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- Liza Moryak was born on 30 September 1995 in Tver, Russia. She is an actress, known for Nostalgia (2021), Rikoshet (2020) and Zhizn po vyzovu (2022). She has been married to Sarik Andreasyan since 17 November 2022. They have one child.
- Yuri Belov was born on 31 July 1930 in Rzhev, Western Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Carnival Night (1956) and Koroleva benzokolonki (1963). He died on 31 December 1991 in Moscow, Russia.
- Mariya was born on August 29, 1989, in Kalinin, Kalinin region, RSFSR, in the former USSR (now Tver, Tver region, Russia). She studied ballet from an early age, and later excelled in athletics and shooting. After graduating from high school, Mariya chose a different path, and entered the Philological Department of Tver State University. In 2012, she entered the "German Sidakov School of Drama", where her specialty was "Dramatic Theater and Film Actress". After graduating, she devoted herself entirely to cinema.
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Tatyana Okunevskaya was born on 3 March 1914 in Zavidovo, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Davit Guramishvili (1946), Boule de suif (1934) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986). She was married to Boris Gorbatov and Dmitri Varlamov. She died on 15 May 2002 in Moscow, Russia.- Mikhail Kazakov was born on 28 January 1988 in Kalinin, Kalininskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Pobeg (2005), Boris Godounov (2020) and Papiny dochki (2007). He has been married to Elena Kazakova since November 2011. They have one child.
- Jacob Plank is an American actor born in Tver, Russia. He swiftly took off in the entertainment scene, landing roles in film and TV. Not to mention, TikTok is where his creativity also truly shone, captivating over 600K followers and amassing a staggering 200M profile views. With charisma and passion, Jacob continues to inspire audiences globally, poised for even greater success. Besides acting, Jacob's passion for philanthropy extends beyond his acting ambitions, as he seeks to make a meaningful impact in aiding the less fortunate. He envisions leveraging his resources to establish adoption centers and shelters for the homeless, driven by a deep commitment to helping others and fostering a more compassionate society.
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Anna Tsukanova-Kott was born on 15 June 1989 in Kalinin, Kalininskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia]. She is an actress and director, known for Ottsy i deti (2008), Fortress of War (2010) and Parallelnye pryamye peresekayutsya v beskonechnosti (2015). She is married to Aleksandr Kott. They have one child.- Animation Department
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Fyodor Khitruk is Soviet and Russian animator, director, screenwriter, teacher, translator. People's Artist of the USSR (1987). Fyodor was born in Tver, the family moved to Moscow in 1924 and in 1931 to Stuttgart, Germany where the future animator was engaged in an art and craft school. In 1936, already in Moscow, the young man studied at the art college of OGIZ; later studied at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Graphic Artists. After watching the cartoons of W. Disney at the First Moscow International Film Festival (1935), he became interested in animation and, on the advice of a friend of the artist, decided to enter the Soyuzmultfilm studio, but was refused for a long time. In 1937, Fyodor Khitruk began working as a trainee animator, and since 1938 - as an animator at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. In August 1941, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to study at the Institute of Foreign Languages for six months. After training, Fyodor served as a translator at the headquarters of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, commanded a platoon of radio interception of the 17th Air Army. After the war, Fyodor Khitruk was a military translator in Berlin for two years, and then returned to Soyuzmultfilm. Since 1962, he became engaged in directing. His first film The Story of One Crime (1962) was a great success. Today, the film is considered the beginning of a new style in the Soviet animation. Khitruk - director of short animated films for in different genres. The most famous satire on the bureaucracy is The Man in the Frame (1966), the parable about the loneliness of man in modern society Ostrov (1973), the parody Film, Film, Film (1968), the parable The Lion and the Bull (1984). The author of three animated films about Winnie the Pooh. Khitruk was one of the compilers of the international vocabulary of terms on animation.- Director
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Yuri Tsvetkov was born on 14 February 1940 in Dvorishche, Kalinin Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. Yuri is a director and writer, known for Yas i Yanina (1974), Eta vesyolaya planeta (1973) and Marinka, Yanka i tayny korolevskogo zamka (1977).- Ilya Kovalchuk was born on 15 April 1983 in Kalinin, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Russia]. He is an actor, known for 12 mesyatsev (2013), Molodyozhka (2013) and Vremya (1968). He has been married to Nicole Andrzajtis Kovalchuk since 2008. They have three children.
- Pavel Komarov was born on 12 November 1995 in Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia. He is an actor, known for Zhuki (2019), Mendelson (2023) and Pozyvnoy «Zhuravlik».
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Sergey Lemeshev is a Soviet opera singer (lyric tenor), actor, director, teacher.
From a peasant family. Parents - Yakov Stepanovich and Akulina Sergeevna, were uneducated people. They had many children, but only two survived - Sergey and his younger brother Aleksey. His father died when Sergey was still little. In 1914 he graduated from parochial school. He studied shoemaking in St. Petersburg. Having an excellent ear for music and voice, he learned to sing from gramophone recordings. He mastered musical notation at an arts and crafts school, where he participated in amateur performances and concerts.
In 1920 he entered the Tver exemplary courses for the command staff of the Red Army. However, he did not study there for long; noticing Lemeshev's talent, the command gave him a direction to study at the conservatory. In 1921-1925 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Nazariy Rayskiy.
Since 1924, he sang at the Bolshoy Theater Opera Studio under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski (now the Moscow Musical Theater named after Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko), where, among others, he performed the role of Lenskiy (opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "Evgeniy Onegin"). It was this role, which the singer performed more than 500 times, that brought him widespread fame and love from the audience. The 501st and last performance took place at the Bolshoy Theater in June 1972 in honor of the singer's upcoming 70th birthday.
In addition to singing in opera performances, he worked hard and fruitfully on performing chamber repertoire. He himself proudly noted that he managed to sing all 100 romances of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 1959-1962 he directed the Opera Studio at the Moscow Conservatory, where he staged several performances.- Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov was born on July 8, 1915, in a village in Tver province, USSR. 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 class 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 in Leningrad. In 1940, Kryukov made his film debut in 'Politruk Kolyvanov' (1940), but the film was not completed because of the hardship in the Second World War.
During WWII, Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov worked as actor during the siege of Leningrad. In the beginning of 1942, he was evacuated from besieged Leningrad to the city of Pyatigorsk. There he was arrested by the advancing Nazi Army and was taken to Germany as a POW. In Germany, Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov worked as actor until liberation at the end of WWII. Then he was returned to the Soviet Union together with five million other POWs.
After the war, Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov undergone interrogation by the Red Army intelligence and the KGB, before he was allowed to work again as a stage actor with various theatre companies in such cities as Tbilisi, Tver, Rostov, and Riga. However, he was restricted from working in Leningrad/St. Petersburg until after the death of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin a series of political changes were initiated in the Soviet Union by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1958 Nikolai Kryukov returned to Leningrad and became staff actor at the Lenfilm Studios. He was regarded for his roles in such films as Tumannost Andromedy (1967), Devushka i Grand (1982), and in the popular Russian series about Sherlock Holmes.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov was married to actress Lilia Gurova and the couple lived in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was designated Honorable Actor of Russia (1992) and was a highly respected actor in Russia. He died of a heart failure on April 30, 1993, and was laid to rest in Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Yuli Kvitsinsky was born on 28 September 1936 in Rzhev, Western Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia].
- Valentina Karavayeva was born on 21 May 1921 in Vyshny Volochyok, Vyshnevolotsky uyezd, Tver Governorate, RSFSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Mashenka (1942), Boyevoy kinosbornik 13: Nashi devushki (1942) and Lyubit... (1969). She died on 25 December 1997 in Moscow, Russia.
- William Kozlov was born on 3 November 1929 in Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Gde ty teper, Maksim? (1965). He died on 13 April 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Nikolai Sidelnikov was born on 5 June 1930 in Kalinin, Kalininskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia]. He was a composer, known for The Fight in the Blizzard (1978), Ransom (1986) and Jamilya (1969). He died on 20 June 1992 in Moscow, Russia.
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Mikhail Tsarev was a Russian stage actor and director of Maly Theatre in Moscow, best known for his acclaimed renditions of poems by Alexander Pushkin as well as his mastery of Russian language and powerful delivery. He was a long time Chairman of the Russia's Theatrical Society (the Actors Union of Russia) and was president of the Soviet National Center of the International Theater Institute.
He was born Mikhail Ivanovich Tsarev on December 1, 1903, in Tver, Russia. His father, Ivan Izotovich, was a medical nurse at Tver Hospital. In 1908 , then 5-year-old Tsarev moved with his father to Tallinn, Estonia. There, from 1911 to 1917 he attended the Revelsky Classical Gymnasium. In 1917, during the First World War, the Tsarevs fled from the advancing German armies and moved to St. Petersburg (then called Petrograd, then Leningrad). There his father was assigned to a Railroad Hospital in Tsarskoe Selo suburb of St. Petersburg, and the family lived in a house near the Imperial Pavilion railroad station. On August 14, 1917, young Tsarev witnessed the arrested Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian royal family departure to exile in Siberia.
From 1917 to 1919, Tsarev attended the Tsarskoselsky Gymnasium, the famous school which was associated with many important names of Russian culture and science. There Tsarev caught the acting bug and became involved in the student drama club. He was fond of Russian literature, especially in the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. At that time, student Tsarev made his first solo stage performances delivering Pushkin's poems and prose, and after that, Pushkin's poetry became the staple of Tsarev's repertoire, and brought him much public success with his numerous stage and radio performances.
From 1919 to 1921 Mikhail Tsarev studied acting under Yuri Yuryev at the School of Russia Drama in St. Petersburg (Petrograd), graduating in 1921 as an actor. From 1920 to 1926 he was member of the troupe at Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad, where his partner was Yuri Lavrov and other notable actors of Leningrad. In the early 1930s he worked in various Moscow theatres under such directors as Aleksandr Tairov, and from 1933-1937 he was member of the troupe under director Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1932, Tsarev made his film debut in 'Pobediteli nochi' by directors Adolf Minkin and Igor Sorokhtin, albeit the film was destroyed.
From 1937 to 1987, he was permanent member of the troupe at Maly Thatre in Moscow. There he worked on stage with such actors as Vera Pashennaya, Olga Sadovskaya, Nikolai Annenkov, A. Yablochkina, Varvara Massalitinova, Varvara Ryzhova, Yevdokiya Turchaninova, Yelena Gogoleva, Varvara Obukhova, Yelena Shatrova, Elina Bystritskaya, Rufina Nifontova, Tatyana Eremeeva, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev, Vladimir Davydov, Sergei Aidarov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Prov Sadovsky, Boris Ravenskikh, Boris Babochkin, Mikhail Zharov, Igor Ilyinsky, Pavel Olenev, Mikhail Sadovsky, Konstantin Zubov, Viktor Khokhryakov, Vsevolod Aksyonov, Nikolai Ryzhov, Evgeniy Vesnik, Viktor Korshunov, Evgeniy Samoylov, Yuriy Solomin, and many other notable Russian actors.
Mikhail Tsarev was best known for his performances in classical Russia dramas, such as the leading role as Chatsky in A. Griboedov's 'Woe From Wit' which was captured on film as Gore ot uma (1952) by director Sergei Alekseyev. From 1950 - 1988, Tsarev was artistic director of the Maly Theatre. He was designated People's Actor of the USSR, was twice awarded the State Prize of the USSR, and was three times decorated with the Order of Lenin, as well as numerous other order and medals of Russia and the USSR. Mikhail Tsarev died on November 10, 1987, and was laid to rest in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. His obituary was signed by Mikhail Gorbachev.- Actor
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Mikhail Krug was the most successful amateur bard, composer and singer in "Shanson" genre. At first he was just a truck driver. Having no musical education he took the first place on a contest of authors' songs in Tver, Russia. After his victory the "Sojuz" recording company spread Krug's records in markets all over Russia. His first album "Jigan-Limon" (Gangster-lemon) became immensely popular among the Russians of 1990s and was sold in millions of copies. But the radio stations and the television did not recognize Krug as a celebrity. He rarely appeared on the TV screen. But still he was loved by the people. His songs were devoted to the problems of the criminal world. It was in the jails, that Mikhail Krug gained recognition (all in all he gave 80 concerts in jails). Now, over 5 years after his death, Krug's songs are listened to by both the criminals and the police and other residents.- Vladimir Golovin was born on 26 April 1940 in Kalinin, Kalininskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988), 20-e dekabrya (1982) and Dukhov den (1991). He was married to Era Ziganshina. He died on 18 October 2010 in Bologoe, Bologovskiy rayon, Tverskaya oblast, Russia.
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Conductor Serge Koussevitsky was born in Vyshni Volochek, Russia, on July 26, 1874. As a child he studied music in Moscow, mainly the double bass, and it wasn't long before he was considered a virtuoso on the instrument; while still a teenager he gave concerts not only in Russia but in Germany and England.
In addition to studying music, he also studied conducting. He made his debut as a conductor in Berlin in 1908. The next year he organized his own orchestra in Moscow and later that year started a music publishing company, which eventually published works by Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff and other notable composers. In the years between 1910 and 1914 he and his orchestra toured small towns up and down the Volga River, bringing to many of the residents the type of music that they had never heard before.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Koussevitsky was appointed director of the State Symphony Orchestra in Petrograd (later renamed Leningrad). He left Russia in 1920 for Paris to organize concerts; he stayed in France until 1924, when he moved to the US and settled in Boston, where he was hired to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He remained its conductor and director until he retired in 1949 (he became an American citizen in 1941). Over the 25 years he was in Boston he was responsible for the premieres of the works of many major American composers, such as Aaron Copland and Walter Piston.
In 1934 he began the annual Berkshire Symphonic Festival (now known as the Berkshire Festival), a series of outdoor concerts by the Boston Symphony. Starting in 1938 the concerts were held in Tanglewood, an estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1940 he founded the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, a summer school where promising musical students would work with and be taught by prominent musicians.
He died in Boston on June 4, 1951.- Director
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Stanislav Chaplin was born on 20 July 1932 in Vyshniy Volochyok, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Burning Mooki (2008), Khotite - verte, khotite - net... (1964) and Haya O Lo Haya (2003). He was married to Lena Chaplin. He died on 28 April 2013.- Angelina Varganova was born on 7 November 1971 in Konakovo, Kalinin Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Papiny dochki (2007). She died on 4 January 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
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Igor Sadreev was born on 25 April 1985 in Kalinin, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Russia]. He is a director and producer, known for White coat (2023), Find a Jew (2022) and Please look up (2023).- Dmitri Novosyolov was born on 18 March 1986 in Kalinin, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Slide (2013). He died on 2 January 2017 in Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia.