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- Mikhail Davidovich Volkov was born on September 26, 1932. He studied acting and graduated from Kiev Theatre Institute. After a stint in theatre companies of Nikolaev and Kiev in Ukraine, he moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
From 1968-2001 Mikhail Volkov was a permanent member of the legendary troupe of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Volkov made a remarkable stage career under directorship of Georgi Tovstonogov at the BDT. There his stage partners were such stars as Oleg Basilashvili, Tatyana Doronina, Kirill Lavrov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Lyudmila Makarova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Natalya Tenyakova, Emma Popova, Elena Popova, Olga Volkova, Valentina Kovel, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Borisov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Yefim Kopelyan, Sergey Yurskiy, Evgeniy Lebedev, Ivan Palmu, Pavel Luspekayev, Nikolay Trofimov, Georgiy Shtil, Pavel Pankov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Vadim Medvedev, Yuriy Demich, Gennadiy Bogachyov, Andrey Tolubeev, and many other remarkable Russian actors.
Mikhail Volkov was designated the title of Honorable Artist of Russia. He played over 100 roles in film, television, and on stage. He died on July 22, 2001, in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Actress
- Director
- Writer
Lyudmila Gladunko was born on 31 May 1947 in Proskurov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine]. She is an actress and director, known for Shestvie zolotykh zverey (1979), Dlya nachinayushchikh lyubit... (2010) and Moya Prechistenka (2006). She is married to Boris Tokarev. They have one child.- Lev Shostak was born on 27 November 1910 in Proskurov, Russian Empire [now Khmelnitsky, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Chetvyortyy periskop (1939), Zalp Avrory (1965) and The Music of Love: Claude Debussy's Passions (1995). He died on 2 January 1996 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Music Department
- Composer
Born in _Proskurov, Khmelnitskaya oblast, Ukrainskaya SSR, USSR [now Khmelnytskyy, Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine]_ on 16 March 1916, Jules Seidman emigrated to the United States in 1920 with his parents, Paul and Rose, entering through Ellis Island. Jules was four years and a violin prodigy. He performed at Carnegie Hall when still a child. Jules attended NYC schools completing his education in music at Columbia University. He greatly enjoyed his professional life working as a composer, musical director, assistant director, and director through the 1950s and until 1960 at NBC-TV in Hollywood, CA, and through the '60s and '70s at WNYC-TV in Manhattan. Among the shows he contributed to in Hollywood was Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951), and the TV special Astaire Time (1960), starring _Fred Astaire_.
Jules was married in 1955 to Nancy Lou Barnard whom he met while at Columbia. They had two sons: Mark Seidman (1958) and Paul Seidman (1960), both born in Hollywood. After relocating back east, they lived in Staten Island, NY from 1967 and through most of the '70s. He died suddenly of a heart attack on 11 October 1979 at the age of 63.- Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, one of the participants in the implementation of radial keratotomy, professor. Academician of RAMS, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987). Hero of Socialist Labor of the USSR (1987). On June 2, 2000, he died in a plane crash: the Eurocopter Gazelle helicopter belonging to the clinic, on which Fedorov returned from a conference from Tambov, crashed into a wasteland in the Brattsev area, near the Moscow Ring Road. On board were four people: Fedorov himself and his pilot Anatoly Lobov - in the front seats; behind - Anver Khusainov, who served as the navigator and Alexander Spiridonov, engineer at the Eye Microsurgery IRTC. All four died. According to the IAC, the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction of the helicopter. At the site of Fedorov's death (14 Salomei Neris St.) a chapel was built. He was buried in the rural cemetery of the village of Rozhdestvenno Mytishchi district, 60 km from Moscow.
- Alberto Gerchunoff was born on 1 January 1883 in Proskurov, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for The Jewish Gauchos (1975). He died on 2 March 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Nellie Casman was born on 24 December 1893 in Proskurov, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Maria's Lovers (1984), Pikkusisar (1999) and Tanssi kanssain (2018). She died on 27 May 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.