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Viktor Korshunov

Viktor Korshunov

Born	Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov (1929-11-24)24 November 1929 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	17 April 2015(2015-04-17) (aged 85) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director, pedagogue
Years active	1951—2015

Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Ко́ршунов; 24 November 1929 – 17 April 2015) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).

Biography

He was born in Moscow on Sukharevskaya Street.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1959.

He died in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Selected filmography

Early Joys (1956) – Kirill Izvekov
An Unusual Summer (1957) – Kirill Izvekov
The Magpie (1958) – Stepan
On Thin Ice (1966) – Dmitry Dmitriyevich Bragin
Retribution (1967) – Chief of the military hospital
Goal! Another Goal! (1968) – Andrei Pavlovich Tamantsev, coach
Bonivur's Heart (1969) – Boris Lyubansky
Corps of General Shubnikov (1980) – Army general

Awards and honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969)^[1]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
Order of the October Revolution (1974)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1980)
Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
People's Artist of the USSR (1984)^[2]^[3]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1994)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2005)^[4]

References

^ Виктор Коршунов: фильмография.
^ Виктор Иванович Коршунов. Биография.
^ Виктор Иванович Коршунов. Биография.
^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации Путина от 11 февраля 2005 года No. 144 Archived April 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine // graph.document.kremlin.ru