Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov (; 13 December 1930 – 22 October 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film actor.

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Biography

Early life and education

Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov was born on 13 December 1930 in

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. His father Nikolai Nikolayevich, was a factory fitter and his mother, Klavdiya Aleksandrovna, a housewife. He also had a brother, Vyacheslav. With the beginning of the

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, Rybnikov the elder went to the front, and the mother took her sons and moved to

Stalingrad Volgograd,. geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area o ...

to her sister, believing that it would be safe there. But from the front they received news of the death of his father. Soon after receiving the tragic news, Klavdiya Aleksandrovna also died. Nikolai Rybnikov grew up in Stalingrad and graduated from the local railway school. Afterwards, he studied at the Stalingrad Medical Institute for two years, but dropped out since he decided that the profession was not for him. In 1948, Nikolai went to Moscow to study as an actor and entered

VGIK The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, ...

( Sergei Gerasimov's and Tamara Makarova's course). He graduated in 1953. He was an actor of the auxiliary staff of the Stalingrad Drama Theater. Since 1953, the actor was employed at the National Film Actors' Theatre.

Career

His film debut was as Drozdov in ''The Team from Our Street'' (1953). The picture went almost unnoticed, however next year the directors Aleksander Alov and Vladimir Naumov cast him in the film ''Anxious Youth''. Rybnikov's work as laconic Kotka Grigorenko was positively noted by the critics. His next role was of rural mechanic Fedor in Mikhail Schweitzer's film ''

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''. Fame came to the actor after the film '' Spring on Zarechnaya Street'' (1956), directed by Feliks Mironer and

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. Next year he acted in another successful film, '' The Height'' directed by

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. In 1958, Nikolai Rybnikov starred in the

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film '' The Girl Without an Address''. Although the public took the film well (it took second place at the box office), it received weak critical reviews. Nevertheless, in 1961 the actor agreed to appear in a comedy again, when director

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invited him to the main role of the lumberjack Ilya Kovrigin in the film '' The Girls''. This picture had a huge audience success. Nikolai Rybnikov became a favorite of audiences in the late 1950s and early 1960s, performing romantic characters of cheerful young men, with integrity and purity revealed through sharp and dramatic relationships with others.Биография Николая Рыбникова
/ref> In the following years, Rybnikov acted a lot in film, including in ''He Submits to the Sky'', ''

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'', where he played the role of Vasily Denisov, '' Liberation'', '' The Hockey Players''. The picture ''The Seventh Heaven'' (1972) was a great success, in it Nikolai Rybnikov starred with his wife, Alla Larionova. In the late 1970s and 1980s, the actor was invited to appear less often and only in episodic roles. The most vivid role of Rybnikov of this period is pensioner-squabbler Kondraty Petrovich in the film ''Marry a Captain'' (1985), for which he received the

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Award in 1986 in the category of best actor in an episode role. Nikolay Rybnikov died on the morning of 22 October 1990 in his Moscow apartment from a heart attack, a month and a half before his sixtieth birthday. He was buried at the

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Personal life

His wife was actress Alla Larionova (1931—2000). He first met her as a student in

. They raised two daughters — Alyona from Larionova's previous relationship with

Ivan Pereverzev Ivan Fyodorovich Pereverzev (; 3 September 1914 – 23 April 1978) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1975). From his relationship with the actress Alla Larionova, he had a daughter, Alyona. Filmog ...

, and their biological child Arina.

Selected filmography

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/ref> *1954: '' Mysterious Discovery'' as Sailor *1954: ''The Team from our Street'' as Drozdov *1954: ''Substitute Player'' as Petrov *1955: ''Anxious Youth'' as Kotka Grigorenko *1956: ''

'' as Fyodor Gavrilovich Soloveikov *1956: '' Spring on Zarechnaya Street'' as Sasha Savchenko *1957: '' The Height'' as Nikolai Pasechnik *1958: '' The Girl Without an Address'' as Pasha Gusarov *1960: ''Normandie-Niémen'' as Captain Tarasenko *1962: '' The Girls'' as Ilya Kovrigin *1963: '' They Conquer the Skies'' as Alexei Kolchin, test pilot *1965: '' The Hockey Players'' as Vasily Lashkov *1966: '' War and Peace I: Andrei Bolkonsky'' as Denisov *1966: '' War and Peace II: Natasha Rostova'' as Denisov *1966: ''Uncle's Dream'' as Pavel Alexandrovich Mozglyakov *1967: '' War and Peace III: The Year 1812'' as Denisov *1967: '' War and Peace IV: Pierre Bezukhov'' as Denisov *1968: ''Wake Up Mukhin'' as Benkendorf / Titus Valerius / Inquisitor *1969: ''Kierunek Berlin'' as Polyak *1969: ''Old Friend'' as Anokhin *1970: '' Liberation I: The Fire Bulge'' as Major-General Panov *1970: '' Liberation II: Breakthrough'' as Major-General Panov *1971: '' Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow'' as Major-General Panov *1972: ''The Circle'' as Viktor Vasiltsev *1972: ''Marble House'' as Mamochko *1974: ''Because I Love'' as Roman Ignatyevich Belyy *1975: ''Ivanov's Family'' as Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov *1976: ''Fun for Oldies'' as Nepeivoda, accordionist *1977: ''A Second Attempt of Victor Krokhin'' as Fyodor Ivanovich *1977: ''I Have an Idea!'' as Prince Potyomkin *1981: ''Bless You, Dear'' as Nikolai Yerofeyev *1985: ''Marry a Captain'' as Kondraty Petrovich *1987: ''Night Crew'' as Nikitin *1989: ''Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation'' as MP candidate *1990: '' Get Thee Out'' as Innkeeper Nikifor *1991: '' Izydi!'' as Nikifor (final film role)

Awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Honored Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Zasluzhenny artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achievements in the ...

(1964) *

(1981) *

Award (1986) — best actor in an episode role

References

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