Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov (Russian: Леонид
Ð'Ñ Ñ‡ÐµÑ Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ КуравлÑ'в) (born 8 October 1936) is a
Soviet and Russian film actor. He was named People's Artist of the
RSFSR in 1976.Leonid Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a poor
working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov
(1909â€"1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building
Association and his mother Valentina Dmitrievna Kuravlyova
(1916â€"1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Great
Patriotic War his mother was arrested on false report, accused of
counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda,
Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed
without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk
Oblast at the Russian North where she continued working as a
hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son
who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally
returned to Moscow.In 1955 Leonid Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study
acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the
Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances
while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and
took part in his diploma film From Lebyazhye They Report. In 1961 they
both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in
1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is
Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considers to
be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son
and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for
him that he later named his son after Vasily Shukshin.The role of
Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Shveitser's comedy The Little Golden Calf
based on the book by Ilf and Petrov became the next step in his
career: he managed to create an unforgettable sparkling image of a
naive petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include
Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967),
antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the
Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin's Life
and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt
Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in
Pyotr Todorovsky's The Last Victim (1975).
Ð'Ñ Ñ‡ÐµÑ Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ КуравлÑ'в) (born 8 October 1936) is a
Soviet and Russian film actor. He was named People's Artist of the
RSFSR in 1976.Leonid Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a poor
working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov
(1909â€"1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building
Association and his mother Valentina Dmitrievna Kuravlyova
(1916â€"1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Great
Patriotic War his mother was arrested on false report, accused of
counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda,
Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed
without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk
Oblast at the Russian North where she continued working as a
hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son
who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally
returned to Moscow.In 1955 Leonid Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study
acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the
Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances
while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and
took part in his diploma film From Lebyazhye They Report. In 1961 they
both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in
1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is
Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considers to
be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son
and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for
him that he later named his son after Vasily Shukshin.The role of
Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Shveitser's comedy The Little Golden Calf
based on the book by Ilf and Petrov became the next step in his
career: he managed to create an unforgettable sparkling image of a
naive petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include
Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967),
antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the
Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin's Life
and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt
Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in
Pyotr Todorovsky's The Last Victim (1975).
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