Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr Sergeievich Demyanenko was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the honorary distinction of Peoples Artist of the RSFSR. He began his acting career with the film Veter in 1958, and is well known for playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the 1965 comedy Operation Y and Other Shuriks Adventures, and ending with the 1997 film Old Songs of the Main Things 2.

Aleksandr Demyanenko was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union in 1937. He went to a music school from 1946 to 1952. In 1954 he failed to enter the school of arts. In 1955, however, he entered the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts in Moscow.

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