Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin (Russian: Ð'алерий
Сергеевич Золотухин, 21 June 1941 â€" 30 March 2013)
was a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor who performed at the
Taganka Theatre which he also headed between 2011 and 2013. He was
named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987.Zolotukhin was born in the
Bystry Istok village (modern-day Bystroistoksky District of the Altai
Krai, Russia) into a peasant family just one day before the Great
Patriotic War started. He was one of the three sons of Sergei
Illarionovich Zolotukhin, the head of the local kolkhoz who left for
the frontline the next day. Valeri spent war years with his mother
Matryona Fedoseyevna Zolotukhina. At the age of seven he survived
osteomyelitis of one of his legs, spent three years in bed and had to
learn to walk again. He remained lame by the time he decided to enter
a theatre institute and had to hide it.In 1963 Zolothukhin graduated
from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, the faculty of musical
theater, and entered the Mossovet Theatre where he served for a year.
In 1964 he moved to the newly established Taganka Theatre under Yuri
Lyubimov where he spent the rest 50 years, taking part in many plays.
He was a close friend of Vladimir Vysotsky and regularly performed
alongside him, both on stage and in movies. He later published several
books of memoirs about their friendship and Taganka Theatre in
general.
Сергеевич Золотухин, 21 June 1941 â€" 30 March 2013)
was a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor who performed at the
Taganka Theatre which he also headed between 2011 and 2013. He was
named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987.Zolotukhin was born in the
Bystry Istok village (modern-day Bystroistoksky District of the Altai
Krai, Russia) into a peasant family just one day before the Great
Patriotic War started. He was one of the three sons of Sergei
Illarionovich Zolotukhin, the head of the local kolkhoz who left for
the frontline the next day. Valeri spent war years with his mother
Matryona Fedoseyevna Zolotukhina. At the age of seven he survived
osteomyelitis of one of his legs, spent three years in bed and had to
learn to walk again. He remained lame by the time he decided to enter
a theatre institute and had to hide it.In 1963 Zolothukhin graduated
from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, the faculty of musical
theater, and entered the Mossovet Theatre where he served for a year.
In 1964 he moved to the newly established Taganka Theatre under Yuri
Lyubimov where he spent the rest 50 years, taking part in many plays.
He was a close friend of Vladimir Vysotsky and regularly performed
alongside him, both on stage and in movies. He later published several
books of memoirs about their friendship and Taganka Theatre in
general.
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