Yefim Kopelyan

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Role

Director | Actor

Date of birth

04/12/1912

Date of death

03/06/1975

Place of birth

Rechitsa, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rechytsa, Gomel Oblast, Belarus]

Yefim Kopelyan

Biography

Efim Zakharovich Kopelian (Yefim Kopelyan) was born on April 12, 1912, in Rechitsa, Gomel province, Russian Empire (now Rechytsa, Homel province, Belarus). He studied architecture at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), but after a year he dropped out of college and joined the stunts at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT). In 1935 he graduated from the Acting Studio of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) and became a permanent member of the main troupe. In 1941 Kopelyan married actress Lyudmila Makarova. Kopelyan was one of the leading actors of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad for 43 years. He began his acting career under directorship of Aleksei Dikij and then Boris Babochkin. Among his highest achievements were remarkable stage works under the directorship of Georgi Tovstonogov. Kopelyan's stage partners at the BDT were a stellar troupe of actors, including such prominent film stars as Lyudmila Makarova, Oleg Basilashvili, Tatyana Doronina, Valentina Kovel, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Kirill Lavrov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Sergey Yurskiy, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Oleg Borisov, Evgeniy Lebedev, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Nikolay Trofimov, Pavel Luspekayev, and many other remarkable Russian actors. Kopelyan shot to fame in the Soviet Union with his legendary narration in the TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973). Kopelyan's special and enigmatic voice in that narration gained him such a wide popularity that he became a hero of many popular jokes. A brilliant film actor, Kopelyan played major film roles in the trilogy 'Neulovimye Mstiteli' (1966-1971), Opasnye gastroli (1969), and Povest o chelovecheskom serdtse (1976) among other popular Russian films. Kopelyan himself considered his part as Ataman in epic film Dauriya (1972) as his best work in film. Yefim Kopelyan was designated the title of People's Artist of the USSR. He died of a heart failure on March 6, 1975, and was laid to rest in Necropolis of The Masters of Art "Literatorskie mostki" at Volkovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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The Seagull

The Seagull

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Avariya

Avariya

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6.7

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Role: Ataman Burmash
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Role: Dzhafar ali Mukhammedov
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Role: Svidrigaylov
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Role: ataman Burmash
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Role: Ataman Burmash
Interventsiya

Interventsiya

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Role: Filipp
Dauriya

Dauriya

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Role: Yelisey Kargin - ataman
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Role: general Andrey Sergeyev
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Role: Zhestyanshchik
Sudba rezidenta

Sudba rezidenta

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Role: Andrey Sergeyev - general KGB
The Seagull

The Seagull

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Role: Yevgeniy Dorn
Grossmeyster

Grossmeyster

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Role: Pavel maksimovich
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Role: Bobruisky- Dumbadze
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Role: Sergey Utekhin (voice)
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Son

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