksey Zaytsev was born on 28 March 1939 in Chyornyoe, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and producer, known for Telo (1990), Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1975) and Alyoshkina lyubov (1961). He died on 26 May 2018 in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia.- Artyom Suchkov was born on 3 August 1992 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He is an actor, known for Mafia: Game of Survival (2016), The (UN)perfect Guy (2020) and To the Lake (2019).
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Igor Levit was born on 10 March 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.- Maia Usova was born on 22 May 1964 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. She is married to Abatoly Orletsky. They have one child. She was previously married to Alexander Zhulin.
- Evgeniy Menshov was born on 19 February 1947 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Gde ty, lyubov? (1981), Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980) and Postaraysya ostatsya zhivym (1986). He was married to Larysa Borushko, Olga Groznoy and Natalia Selivyorstova. He died on 19 May 2015 in Moscow, Russia.
- Pavel Makhotin was born on 19 February 1926 in Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ya byl sputnikom solntsa (1959), Day of Wrath (1985) and Veter 'Nadezhdy' (1978). He died on 1 March 2001 in Moscow, Russia.
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Eduard Limonov was born on 22 February 1943 in Dzerzhinsk, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer and actor, known for Russkoe (2004), Des Teufels Kinder (2011) and Symphony of Donbass (2015). He was married to Ekaterina Volkova, Nataliya Medvedeva, Yelena Shchapova and Anna Rubinshtein. He died on 17 March 2020 in Moscow, Russia.- Mikhail Zimin was born on 5 August 1930 in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhegorodskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Krasnoe i chernoe (1976), We'll Live Till Monday (1968) and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980). He died on 30 December 1991 in Moscow, Russia.
- Anna Kolomiytseva was born on 10 November 1898 in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Private Ivan (1955), Teper pust ukhodit (1963) and Ivan Brovkin na tseline (1959). She died on 30 July 1976 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Sergey Tsepov was born on 16 July 1960 in Kstovo, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Fortress of War (2010), Fart (2005) and Begletsy (2014).
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- Art Department
Andrey Shchipanov was born in 1987 in Kstovo, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Zaza (2009), Skazhi Leo (2008) and Besy (2014).- Additional Crew
Jadwiga Hryniewiecka was born on 20 June 1903 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Jadwiga is known for Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969) and Przygody pana Michala (1969). Jadwiga died on 19 June 1988 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Vera Voronkova was born on 21 March 1965 in Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Lyubovnik (2002), Paradise (2016) and Kontakt (2005).
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Natalya Minyaeva was born on 31 March 1974 in Dzerzhinsk, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. She was previously married to Aleksandr Rudin.- Vassa Bokova was born on 8 May 1996 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She is an actress, known for Korol i Shut (2023), The Method (2015) and Nichego smeshnogo (2018).
- Konstantin Kuznetsov was born on 6 April 1886 in Pochinki, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russia. He was an art director, known for The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1943). He died on 30 November 1943 in Moscow, USSR.
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Marina Kapatsinskaya was born in the town of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. She studied in the Moscow Academy of Music "Tchaykovsky" and graduated from professor Dmitri Bashkirov's piano class in 1969. In 1970 marriage brought her to Bulgaria where in 1974 she won First Prize and Gold Medal in the All-Bulgarian Competition for vocal and instrument performers. The year after Mrs. Kapatsinskaya became a laureate of the Busoni Competition in Boltsano, Italy. From 1973 till 1988 Marina Kapatsinskaya was working as a piano soloist at the State Music Agency. In 1975 she began to work for the National Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov" - first as an assistant to professor Konstantin Ganev and then in 1988 as a pedagogue herself. At the moment she is a professor at Piano Department in the National Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov"- Actor
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Rustam Kasymov was born on 12 February 1980 in Dzerzhinsk, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Command Performance (2009), Blizhniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter (2007) and Hired Gun (2009).- Soviet test pilot, brigade commander (1938), Hero of the Soviet Union (1936). The commander of the crew of the aircraft, which made the first non-stop flight through the North Pole from Moscow to Vancouver (Washington State) in 1937. In 1919, Valeriy Chkalov first saw a plane and, having a tingling dream of aviation, left for Nizhny Novgorod, where he met fellow villager Vladimir Frolishchev, who worked as an aircraft assembly team leader in the 4th Kanavinsky Aviation Park. On his advice, Valery, at the age of 15, volunteered for the Red Army and began working as an apprentice fitter. In 1921, Chkalov got a referral to study at the Yegoryevsk Military Theoretical School of the Air Force. After graduating from it in 1922, he was sent to further studies at the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School of Pilots, where he made his first independent flight on an Avro 504 aircraft. At the end of the school, in 1923-1924, in accordance with the practice of preparing military personnel at that time pilots, he was trained at the Moscow Military Aviation School of Aerobatics, where he mastered combat aircraft (Martinsyde and Junkers fighters). Then he studied at the Serpukhov Higher Aviation School of Shooting, Bombing and Air Combat. In June 1924, a military fighter pilot Chkalov was sent to serve in the Leningrad Red Banner Fighter Squadron named after Nesterov (Commandant Airfield). The case when Chkalov flew under the Equality Bridge (Trinity) in Leningrad is widely known. For the film "Valery Chkalov" this flight was made by pilot Evgeni Ivanovich Borisenko. In 1926, the 1st Red Banner Fighter Aviation Squadron was relocated from the Commandant airfield to the Trotsk airfield (now Gatchina), where Chkalov served from 1926 to 1928. In 1927, Chkalov married a Leningrad teacher Olga Orekhova. In March 1928, he was transferred to serve in the 15th Bryansk Aviation Squadron, and his wife and his son Igor remained in Leningrad. In November 1930, Chkalov was reinstated in a military rank and sent to work at the Moscow Air Force Research Institute of the Red Army. In two years of work at the research institute, he completed more than 800 test flights, having mastered the technique of piloting 30 types of aircraft. On December 3, 1931, Chkalov participated in the tests of an aircraft aircraft (air carrier), which was a heavy bomber carrying up to five fighter aircraft on its wings and fuselage. In 1932, the Air Force Research Institute was transferred from the Khodynka field in Moscow to an airfield near the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region. Relocation from an ordinary event turned into the first air parade in the USSR with a flight over Red Square. 45 aircraft flew in a convoy of three cars in a row, and at the head was a TB-3 bomber with tail number 311, controlled by the crew of Valery Chkalov. Since January 1933, Valery Chkalov was back in stock and transferred to work as a test pilot at the Menzhinsky Moscow Aviation Plant No. 39. Together with his senior comrade Alexander Anisimov, he tested the latest 1930s fighter aircraft I-15 (biplane) and I-16 (monoplane) designed by Polikarpov. He took part in the tests of the fighter tanks "VIT-1", "VIT-2", as well as heavy bombers "TB-1", "TB-3", a large number of experimental and experimental vehicles of the OKB Polikarpov. The author of new aerobatics - an upward corkscrew and a slowed-down barrel. On May 5, 1935, aircraft designer Nikolai Polikarpov and test pilot Valery Chkalov were awarded the highest government award, the Order of Lenin, for creating the best fighter aircraft. Already on the island of Udd, the inscription "Stalin's route" was inscribed on board the plane, which was preserved on the next flight through the North Pole to America. Both Chkalov flights officially bore this name until the beginning of the struggle with the personality cult of Stalin. For the flight to the Far East, the entire crew was awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union with the awarding of the Order of Lenin: the Gold Star medal, introduced in 1939 after the death of Chkalov, was awarded only to his children in 2004. In addition, Chkalov was presented with a private U-2 plane (now located in the museum in Chkalovsk). The exceptional propaganda importance of this flight for its time is indicated by the fact that Stalin personally arrived on August 10, 1936 at the Shchelkovsky airfield near Moscow to meet the returning plane. From this moment, Chkalov gained popular fame in the USSR. Chkalov continued to seek permission to fly to the United States, and in May 1937 permission was obtained. The start of the ANT-25 aircraft took place on June 18. The flight took place in much more difficult conditions than the previous one (lack of visibility, icing, etc.), but on June 20 the plane made a safe landing in Vancouver, Washington, USA. The length of the flight was 8504 kilometers. All crew members have become celebrities in America. Among the welcoming crew on American soil were the USSR ambassador to the USA, Troyanovsky and J.K. Marshall, the future general and US secretary of state, who later received the crew members at home. For this flight, the crew was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. December 12, 1937 Valery Chkalov was elected to the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the Gorky Region and the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. At the request of the residents of Vasilyov, their village was renamed Chkalovsk. Chkalov died on December 15, 1938 during the first test flight on a new I-180 fighter at the Central Airfield.
- Gennady Yanayev was born on 26 August 1937 in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He died on 24 September 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
- Evelina Ovchinnikova was born on 2 March 1935 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Idu iskat (1966), Tyoshcha (1974) and Posle yarmarki (1973). She died on 23 September 1975 in the USSR.
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Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov was born on November 21, 1896, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was a barber. Young Tikhonov studied at School of Commerce in St. Petersburg. He dropped out and became a stenographer at the Office of the Imperial Trade Fleet and Ports of Russia, in St. Petersburg. At that time he wrote his early poems. From 1914-1918 he served as a hussar in the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War. His first literary teacher was poet Nikolai Gumilev.
From 1918-1944 Tikhonov lived in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). He joined the literary group Serapionovy Bratya (The Serapion Brothers). The group was initiated in February of 1921, by Yevgeni Zamyatin who professed, at his literary seminars with aspiring writers, that: "true literature can be created only by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." They took their name from the story of E.T.A.Hoffmann titled 'Serapion Brothers', about artistic freedom. The group included Mikhail Zoschenko, Lev Lunts, Konstantin Fedin, Vladimir Pozner, Viktor Shklovskiy, Mikhail Slonimsky, Vsevolod Ivanov, Elizaveta Polonskaia, Nikolai Nikitin, and Veniamin Kaverin. The Serapion Brothers was under the patronage of critic and writer Yuri Tynyanov. They also attended seminars of Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy. They lived in the famous artistic community known as 'Dom Iskusstv' (House of Arts) in a former aristocratic palace on the Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg. The writers of the group were non-conformists and were in opposition to the official Moscow-based Soviet literature. Their leader Yevgeni Zamyatin fearlessly criticized the Soviet policy of "Red Terror" and intimidation of intellectuals. Some writers of the Serapion Brothers' group were under severe criticism and were censored. Tikhonov chose to split from Serapion Brothers and turned to the Soviet official literature and politics.
In 1925 Tikhonov coined the famous propaganda slogan about the Bolshevik Communists and their stubbornness: "Gvozdi by delat is etikh ludei; krepche b ne bylo v mire gvozdei" (Turn this people to nails; there would be no stronger nails in the world). He wrote a propaganda poem about Lenin and pleased Soviet officials during the ideological struggle of the 1920's. During the 1930's Tikhonov made a fast political career under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Tikhonov chose to comply with the Soviet official line in literature and served the Soviet propaganda during his first trip abroad. In 1935 he was a member of the Soviet delegation to Peace Congress in Paris. There he connected with the French communists, such as Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. He adopted the methods of "socialist realism" in his writings. He eventually made an impressive career as a literary administrator, rising to Member of the Board of the Soviet Writers' Union during the Second World War. He was a friend of Andrei Zhdanov. In 1944 he was appointed the Chairman of the Soviet Writer's Union and Moved to Moscow. In 1946 he switched places with his friend Aleksandr Fadeyev, who became the Chairman again, and Tikhonov remained Member of the Board at the Soviet Writer's Union for many more years. He opposed poets of the younger generation of the 60's at the time of "Thaw" that was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. During the rule of Leonid Brezhnev he took the side of Mikhail Sholokhov against Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and other dissident writers.
His early book of poetry "Twelve Ballads" (1925) remained his best work. Tikhonov was among the hard-line literary officials in Soviet Russia. He was awarded the Stalin's Prize three times (1942, 1949, 1952), the Lenin's Prize twice (1957 and 1970), and many other Soviet awards and decorations. From 1946-1979 he was continuously elected representative to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Nikolai Tikhonov died on February 8, 1979, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in the Novodevichi Convent Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- Aleksandr Ulyanov was born on 12 April 1866 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He died on 20 May 1887 in Shlisselburg, Russia.
- Ivan Aleksandrov was born on 1 May 1904 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Wind (1959), Miles of Fire (1957) and Rovesnik veka (1960). He died on 27 June 1962 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Anatoliy Garichev was born on 6 September 1938 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Oshibki yunosti (1978), Foma Gordeev (1959) and Chelovek-nevidimka (1977). He died in 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Irina Duka was born on 18 November 1945 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Sokrovishcha pylayushchikh skal (1969), Serdtse Bonivura (1969) and Nadezhda kak svidetelstvo zhizni (2008).
- Issay Dobrowen was born on 27 February 1891 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Issay was a composer, known for Polikushka (1922). Issay died on 9 December 1953 in Oslo, Norway.
- Aleksandr Kulikov was born on 27 May 1965 in Gorky, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia]. Aleksandr was a producer, known for Volshebniki (2022). Aleksandr died on 28 November 2016 in Maly Mayak, Russia.
- Daria Pilipenko was born on 9 June 1990 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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- Music Department
Aleksandr Kreyn was born on 20 October 1883 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a composer, known for Ballet Tales (1955), Tom Sawyer (1936) and Uchitel tantsev (1952). He died on 25 April 1951 in Staraya Ruza, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Nikolay Glazkov was born on 30 January 1919 in Lyskovo, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, RSFSR [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), Romans o vlyublyonnykh (1974) and Flames on the Volga (1956). He died on 1 October 1979 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].