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Step Forward (film)
Step Forward (russian: Шаг навстречу, Shag navstrechu) is a Soviet film-an almanac, consisting of five novels. Plot Five novels, united by the history of the nascent love of two elderly people, meeting every day on the way to work. Meeting every day in public transport, they do not suspect that they are neighbors around the house, and they are constantly giving each other a lot of trouble. Cast ;Step Forward * Lyudmila Gurchenko as Valentina Stepanovna * Nikolay Volkov Jr. as Igor Anatolievich * Yelena Anderegg as janitor ;The Captain's Daughter * Andrey Popov as captain * Yelena Tsyplakova as Lida, captain's daughter, student * Georgy Vitsin as man in buffet * Lyudmila Ivanova as taxi driver * Vera Titova as barmaid * Anatoly Popov as student * Natalia Chetverikova as girl at airport ;Father Seraphim * Yevgeny Leonov as Seraphim Nikitich, engineer * Valentina Vladimirova as Maria Timofeevna, his wife * Yelena Solovey as Tatyana * Semyon Morozov as assis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko ( née Gurchenko; russian: link=no, Людмила Марковна Гурченко; 12 November 1935 – 30 March 2011) was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. She was given the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Lyudmila Gurchenko was born in Kharkiv, USSR (now Ukraine) in 1935 as Lyudmila Gurchenkova to Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenkov (1898–1973) and Yelena Aleksandrovna Simonova-Gurchenkova (1917–1999). Her father came from a Russian peasant family, while her mother was from Russian nobility — both from around Smolensk. Before World War II they lived in a single room apartment on the ground floor at Mordvinovsky Lane No. 17 (now Gurchenko Lane #7). At that time, her parents worked at the Kharkiv Philharmonic Society. Mark Gurchenko was known to play the bayan (Russian accordion). Gurchenko spent a part of her childhood with her mom during the time of the German occupation of USSR in her na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Telegina
Valentina Petrovna Telegina (russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress. Biography Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the Rostov Oblast). In 1937, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Since 1937 the actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, in 1940-1941 of the Baltic Fleet Theatre. In the cinema since 1934. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film '' Komsomolsk''. After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946. She aimed to embody the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity. Valentina Petrovna Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Komsomolsk'' (1938) as Motya Kotenkova * '' The New Teacher'' (1939) as Stepanida Ivanovna Lautina * '' Member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Romantic Comedy Films
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenfilm Films
Lenfilm (russian: link=no, Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners and several private film studios which operate on the premises. Since October 2012, the Chairman of the board of directors is Fyodor Bondarchuk. History Before Lenfilm St. Petersburg was home to several Russian and French film studios since the early 1900s. In 1908, St. Petersburg businessman Vladislav Karpinsky opened his film factory Omnium Film, which produced documentaries and feature films for local theatres. During the 1910s, one of the most active private film studios was Neptun in St. Petersburg, where such figures as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik made their first silent films, released in 1917 and 1918. Lenfilm's property was originally under the private ownership of the ''Aquarium'' garden, which belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dachnoye Metro Station
Dachnoye (russian: Да́чное) was a temporary station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by architect Kseniya Afonskaya and opened on June 1, 1966. The station was created to serve the transportation needs of nearby neighborhoods until the Leninisky Prospekt- Prospekt Veteranov segment could be completed. Dachnoye was an above-ground station, with trains arriving and departing at one end. To save cost the station was constructed in the cheapest manner possible, with platform and the weather covering being made out of precast concrete Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and maneuvered into place; examples include precast bea ... panels. On 5 October 1977, the Leninskiy Prospect-Prospect Veteranov segment was completed and the station was taken out of service. The rails leading u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narvskaya
Narvskaya () is a subway station in Saint Petersburg, Russia on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod. The station was opened on 15 November 1955, as a part of the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro from Avtovo to Ploschad Vosstania. Overview When the construction of the station began, it was named after the Ploshchad Stachek (), but several years before it has been opened, the name was changed to "Stalinskaya" after Joseph Stalin. When the Soviet leader died in 1953 and de-Stalinization under Nikita Khrushchev began, the station was renamed "Narvskaya" after the Narva Triumphal Gate, located opposite of the entrance to the station. The name indicates that once there was a gate of the road to Narva. Despite the name change, it still contains a large number of decorative elements related to Stalin and his cult of personality. The irregular-shaped pavilion is built in the neoclassical style with a dome at one end. The station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro (russian: links=no, Петербургский метрополитен, Peterburgskiy metropoliten) is a rapid transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Construction began in early 1941, but was put on hold due to World War II and the subsequent Siege of Leningrad, during which the constructed stations were used as bomb shelters. It was finally opened on 15 November 1955. Formerly known as the ''Order of Lenin Leningrad Metro named after V. I. Lenin'' (), the system exhibits many typical Soviet designs and features exquisite decorations and artwork making it one of the most attractive and elegant metros in the world. Due to the city's unique geology, the Saint Petersburg Metro is also one of the deepest metro systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of all the stations. The system's deepest station, Admiralteyskaya, is below ground. The network consists of 5 lines with a total length of . It has 72 stations including 7 transfer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Era Ziganshina
Era Garafovna Ziganshina ( tt-Cyrl, Эра Гарәф кызы Җиһаншина, russian: Э́ра Гара́фовна Зига́ншина; born February 1, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2005). Biography Ziganshina was born in Kazan, USSR. She studied at drama school at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ... (now Saint Petersburg). From 1965 to 1976 he worked at the Baltic House Festival Theatre (with a break in 1970 he worked at the Russian drama theater in Chisinau). References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ziganshina, Era 1944 births Actors from Kazan Living people Soviet film actresses Soviet television actresses Soviet stage actresses Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Kreylis-Petrova
Kira Alexandrovna Kreylis-Petrova (russian: Кира Александровна Крейлис-Петрова; 1 July 1931 – 12 May 2021) was a Soviet and Russian stage, television, and film actress. She was an Honored Artist of Russia (1993). Biography Kira Petrova was born in Leningrad, and as a child survived the Siege of Leningrad. From an early age she engaged in playing the violin, always loved to make people laugh all around. After school, she decided to become an actress. On the first attempt, she entered the Moscow Art Theatre School. In Moscow, which came to the commission of the Art Theatre, flew a telegram: ''We carry a pearl of laughter''. The course, where she studied, Kira Petrova proved stellar: Galina Volchek, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Igor Kvasha, Leonid Bronevoy, Irina Skobtseva, Pyotr Fomenko, Lyudmila Ivanova and others. Kira married the Institute's future director Yacov Kreylis and took the surname Kreylis-Petrova. Careers In 1955, Kira Kreylis-Petrova grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Natalia Leonidovna Krachkovskaya (russian: Ната́лья Леони́довна Крачковская, née Belogortseva; 24 November 1938 – 3 March 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actress, Meritorious Artist (1998). Belogortseva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. After graduation, she submitted documents to VGIK on the course of Vladimir Belokurov In 1958, Natalia Belogortseva was married to sound engineer, Vladimir Krachkovskii. In marriage, their son Vasily was born (June 8, 1963). For more than 50 years of film career, Krachkovskaya starred in about 90 films. Usually she played minor, but characteristic roles. She became famous during the 1970s with roles in the movies ''The Twelve Chairs'' and '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future''. Natalia Krachkovskaya died on 3 March 2016 at the age of 77. Selected filmography During her career Krachkovskaya had appeared in more than 90 movies and TV series. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zemlyanikin (russian: Владимир Михайлович Земляникин; 27 October 1933 – 27 October 2016) was a film and theater actor. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994).Почётное звание присвоено указом Президента России №1784 от 29 августа 1994 года Biography Vladimir Zemlyanikin born in Moscow on 27 October 1933. With the onset of , he and his mother were evacuated. After the war, Vladimir became involved in the initiative in the City Pal ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vasilyeva (russian: Екатерина Серге́евна Васильева; born 15 August 1945 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She performed in more than ninety films since 1967. Vasilyeva was married to the late director Sergei Solovyov and playwright Mikhail Roshchin. Selected filmography * 1965 ''They're Calling, Open the Door'' (Звонят, откройте дверь) as ''Physical education teacher'' * 1967 '' The Journalist'' as an employee of the department of letters * 1971 '' Bumbarash'' (Бумбараш) as ''Sofia Nikolaevna Tulchinskaya'' * 1973 '' This Merry Planet'' (Эта весёлая планета) as ''Z'' * 1974 ''The Straw Hat'' (Соломенная шляпка) as ''Madame Anais Bopertyui, hostess hats'' * 1978 '' An Ordinary Miracle'' (Обыкновенное чудо) as ''Emilia'' * 1980 ''Air Crew'' (Экипаж) as ''Timchenko’s wife'' * 1980 ''Do Not Part with Your Beloved'' (С лю ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
