1. Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a Soviet in Russian stage, a film actor and a director.
14 Facts About Kirill Lavrov
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Kirill Lavrov was honoured with the following titles; People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin and People's Artist of Ukraine.
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Kirill Lavrov was baptised by the Russian Orthodox Church of St John the Divine in Lavrushinskoe Podvorie Monastery in Leningrad.
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Young Kirill Lavrov was brought up in Leningrad, in a multi-ethnic Ukrainian and Russian family with deep roots in St Petersburg society.
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Kirill Lavrov's grandfather, Sergey Vassilevich Lavrov was Dean of College at Russian Humanitarian Society and later was a notable figure among White emigre.
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Kirill Lavrov's father, Yury Lavrov, was a popular Russian and Ukrainian stage and film actor designated People's Artist of Ukraine in 1948.
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Kirill Lavrov was a good sportsman: he took gymnastics, fencing, skiing, and was a member of the youth football team at "Spartak" sports club in Leningrad.
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Kirill Lavrov was sent for training to Astrakhan at Technical School of Aviation, from which he graduated in 1945.
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In 1950, after being discharged from the Red Army, Kirill Lavrov went to Moscow and tried to enter the acting school at Moscow Art Theatre, but he was refused due to incomplete High school education which he could not have because of his military service during the war.
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Now disappointed and still single at age 25, Kirill Lavrov went to Ukraine and reunited with his parents in Kyiv.
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In 1955, Kirill Lavrov made his film debut at Lenfilm studios in Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades, directed by Ilya Frez.
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In 1964, Kirill Lavrov shot to fame with his leading role as Sintsov in The Alive and the Dead, a war drama by director Aleksandr Stolper.
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Kirill Lavrov received international acclaim for the leading role as Ivan Karamazov in an Oscar-nominated film The Brothers Karamazov, which he directed together with his co-star, Mikhail Ulyanov, after the death of the original film director Ivan Pyryev.
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Kirill Lavrov was married to a fellow actress Valentina Nikolaeva and the couple had two children; their son, Sergei Lavrov, is a businessman, and daughter Maria Lavrova, is a film and stage actress and a permanent member of the troupe at Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg.