Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.
Eugene Pavlovich Leonov was a famous Russian/Soviet actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as Gentlemen of Fortune, Mimino and Striped Trip. Called "one of Russia's best-loved actors", he also provided the voice for many Soviet cartoon characters, including Vinny Pukh (Winnie-the-Pooh).
Anatoli Dmitrievich Papanov was a Soviet stage, film and voice actor, drama teacher, and theatre director at the Moscow Satire Theatre where he served for almost 40 years. A prominent character actor, Papanov is mostly remembered for his comedy roles in a duo with his friend Andrei Mironov, although he had many dramatic roles as well. As a voice actor he contributed to over hundred cartoons. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and awarded the USSR State Prize posthumously.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Meritorious Artist of Russian SFSR (1978).
Stanislav Andreyevich Lyubshin is a Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is the father of Tatiana Samoilova.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1974.
Yevgeny Vitalevich Mironov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1996), People's Artist of Russia (2004), State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate - 1995, 2010. Yevgeny Mironov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik was a Russian and Soviet stage and a film actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in the Second World War. He worked at the Maly Theatre from 1963 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.
Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev is a Russian-American actor, theatre director and screenwriter of Balkar origin. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev is a Russian film director and a screenwriter. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev is the Russian painter, living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. At the age of seven, Kouliev was influenced by Vladimir Visotsky an acclaimed Russian actor, poet and singer, one of his father's younger colleagues in a poetry field. Alim decided to become an actor.
Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is best known as Nagulnov in Podniataya Tselina, based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel; and Nekhludov in Resurrection, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.
Yevgeny Ivanovich Goryansky was a Russian football striker and football coach.
Yevgeny Arsenievich Kindinov is a Russian theatre and film actor. He spent his entire professional career at the Moscow Art Theatre, and, after the theater was split in 1987, at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. He is a People's Artist of Russia.
Aleksei Vasilievich Loktev was a Russian and Soviet actor.
Yevgeny Gavrilovich Sokolov was an artist, who specialised in set design and postcards. He was one of the most active Muscovite postcard artists. He produced collections of postcards based on the themes of popular songs and Russian proverbs.
Yevgeny Eduardovich Tsyganov is a Russian film and theater actor.
Election Day is a 2007 Russian comedy film directed by Oleg Fomin.
Yevgeny Alekseevich Stychkin is a Russian actor, known for his roles in God Loves Caviar and Trotsky.
