Nikolai Cherkasov

Acting

Born 1903-07-27 Died 1966-09-14 St Petersburg, Russian Empire 45 credits Stalin Prize 4 State Stalin Prize, 1st degree 3 Order of the Red Banner of Labour 2 Order of Lenin 2

Awards

Won 4 Stalin Prize Awards

Stalin Prize 4 won

1951 Stalin Prize Won Mussorgsky, Alexander Popov
1950 Stalin Prize Won
1946 Stalin Prize Won Ivan the Terrible
1941 Stalin Prize Won Alexander Nevsky

State Stalin Prize, 1st degree 3 won

1951 State Stalin Prize, 1st degree Won
1946 State Stalin Prize, 1st degree Won
1941 State Stalin Prize, 1st degree Won

Order of the Red Banner of Labour 2 won

1963 Order of the Red Banner of Labour Won
1938 Order of the Red Banner of Labour Won

Order of Lenin 2 won

1950 Order of Lenin Won
1939 Order of Lenin Won

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An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.