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Breakthrough (1986 Film)
''Breakthrough'' () is a 1986 Soviet disaster film A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters may include natural disasters, accidents, offensive (military), military/terrorism, terrorist att ... directed by Dmitri Svetozarov. The film shows a major accident that occurred during the construction of a tunnel leading to the fictional station Petrovskaya of Leningrad Metro. It is based on a similar accident in 1974, in the tunnel between stations Lesnaya and Ploschad Muzhestva, playing up its unique design and geological conditions. Plot The film depicts a major accident that occurs during the construction of a transit tunnel leading to the fictional “Petrovskaya” station in the Leningrad Metro. Lenmetrostroy’s chief, Poluektov, decides to route the tunnel through an underground river. During drilling, a quicksand flow breaks through the frozen soil and begins to fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandr Kutikov
Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov (; 13 April 1952 in Moscow) is a Soviet/Russian rock musician, composer, producer, and businessman. Biography Kutikov was born in a Russian-Jewish family in Patriarshiye Ponds, Moscow. He was a fan of groups such as The Beatles during his secondary school years. He later became the bass-guitarist and one of the singers of the Soviet rock band Mashina Vremeni, from 1971 to 1976, and then from to 1979 to present time. Band became famous in the USSR and in Eastern Europe for composing the soundtrack of ''Dusha'' (Soul), released in 1981. Kutikov is also the founding president of the sound recording company Sintez Records. Kutikov wrote the music and performed the vocals for the song " Povorot" by Mashina Vremeni Mashina Vremeni () is a Russian rock band founded in 1969. Mashina Vremeni was a pioneer of Soviet rock music and remains one of the oldest still-active rock bands in Russia. The band's music incorporates elements of classic rock, blues, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Kuznetsov (actor)
Yury Ivan Kuznetsov (), is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and recipient of the Meritorious Artist award of Russia. Biography Yury Kuznetsov was born on September 3, 1946, in Abakan, Khakass Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1969, he graduated from the acting department of the in Vladivostok. He started a theatrical career and was a member of the following institutions: *1969 — 1979: Khabarovsk Drama *1979 — 1986: *1986 — 1999: He received the award of Meritorious Artist in 2006. Selected films *1984: '' My Friend Ivan Lapshin'' (Мой друг Иван Лапшин) as Superintendent *1985: ''Confrontation'' (Противостояние) as police major Zhukov *1986: '' Breakthrough'' (Прорыв) as sinker Vyazigin * 1988: '' Cold Summer of 1953'' (Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего…) as Ivan Zotov, director of trading post *1990: ''Afghan Breakdown'' (Афганский излом) as Shchup *1991: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenfilm Films
Lenfilm (, acronym of Leningrad Films) is a Russian production company, production and Film distribution, distribution 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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Disaster Films
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Russian Disaster Films
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Russian-language Drama Films
Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' official language of the former Soviet Union. Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Drama Films
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Krasko
Andrey Ivanovich Krasko (; 10 August 1957, Leningrad, USSR – 4 July 2006, Odesa, Ukraine) was a Russian theatre and cinema actor. Andrey Krasko first experienced theatrical production as a child at the Theater of Youth Creativity (1969–1974) directed by Matvey Dubrovin.Андрей Краско умер на съёмках Gazeta.ru Son of Russian actor . Filmography * 1979 — ''Personal Meeting'' * 1986 — ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Rostotsky
Andrei Stanislavovich Rostotsky (Russian: Андрей Станиславович Ростоцкий, January 25, 1957 – May 5, 2002) was a USSR, Soviet Russian film and theatre actor and stunt performer, film director and screenwriter, and also TV host.Интервью Андрея Ростоцкого в Самаре Надежда Пабауская, Марина и Андрей. Яковлева и Ростоцкий /ref> Biograp ...
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Andrey Makarevich
Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich (; born 11 December 1953) is an Israeli and Soviet-Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). Personal life Makarevich was born in Moscow to mixed-heritage parents of Belarusian ( royal peasantry), Polish aristocracy (from the Sas family), Greek and Jewish origin. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute as a graphic artist. He was born to a mother of Jewish origin, tuberculosis specialist, microbiologist Nina Markovna Makarevich (née Shmuylovich, 1926–1989) and a father of Belarusian origin, architect and teacher of the Moscow Architectural Institute Vadim Grigorievich Makarevich (1924–1996). Until 2011, he was a supporter of the Presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, believing that at that time there was no alternative to them, and that many problems were caused not by the authorities, but by the society itself. Starting in 2011, he opposed the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Borisov
Oleg Ivanovich Borisov (8 November 192928 April 1994, born Albert Ivanovich Borisov) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1978). Biography Childhood and youth Oleg Borisov was born Albert Ivanovich Borisov on 8 November 1929 in Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Oblast. His given name was Albert, which was chosen by his mother in honor of the Belgian prince Albert, who visited Moscow in 1929. His parents were agricultural professionals. His mother, Nadezhda Andreyevna, was an agricultural engineer, and also played as an amateur actress at a local drama. His father, Ivan Borisov, was a wounded World War II veteran, who worked as director of Privolzhsk Agricultural Technical School. Becoming an actor Young Oleg Borisov was fond of acting and theatre, he was known as a good impersonator and comedian among his classmates at school. However, during the Second World War young Oleg Borisov was a tractor driver at a collective farm near Moscow. At the same ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploschad Muzhestva (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Ploshchad Muzhestva (, Square of Fortitude) is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. Opened on 31 December 1975. The station got its name because of its location next to the eponymous Muzhestva Square (roundabout). The square and the station were designed as a starting point on the way to Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery () is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad. On his first visit to Russia in 1993, ... where hundreds of thousands of victims, mostly civilian, of the 1941-44 siege of the city during World War II are buried. Saint Petersburg Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1975 Railway stations located underground in Russia {{Russia-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
