Nikolay Dupak

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Nikolay Dupak
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Born
Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak

(1921-10-05) 5 October 1921 (age 100)
Starobesheve, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Occupationactor
Years active1941–present
Spouse(s)Raisa Dupak

Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (Russian: Николай Лукьянович Дупак; born 5 October 1921) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, the head of theaters.[1] Front-line soldier, invalid of the World War II.[2] Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980), Merited Artist of Ukraine (2012). Honorary Artist of Moscow (2019).

Biography[]

Born on October 5, 1921 in Ukraine in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk Oblast in a large Ukrainian family. Countryman-fellow villager of Pasha Angelina.[1]

In the spring of 1941, Dupak, a young student of the Rostov Theater School, was approved for the role of Andrei in the film Taras Bulba directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, however this picture was not filmed.[3] But when they began to shoot the picture, the war began. Nikolai joined the people's militia. Then he served in the cavalry, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times.

Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acted in films. Then he moved to Taganka Theatre. It was he who invited Yuri Lyubimov and Vladimir Vysotsky to the theater.[1] He persuaded the artist David Borovsky, who worked in Kiev, to move to Moscow. Dupak's creative career lasted 80 years.

Selected filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Вы помните, конструкции упали? Смерть в Большой театре!
  2. ^ Как встретил войну, прошёл через неё и зажёг Вечный огонь. Легендарный директор Театра на Таганке Николай Дупак
  3. ^ Воспоминания Николая Дупака

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