Grigory Naumovich Chukhray was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). He's the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhray.
Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev was a Soviet and Russian ballet master, dancer, choreographer and pedagogue. Moiseyev was widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.
Mikhail Ilyich Romm was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya was a Soviet and Ukrainian-born Russian stage and film actress and theater pedagogue. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses in the Soviet and Russian film industry. Her career spanned six decades.
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Annenkov was the longest-lived People's Artist of the USSR before Igor Moiseyev and Vladimir Zeldin.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Bakulev was a Soviet surgeon, one of the founders of cardiovascular surgery in the USSR.
Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1972), Hero of Socialist Labour (1985), Order of Lenin recipient (1985) and People's Artist of Ukraine (2003).
Lenin in 1918 is a Soviet biographical drama film released in 1939. It gives the background of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution.
Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1988).
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.
Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter. He directed twenty films between 1950 and 1995. Ozerov's works won him many awards, among them the title People's Artist of the USSR which was conferred upon him in 1977.
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71).
Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1968.
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov was a Soviet politician and diplomat who was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR between 1988 and 1990.
Boris Nikolayevich Livanov was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre from 1924 through 1972.
Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1966).
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Lebedev was a Soviet and Russian actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1968) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1987).
Lenin in October is a 1937 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev and starring Boris Shchukin, Nikolay Okhlopkov and Vasili Vanin. Made as a Soviet-realist propaganda work by the GOSKINO at the Mosfilm studio, it portrays the activities of Lenin at the time of the October Revolution. All Stalin scenes were expunged from the film for its reissue in 1958.
Boris Mikhailovich Tenin was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1981).
