Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Крю́ков; 8 July 1915 – 17 April 1993) was a Soviet film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1991).[1]

Nikolai Kryukov
Born	Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov (1915-07-08)8 July 1915 Zamytye, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	17 April 1993(1993-04-17) (aged 77) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupation	actor
Years active	1936–1992
Awards	Honored Artist of the RSFSR

Nikolai Kryukov was born on July 8, 1915, in a village in Tver province, USSR. His parents were farmers and in 1930 he decided to become an actor and moved to Leningrad. He worked at the Sevkabel plant in Leningrad, also attending acting classes at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in Leningrad, where he graduated in 1935 as an actor.

He worked as an actor during the Siege of Leningrad at the beginning of 1942 and was evacuated to Pyatigorsk where he was arrested by the Nazi Army and was taken to Germany as a POW, being released at the end of the war. He returned to acting after the war and married fellow actress Lilia Gurova.

He died of heart failure on 17 April 1993, aged 77.

Biography

Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov was born on July 8, 1915, in Zamytye, a village in Tver province, USSR. Both of his parents were farmers. Young Kryukov was fond of silent films. In 1930, he decided to become an actor and moved to Leningrad. During the 1930s he was industrial worker at the Sevkabel plant in Leningrad. At that time he also attended acting classes at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad, graduating in 1935 as an actor. From 1936 - 1941 he was permanent member of the troupe with E. Radlov's theatre, then at Lensoveta Theatre in Leningrad. In 1940, Kryukov made his film debut in 'Politruk Kolyvanov' (1940), but the film was not completed due to the German invasion of the USSR.

Kryukov worked as actor during the Siege of Leningrad. In the beginning of 1942, he was evacuated from besieged Leningrad to the city of Pyatigorsk. There he was arrested by the advancing Nazi Army and was taken to Germany as a POW. In Germany, Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov worked as actor until liberation at the end of WWII. He was then returned to the Soviet Union along with five million other POWs.

After the war, Kryukov undergone interrogation by the Red Army intelligence and the KGB, before he was allowed to work again as a stage actor with various theatre companies in such cities as Tbilisi, Tver, Rostov, and Riga. However, he was restricted from working in Leningrad until after the death of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin a series of political changes were initiated in the Soviet Union by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1958 Kryukov returned to Leningrad and became staff actor at the Lenfilm Studios. He was regarded for his roles in such films as Andromeda Nebula (1967), Devushka i Grand (1982), and in the popular Russian series about Sherlock Holmes.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov was married to fellow actress Lilia Gurova and the couple lived in St. Petersburg, Russia in the final years of his life. He was designated Honorable Actor of Russia (1992) and was a highly respected actor in Russia. He died of a heart failure on April 30, 1993, and was laid to rest in Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Selected filmography

• The Ships Storm Bastions (1953)
• The Last Inch (1958)
• Virgin Soil Upturned (1959–61)
• A Trip Without a Load (1962)
• The Andromeda Nebula (1967)
• Strong with Spirit (1967)
• The Sannikov Land (1974)
• In the Zone of Special Attention (1978)
• Aquanauts (1979)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
• Treasure Island (1982)
• Anna Pavlova (1983)
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1985)

References

External links

• Nikolai Kryukov at IMDb

На других языках

[ru] Крюков, Николай Николаевич (актёр)