1. Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre.
18 Facts About Nikolai Karachentsov
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Nikolai Karachentsov was awarded the Order of Honour and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class.
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Nikolai Karachentsov was born in Moscow on 27 October 1944.
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Nikolai Karachentsov directed plays in major musical theaters, took part in staging performances at the Bolshoi Theatre, Kazan Musical Theater, Ulaanbaatar Music Theater in Mongolia, administered a ballet school and organized the First National Ensemble of Vietnam, worked in Syria and London.
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Nikolai Karachentsov's parents separated, so when Yanina Evgenyevna would leave Moscow for work, Kolya studied and lived in a boarding school.
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Nikolai Karachentsov left his swimming lessons when, together with his mother, he moved to Ulaanbaatar for two years.
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In 1963, Nikolai Karachentsov entered the Moscow Art Theatre School, which he graduated with honors in 1967.
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Nikolai Karachentsov took vocal lessons from the famous musician Pavel Smeyan, who played in Juno and Avos the role of the Principal Writer.
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Nikolai Karachentsov began to act in cinema in 1967: the first films with his participation were Strokes to the Portrait of Vladimir Lenin, And Again May But the actor began to play actively in film only after the triumph of Till.
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Nevertheless, even at the beginning of his film career Nikolai Karachentsov played one of his best known roles - Busygin in the film adaptation of Alexander Vampilov's play The Elder Son.
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Nikolai Karachentsov's popularity was enhanced by roles in such films as The Dog in the Manger, The Adventures of the Elektronic, The Trust That Went Bust, White Dew, A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines, A Bright Personality, Deja Vu and many others.
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In total the filmography of Nikolai Karachentsov includes more than 100 roles in the cinema.
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Nikolai Karachentsov worked on dubbing foreign films, for example he voiced in Russian the roles of French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Nikolai Karachentsov was a member of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "NIKA".
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In 1975 Nikolai Karachentsov married Russian actress Lyudmila Porgina who gave birth to their son Andrey three years later.
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Nikolai Karachentsov's only cinema appearance after the crash was a minor role almost without words in the film White Dew: The Return in 2014.
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In 2017 Nikolai Karachentsov was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent unsuccessful treatment in Israel.
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On 26 October 2018 Nikolai Karachentsov died from kidney failure in a Moscow clinic, one day before his 74th birthday.