Soviet and Belarusian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1989). After graduating from a vocational school, he worked as a turner. In the Red Army since 1941. He added three years to get to the front at the age of 15. He graduated from junior lieutenant courses in Novosibirsk (1942). Member of World War II. The cavalryman of the 11th Cavalry Corps (reserve of the headquarters of the corps) was captured in July 1942 near Vyazma, near the village of Komary. He managed to survive in a Nazi concentration camp, escaped from captivity. After returning home, he was sent to a filtration camp in Vyshny Volochek; as a result of the verification, he was reinstated in the rank. After the war, he came to Vitebsk to his mother’s homeland, where she returned after a false notification of her son’s death. He took part in amateur performances, he was noticed and invited to the theater studio at the Belarusian Drama Theater named after Jan Kolas. There he met his wife, actress Galina Orlova. At the end of the studio in 1948 he worked as an actor in the theater (1948-1959). Since 1959 - actor of the Belarusian Drama Theater named after Jan Kupala (Minsk). He began acting in films in 1960. Member of the CPSU since 1964. He had two heart attacks. He died on June 30, 2000 as a result of a second heart attack. He was buried in Minsk at the Eastern cemetery.

Filmography

• The Waiting Room — Skvortsov - polkovnik militsii
• 1995Son for Father... — Alexander Nikolaevich
• 1993Gladiator for Rent — Гурий Лукачёв
• 1991No Return
• 1987The Apostate — Doron
• Solar Wind — Сергей Пономарёв
• 1980Amnesty
• 1980Old Debts
• 1980Petrovka Street, Number 38 — general
• 1979A Taste of Bread — Vedenin
• 1979Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow
• 1979Youth with Us
• 1978Дебют
• Soldiers of Freedom — Josip Broz Tito
• 1975Difficult Floors
• 1975Fire — chlen Stavki
• 1975Sokolovo
• 1974Ilga-Ivolga — Older Fyodor
• 1973Karpukhin — Ovsyannikov
• 1972Man in the Passage Yard — Sibul, militia captain
• Man in the Passage Yard — Sibul, militia captain
• 1972The Cool Guy
• 1972Большие перегоны — Railwayman
• 1971The Fall of the Empire — Sergey Dmitriyevich Vaulin
• 1971The Ruins Are Firing…
• 1970Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
• 1970Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
• 1970Lucky Man
• 1970Взрывники
• 1969Way's Tenth — Bukhteyev
• 1968Good Luck
• 1968Ivan Makarovich
• 1968Let's Remember This Day — Grigoriy Yasen
• 1967Next To You
• 1966Chase
• 1966Flying Days — Nikolai Nikolayevich
• 1965Musicians of the Same Regiment
• 1964Moscow – Genoa — Русанов
• 1962Men and Beasts — Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
• 1960First Trials

Appearances as themselves (1)

• When Idols Were Gone — Himself / ArchiveFootage