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Kirill Serebrennikov was born on 7 September 1969 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Leto (2018), The Student (2016) and Petrov's Flu (2021).- Writer
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov was a part-time assistant in his father's business and also a singer in a church choir. At age 15, he was abandoned by his bankrupt father and lived alone for 3 years while finishing the Classical Gymnazium in Taganrog. Chekhov obtained a scholarship at the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, from which he graduated in 1884 as a Medical Doctor. He practiced general medicine for about ten years.
While a student, Chekhov published numerous short stories and humorous sketches under a pseudonym. He reserved his real name for serious medical publications, saying "medicine is my wife; literature - a mistress." While a doctor, he kept writing and had success with his first books, and his first play "Ivanov." He gradually decreased his medical practice in favor of writing. Chekhov created his own style based on objectivity, brevity, originality, and compassion. It was different from the mainstream Russian literature's scrupulous analytical depiction of "heroes." Chekhov used a delicate fabric of hints, subtle nuances in dialogs, and precise details. He described his original style as an "objective manner of writing." He avoided stereotyping and instructive political messages in favor of cool comic irony. Praised by writers Lev Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, he was awarded the Pushkin Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1888.
In 1890, Chekhov made a lengthy journey to Siberia and to the remote prison-island of Sakhalin. There, he surveyed thousands of convicts and conducted research for a dissertation about the life of prisoners. His research grew bigger than a dissertation, and in 1894, he published a detailed social-analytical essay on the Russian penitentiary system in Siberia and the Far East, titled "Island of Sakhalin." Chekhov's valuable research was later used and quoted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his "Gulag Archipelago." In 1897-1899, Chekhov returned to his medical practice in order to stop the epidemic of cholera.
Chekhov developed special relationship with Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater. He emerged as a mature playwright who influenced the modern theater. In the plays "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," "Seagull," and "Cherry Orchard," he mastered the use of understatement, anticlimax, and implied emotion. The leading actress of the Moscow Art Theater, Olga Knipper-Chekhova, became his wife. In 1898, Chekhov moved to his Mediterranean-style home at the Black Sea resort of Yalta in the Crimea. There he was visited by writers Lev Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, and artists Konstantin Korovin and Isaac Levitan.- Actor
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Alexandr Kajdanovsky, Russian actor, director and screenwriter, now best remembered for his work in Andrei Tarkovsky's films. Kajdanovsky left Junior High School to enroll in technical college where he was training to become a welder. Apparently a prospect of becoming a worker did not appeal to him and in 1965 he started studying acting at The Shchukhin Theatre School in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film Tainstvennaya stena (1968) (A Mysterious Wall), and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor. Still unsatisfied with his work Kajdanovsky joined the army in 1973 spending some years in cavalry.
It was a famous film director Nikita Mikhalkov who discovered Kajdanovsky and gave him the lead in his civil war drama At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) (At Home among Strangers, Stranger at Home). By the late 1970s Kajdanovsky had had credits in some noted films, including adventure stories Propavshaya ekspeditsiya (1975) (The Lost Expedition), Zolotaya rechka (1977) (Golden River), a fantasy Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979) (Pilot Pirks Tested). The greatest twist in his career came with Andrei Tarkovsky giving him the lead in Stalker (1979). Kajdanovsky attended Tarkovsky's writing seminar and under his teacher's influence he wrote and directed Prostaya smert (1985) (An Ordinary Death) - an adaptation of one of Leo Tolstoy's stories - the film won honour at the Malaga film festival. Kajdanovsky's starring role in Spanish film El aliento del diablo (1993) (The Devil's Breath) and in Hungarian Büvös vadász (1994) (Magic Hunter) made him an international celebrity and resulted in him having been invited to become the juryman of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately alcohol ruined his life, he could hardly maintain his career between the bouts of drinking, he died on December 3, 1995, 3 months short of 50.- Additional Crew
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Dmitry is recognized as one of the most distinguished Ballroom Dancers and Choreographers in The United States and around the World. A Star Professional on "Dancing With The Stars," an EMMY Nominated Choreographer for his work on "So You Think You Can Dance," and is one of America's favorite dancers.
Dmitry's Ballroom dancing career began at the age of 12 in his hometown of Rostov-on-Don in Russia. He moved to the United States in 1999 and after studying both in America and the United Kingdom, he began representing the United States at many world famous ballroom competitions. Dmitry won many of titles, becoming a National Finalist in 2006, and ultimately a semi-finalist and finalist in prestigious International global competitions.
In 2006, Dmitry's dance career took a different course - he won a place on the FOX hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" and became one of America's Top 10 dancers. He soon established himself as a favorite America and all around the World. This led to offers and invitations to choreograph and perform not only in the USA but many in Countries generating even more critical acclaim.
After a series of guest performances on "American Idol," Dmitry was invited as a 'special guest' to dance with Gloria Estefan on the phenomenal and EMMY winning episode "Idol Gives Back." Numerous TV offers followed, leading to special guest appearances on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, Larry King Live, KTLA news, The View and many more. 2009 was a milestone year for Dmitry when he choreographed an Argentinean Tango on "So You Think You Can Dance". This earned him an EMMY Nomination for best choreography. That same year, Dmitry also became Runner Up Champion in "Dancing With The Stars" with his partner Mya, receiving a record breaking number of votes making him one of the most popular dancers on the show.
Dmitry headlined the Vegas spectacular show "Dancing with The Stars - Live!" and during this time made frequent guest appearances on TV and choreographing on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With The Stars. He was invited to perform and guest teach at many prestigious conventions and industrials, which he still does today when he has time.
He was invited to headline the new live tour of "Ballroom With A Twist" and makes frequent appearances with them all over the United States. Last year, 2013, proved to be the next exciting stage in Dmitry's career. He was not only invited to choreograph an entire episode of the FOX hit show "BONES" but seeing him work the Producers offered him the Guest Star roll of Kendrick Mann, the suspect, in the premier episode of the Season. It was the highest rating show of "Bones" that year.
Dmitry has been invited back to choreograph for the forthcoming seasons of "Dancing With The Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance". At the start of 2014 Dmitry Guest Starred on the hit ABC Family show "Baby Daddy" where he played the role of Vladimir the Ballroom expert and once again choreographed the entire episode. Recently in 2015 he Guest Starred on another ABC show "Manhattan Love Story" and later on the new Sharon Stone's series "Agent X", to be aired later this year.
Balancing a career that combines acting, dancing, choreographing, teaching, personal appearances on TV, at events and conventions across America, Dmitry is in constant demand all around the world. His high profile TV appearances have made him a highly sought after personality and has become an inspiration and motivator to many young people and future stars who, through his example, are given hope that their dreams can become real.- Konstantin Lavronenko was born on 20 April 1961 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for The Return (2003), Kajínek (2010) and Coma (2019).
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Pavel Derevyanko was born on 2 July 1976 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Podelniki (2021), Fortress of War (2010) and Catherine the Great (2015).- Actress
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Faina Ranevskaya was born Faina Georgievna Feldman in Taganrog. Her father was the head of the local synagogue. Her family eventually left the country, but Faina stayed in the Soviet Union and went on to become one of the country's most acclaimed stage and screen actresses. One of her most famous movie roles was as the stepmother in a 1947 musical adaptation of "Cinderella" (called "Zolushka" in Russian). After her death, Ranevskaya was buried in the Donskoye Cemetery. Post-Soviet Russia issued a stamp bearing her likeness. The Ranevskaya Monument was unveiled in 2008 in front of her birth house.- Actor
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Adia Kuznetzoff was born on 6 April 1889 in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Pacific Liner (1939), The Princess and the Pirate (1944) and Arabian Nights (1942). He died on 10 August 1954 in Port Washington, Long Island, New York, USA.- Actor
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Composer, violinist and educator, educated at first by his father and then the Imperial School at St. Petersburg with Auer. He made his violin debut at Berlin in 1907, followed by a tour of Europe. His American debut was with the Boston Symphony in 1911. Thereafter, he joined the faculty at the Curtis Institute in 1929 and became a director there in 1941. Conflicting sources give his date of birth as April 9th or April 21st, but because he was born in Russia prior to the 1917 Revolution, both dates can be considered as correct; one date is in the Old Style Calendar (pre-1917) while the other is within the New Style Calendar adopted with the revolution in 1917. His first wife was famed soprano Alma Gluck, one of the first sopranos to make best-selling recordings. He was the half-brother of author Marcia Davenport, the grandfather of Stephanie Zimbalist, and the father of Efrem Zimbalist Jr..- Rostislav Plyatt was born on 13 December 1908 in Rostov-on-Don, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Spring (1947), Twelve Chairs (1971) and Serebristaya pyl (1953). He died on 30 June 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Vyacheslav Chepurchenko was born on 29 July 1987 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Prizrak (2021), The Bride (2017) and Peresud (2022). He has been married to Ekaterina Chepurchenko since 2019. They have two children. He was previously married to Viktoriya Ilina.
- Valentina Telegina was born on 15 February 1915 in Novocherkassk, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Spring (1947), Ballad of a Soldier (1959) and Dom, v kotorom ya zhivu (1957). She died on 4 October 1979 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Valya Karnaval was born on 11 November 2001 in Rostov-na-Donu. She is an actress, known for Otpusk (2021), Ekstrim and Zvyozdy (2024).
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Viktor Merezhko was born on 28 July 1937 in Olgenfeld, Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union [now Yuzhny, Russia]. He was a writer and director, known for Khutoryanin (2013), Zdravstvuy i proshchay (1973) and Zhuravl v nebe (1978). He was married to Tamara Vadimovna Merezhko. He died on 30 January 2022 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.- Director
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Rusian-born Marion Gering was a stage producer and director who came to the US in 1924 as a member of a Soviet trade commission. Making contacts in the theatrical community in Chicago, Gering put on the play "Gas", which was very successful. He stayed in Chicago and founded the Chicago Play Producing Co., which was also successful. He directed many plays on Broadway before being summoned to Hollywood in 1931 by Paramount, which placed him at the helm of many of Sylvia Sidney's pictures. Gering's Hollywood career ended in the late 1930s, although he made sporadic attempts to revive it over the next 20 years with foreign productions, none of which were particularly successful.- Georgiy Martirosyan was born on 31 January 1948 in Rostov-on-Don, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Aigel: You're Born (2020), Pirates of the 20th Century (1980) and I'm Staying (2007).
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Sergey Zhigunov was born on 2 January 1963 in Rostov na Donu, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and producer, known for The Three Musketeers (2013), Koroleva Margo (1996) and The Three Musketeers (2013). He has been married to Vera Novikova since 6 October 2009. He was previously married to Vera Novikova.- Composer
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Stanislas Syrewicz was born on 22 August 1946 in Azov, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a composer, known for Stalin (1992), The Holcroft Covenant (1985) and Extreme Ops (2002).- Director
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Angelina Nikonova was born on 27 February 1976 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is a director and writer, known for Twilight Portrait (2011), Welcome Home (2014) and Anybody Seen My Girl? (2020).- Writer
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Mikhail Sholokhov was a Russian writer who received a Nobel prize for his epic novel 'Tikhiy Don'.
He was born in 1905 into a Cossack family of farmers in Kruzhilin, Veshenskaya, Rostov province in Southern Russia. His high school studies were interrupted by the Russian revolution and the Civil War, in which he fought on the side of the revolutionaries and joined the Red Army. From 1922-24 he lived in Moscow, where he attended "writers seminars" and published his early works: "A Test" and "The Birthmark". In 1924 he married Maria Gromoslavskaya in his native town, and the couple had four children.
His first book, "Donskie Rasskazy" (1925), exposed the bitter divide among the Russian people during and after the Civil War. His epic novel "And Quiet Flows the Don", published in parts during 1928-40, shows the turbulent life of Cossacks during the dramatic events of the Russian revolution and Civil War. The main character, Grigori Melekhov, was based on a historical prototype, 'Kharlampi Ermakov', a Cossack who opposed the Communists and was imprisoned and executed in 1929. Sholokhov's account of the conflict between Cossacks and Communists caused a suspension of publication in 1929, but he managed to get permission from Joseph Stalin to continue the publication. The novel had over 100 million copies in print, translated in 90+ languages worldwide.
Sholokhov was only 22 in 1928, when he delivered the massive manuscript of "Quiet Flows the Don" (book 1) to a Soviet publisher. It took him almost 14 years to complete the novel of four books in 1940. This led to a suggestion by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that Sholokhov used the work of another Cossack writer, Fyodor Kryukov (who died in 1920), for some parts of this epic work.
Sholokhov had a lifelong political career. He was a co-chairman of the Soviet Writers Union from the 1930s to his death in 1984. He traveled in western Europe on several occasions, and also accompanied Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to the US in 1959. He was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and stories about the Cossacks in Russia, becoming the first and only officially sanctioned Soviet writer to win the honor.
Sholokhov took a hardline position against dissident writers, such as Boris Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky and Daniel. In 1965 he joined the side of Leonid Brezhnev in the restoration of the political image of Joseph Stalin. Such restoration was opposed by such figures as Andrei Sakharov, Valentin Kataev, Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy, Oleg Efremov, and Maya Plisetskaya. Sholokhov remained a hard-liner during the 60s and 70s. In late 70s he suffered from diabetes and had a stroke, and later developed a throat cancer. He was in denial of his medical condition. Shortly before his death he rejected the doctor's advise and interrupted his treatment at the Kremlin Hospital. Instead, he returned to his native village and died there on February 21, 1984.- Russian actress Yuliya Burova was born in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, a city on the Severski Donets river. As a child, Yulia spent over 5 years training in gymnastics, but she had to give up the sports when the family moved to Moscow.
At 13, Burova joined the "Kvadrat" theater studio and immediately realized that she wanted to be an actress.
While in the 9th grade, Yulia attempted to get into the Moscow Theater College curated by Oleg Tabakov's Moscow theater, but didn't get through the first audition. This didn't affect her resolve, so in 2017 she got into Andrey Konchalovskiy's class in GITIS after her very first interview.
In 2018 Andrey Konchalovskiy invited Yuliya Burova, at that moment a second-year student, to take part in his "Cherry Orchard" production, based on Anton Chekhov' play of the same name, at the Mossovet State Academic Theater.
In 2019 she made film debut in [link= Dear Comrades! (2020)] by Andrey Konchalovskiy. - Mariya Syomkina was born on 26 October 1976 in Rostov-on-Don, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for That still Karlosson! (2012), Lichnyy nomer (2004) and Antidur (2007). She was previously married to ? Syomkin.
- Igor Taradaikin was born on 28 September 1957 in Rostov-na-Donu, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Zhenikhi (1986), Letniye vpechatleniya o planete Z (1987) and I v zvukakh pamyat otzovyotsya... (1987).
- Irina Bezrukova was born on 11 April 1965 in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Kolya (1996), December and Esenin (2005). She was previously married to Sergey Bezrukov and Igor Livanov.
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Vasily M. Vakulenko (born April 20, 1980, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) - Russian musician (performer of rap and other genres, beatmaker, composer), TV and radio host, actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Since 2007 - co-owner of the label "Gazgolder". Ambassador of the World Cup 2018 from Rostov-on-Don. Known under the creative pseudonyms and projects of Basta, Noggano, N1NT3ND0 (Nintendo); previously - Basta Khru, Basta Bastillio. Co-founder and member of the team Bratia Stereo, a former member of the groups "Ulichniye Zvuki" (1996), "Psikholirik" (1997-1998), "Obyedinennaya Kasta" (1998-2000), "Svobodnaya Zona" (2000-2001). In 2011, he was the host of Next FM radio, then the host of Hip-Hop TV on Gazgolder. In 2015, he became a mentor in the fourth and seventh seasons of the TV show "Golos (2012)", and in 2018 - the fifth season of the TV show "Golos. Deti". In 2016-2017, he was the host of Gazgolder Live on DFM radio station, and from 2018 he is an interviewer on the GazLive show on YouTube. In 2017, he was a member of the jury in the Golos Ulits project on Pyatnitsa! TV-channel.