1. Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes.
11 Facts About Vasily Shukshin
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Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family of assimilated Moksha Mordvin origin in the village of Srostki near Biysk in Siberian Krai, Soviet Union.
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In 1933, his father, Makar Leontievich Vasily Shukshin, was arrested and executed on the charges of participating in an "anti-kolkhoz plot" during the Soviet collectivization.
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Vasily Shukshin was only rehabilitated 23 years later, in 1956.
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In 1946 Vasily Shukshin left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc.
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Vasily Shukshin first served as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea.
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In 1954 Vasily Shukshin entered the directors' department of the VGIK; he studied under Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960.
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Vasily Shukshin was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and was designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR.
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Vasily Shukshin laced his films with both humor and melancholy.
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Vasily Shukshin married actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva in 1964; she appeared in several of his films.
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Vasily Shukshin died suddenly on 2 October 1974, on the motor ship Dunai, on the Volga River, while filming They Fought for Their Country.