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Zerograd
''Zerograd''Christopher Llewellyn ReedFilm Review: In “Zerograd,” a Nation Collapses, And What Fun It Is October 25, 2022 (), also translated as ''City Zero'',Jonathan RosenbaumCity Zero October 26, 1985 ''Zero City''Diane Carson‘Zero City’ offers a wonderfully satiric critique of the Soviet world/ref> or ''Zero Town'',, ''Mosfilm'' YouTube channel is a 1989 Russian mystery film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, described as an absurdist comedy by Mosfilm. A Moscow engineer Alexey Varakin visits a factory in a small town on a business trip, where his bizarre adventures begin. At the factory he sees a naked secretary, but nobody seems to pay attention to this; later we encounters a prosecutor who wants to commit a crime, and other strange characters. In addition it turns out that he cannot leave the town. Plot Alexei Varakin is an engineer from Moscow, on a business trip to a nameless town in the Soviet Union. When Alexei arrives at the factory, the pass he requested is missi ...
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Leonid Filatov
Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov ( rus, Леонид Алексеевич Филатов, p=lʲɪɐˈnʲit əlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ fʲɪˈlatəf, a=Lyeonid Alyeksyeyevich Filatov.ru.vorb.oga; 24 December 1946 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of the troupe of the Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the Russian Federation State Prize and People's Artist of Russia in 1996. Biography Filatov was born on 24 December 1946, in Kazan. His father was Aleksey Yeremeyevich Filatov (1914—1982), and his mother was Klavdia Nikolaevna Filatova (1923—2007). The family frequently moved around, because his father was a radio operator and spent much time in field expeditions. When Leonid was seven years old his parents divorced, and Leonid moved along with his mother to Ashkhabad to join his mother's relatives. Wh ...
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Oleg Basilashvili
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili (born 26 September 1934) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984. Biography Childhood He was born to a family of mixed Russians, Russian, Polish people, Polish, and Georgians, Georgian origin. He is half Russian. Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili was born on 26 September 1934 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His father, named Valerian Basilashvili, was a director of the Moscow Polytechnical College. His mother, named Irina Ilyinskaya, was a teacher of linguistics. His father made up a humorous story that his grandfather had once arrested a dangerous criminal named Dzhugashvili, who was really Joseph Stalin. In reality Basilashvili's maternal grandfather was a Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox priest and an architect, who participated in the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. During the World War II, young Oleg Basilashvili was evacuated from M ...
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Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)Умер Владимир Меньшов
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was a and Russian and . He was noted for depicting the Russian and

Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1974. Early years Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was born on 9 October 1926 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR (modern day Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia) into a poor working-class family and spent his childhood at the outskirts in the Volodarsky village.''Yevgeny Yevstigneyev and a collective of authors (2017)''I'm Alive...— Moscow: AST, 288 pages He was a late child of Maria Ivanovna Yevstigneyeva (née Chernishova), a milling machine operator, and a metallurgist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yevstigneyev who was twenty years older than her and who died when Yevgeny was six years old. Maria Ivanovna married another man who died when Yevgeny turned seventeen.
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Aleksei Zharkov
Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov (; 27 March 1948 – 5 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov was born on March 27, 1948, in Moscow. In 1960, the director Mark Donskoy chose Aleksei for the role of Petit in his film ''Hello, Children!'' (1962), where the 14-year old Zharkov played one of the main roles a Soviet teenager who becomes friends with a Japanese girl who survived the tragedy of Hiroshima. In 1963, Zharkov was confirmed for an episodic role in Rolan Bykov's comedy ''The Lost Summer''. In 1966, Zharkov starred in the role of Kohl in the military film ''Such a Big Boy''. Aleksei Zharkov graduated from Moscow Art Theater School (acting course of Alexander Karev). Between 1971 and 1988 Zharkov was an actor of the Yermolova Theatre. In 1988–2000 years an actor of Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. Zharkov returned to Yermolova's Theater in 2000. Later, Zharkov took part in the per ...
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Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov (; born 8 July 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. He became the director general of Mosfilm in 1998. Biography Shakhnazarov is the son of a Georgy Shakhnazarov, a politician of Armenians, Armenian descent, and a Russians, Russian housewife, Anna Grigorievna Shakhnazarova. Shakhnazarov is one of several living descendants of the famous Melik-Shahnazarian princely family from Nagorno-Karabakh. The Melik-Shahnazarians ruled Nagorno-Karabakh's province of Varanda in medieval and modern times. His 1987 film ''Courier (film), Courier'' was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won a Special Prize. In 2002 he was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. His 2012 film ''White Tiger (2012 film), White Tiger'' was selected as the Russian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best F ...
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Attila
Attila ( or ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. As nephews to Rugila, Attila and his elder brother Bleda succeeded him to the throne in 435, ruling jointly until the death of Bleda in 445. During his reign, Attila was one of the most feared enemies of the Western Roman Empire, Western and Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empires. He crossed the Danube twice and plundered the Balkans but was unable to take Constantinople. In 441, he led an invasion of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, the success of which emboldened him to invade the West. He also attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (modern France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans), before being stopped in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. He subsequently invaded Roman ...
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Tatiana Khvostikova
Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Origin Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latin—name Tatius. King Titus Tatius was the name of a legendary ruler of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. After the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world, into the first centuries of Christianity, as well as the masculine diminutive Tatianus and its feminine counterpart, Tatiana. While the name later disappeared from Western Europe including Italy, it remained prevalent in the Hellenic world of the Eastern Roman Empire, and later spread to the Byzantine-influenced Orthodox world, including Russia. In that context, it originally honoured the church Saint Tatiana, who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, c. 230& ...
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Yury Sherstnev
Jury, Jurij, Iurii, Iouri, Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy or Yurij is the Slavic (, or , or , or ) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Czech Jiří, and Slovak and Croatian Juraj, akin to Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, and German Jürgen, and assimilated in modern forms such as German and Italian Juri, Portuguese Iúri, Estonian Jüri, and Dutch Joeri. The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuri Dolgoruky (c. 1099–1157), in early accounts recorded as ''Gyurgi, Dyurgi''. Ancient and medieval world (Listed chronologically) * Yuri Dolgorukiy or Yuri I Vladimirovich (c. 1099–1157). * Yuri II of Vladimir (1189–1238), Grand Prince of Vladimir * Yuriy Drohobych (1450–1494), Ruthenian philosopher, astrologist, writer, and doctor * Yury Ivanovich (1480–1536), a son of Ivan the Great Modern world (Listed alphabetically) * Yuri Andropov (1914–1984), Chairman of the KGB and leader of t ...
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Michael Solodovnik
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect)">Michael (surname)">he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (fashion designer), Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer ...
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Sergey Kara-Murza
Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza (; born January 23, 1939) is a Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist. Biography Sergey Kara-Murza was graduated with degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 1961. Between 1966 and 1972 he worked as a Soviet chemical specialist in Cuba. In 1983 Sergey Kara-Murza defended his doctoral thesis in history of science and technology and in 1988 became a professor. Sergey Kara-Murza taught in Russia and Spain and authored several publications and academic studies dedicated to history, science and society. His theory that the golden billion, the population of the most developed countries (including the poor) lives off the rest of humanity, is popular in the Russian-speaking world. His most prominent works: ''Mind Manipulations'' published in 2000 was dedicated to establishing and describing the problem of manipulation of public opinion by pro-Western mass media in Russia and '' Soviet Civilization'', a w ...
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