Ruben Simonov
Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp
Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов (2 April 1899, Moscow, Russian Empire – 5 December 1968, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Simonov was born in a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture.[1] In 1939 he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.
Selected filmography[]
- Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
- The Fall of Berlin (1950)
- The Gadfly (1955)
References[]
- ^ Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan, trans. Nicholas Kournokoff and Vladimir Bobrov. New York, Sphinx Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-943071-00-3.
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- Симонов Рубен Николаевич (Simonov, Ruben Nikolayevich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
- Simonovs bio (in Russian)
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