Vsevolod Safonov

Vsevolod Safonov was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (26.11.1965), People's Artist of the RSFSR (28.03.1974). In the last year of the war he graduated from the Aviation Technical School, but the medical commission did not allow him to military service. Then something happened that determined all his future destiny. One day the comrades with whom he was engaged in a circle of amateur performances invited him to go along with them to take exams at the theatrical school named after B.V. Shchukin. And Safonov, completely not going to "study for an artist," was admitted to the class of Professor Anna Orochko. He graduated from the Theater School named after B.V. Schukin (1949). Since 1949 Safonov was the actor of the Chamber Theater. Since 1950 - actor of the Moscow Theater Satire. Since 1952 Safonov was the actor of the theater of the group of Soviet troops in Potsdam (GDR). Since 1955 - actor of the Leningrad Komissarzhevskaya Theater. Since 1958 Safonov was the actor of Theater Studio in