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Yevgeny Vesnik

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Birth Date:
15.01.1923
Death date:
10.04.2009
Person's maiden name:
Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik
Extra names:
Evgueni Vesnik, Jevgēņijs Vesņiks, Евгений Весник, Jevgenijs Vesņiks, Весник Евгений Яковлевич, Євген Весник, Євген Якович Весник, Evgueni Iakovlevitch Vesnik
Categories:
Actor, Director, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime
Cemetery:
Troyekurovskoye Cemetery

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; January 15, 1923 — April 10, 2009) was aRussian and Soviet stage and a film actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in the Second World War. He worked at the Maly Theatre from 1963 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.

Primarily a comedian, Vesnik is remembered as the first Soviet actor to play the character of Ostap Bender. After he was remembered as Teatcher Taratar, or Tarator in The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979), one of greatest Soviet films for children.

Among his other roles are the policeman (miliceman) in Old Khottabych, "Boss of Sport Complex" in Seven Old Men and One Girl, the Procurator in Bat, the commissioner in Charodey (1982), "radist" in Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach and many other films.

He died, aged 86, on April 10, 2009 in Moscow after suffering a stroke.

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        2Ляля  ЧёрнаяЛяля ЧёрнаяWife15.02.190902.09.1982
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