Overview
- RIA Novosti and TASS reported his death, with RIA citing actress Viktoria Parkhomenko from his theater-studio as confirmation.
- Outlets differed on his age at death, with RIA stating 87 and TASS noting he died in his 88th year.
- He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio and performed on the MKhAT stage for more than two decades.
- His screen career encompassed over 100 film and television roles, beginning with a 1965 debut and continuing into the 2010s and 2021.
- His theater-studio issued a necrology calling the loss irreparable and vowing to keep his “little MKhAT” alive, as tributes also arrived from cinematographer Anatoly Mukasey and STD chair Vladimir Mashkov.