Nikolay Vladimiriovich Olyalin (Russian: Риколай
Ð'ладимирович ÐžÐ»Ñ Ð»Ð¸Ð½; May 22, 1941 - November 17,
2009) was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.As a child,
Olyalin took drama classes at school. On 1959, When his father sent
him to a military academy in Leningrad, hoping that he would become an
army topographer, Olyalin chose to study in the Leningrad State
Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography instead. After
graduating at 1964, he joined the Krasnoyarsk Children's Theater,
where - in spite of having tense relations with the director - he was
considered the best comical actor among the cast. There, he met his
wife, Nella, who was the second secretary of the local
Komsomol.Olyalin made his debut on screen depicting a test pilot in
the 1965 film Days of Flight. Afterwards, he received many invitations
to play in other motion pictures, but the Theater manager never told
him of those and threw them away. When a letter from the Mosfilm
studio reached Krasnoyarsk, offering Olyalin the main role in Yuri
Ozerov's Liberation, one of the couriers told him of the matter. He
claimed to be sick, took a leave and boarded a flight to Moscow. The
character of Captain Tzvetaev, which he portrayed in the five parts of
Liberation, gained him fame throughout the Soviet Union.At 1968,
during the filming of Ozerov's series, Olyalin met director Vasili
Tzvirkunov from the Dovzhenko Film Studios and accepted his proposal
to work with the company. He starred in several films during the early
1970s, among which was the popular Gentlemen of Fortune, and received
the Ukrainian SSR Komsomol's Nikolai Ostrovsky Prize on 1972. Overall,
he appeared in some sixty cinema and television productions until his
departure.
Ð'ладимирович ÐžÐ»Ñ Ð»Ð¸Ð½; May 22, 1941 - November 17,
2009) was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.As a child,
Olyalin took drama classes at school. On 1959, When his father sent
him to a military academy in Leningrad, hoping that he would become an
army topographer, Olyalin chose to study in the Leningrad State
Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography instead. After
graduating at 1964, he joined the Krasnoyarsk Children's Theater,
where - in spite of having tense relations with the director - he was
considered the best comical actor among the cast. There, he met his
wife, Nella, who was the second secretary of the local
Komsomol.Olyalin made his debut on screen depicting a test pilot in
the 1965 film Days of Flight. Afterwards, he received many invitations
to play in other motion pictures, but the Theater manager never told
him of those and threw them away. When a letter from the Mosfilm
studio reached Krasnoyarsk, offering Olyalin the main role in Yuri
Ozerov's Liberation, one of the couriers told him of the matter. He
claimed to be sick, took a leave and boarded a flight to Moscow. The
character of Captain Tzvetaev, which he portrayed in the five parts of
Liberation, gained him fame throughout the Soviet Union.At 1968,
during the filming of Ozerov's series, Olyalin met director Vasili
Tzvirkunov from the Dovzhenko Film Studios and accepted his proposal
to work with the company. He starred in several films during the early
1970s, among which was the popular Gentlemen of Fortune, and received
the Ukrainian SSR Komsomol's Nikolai Ostrovsky Prize on 1972. Overall,
he appeared in some sixty cinema and television productions until his
departure.
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