Nikolai Gubenko died

On August 16, an actor, director and screenwriter, last Minister of Culture of the USSR Nikolai Gubenko died in Moscow. Today, August 17, he would have turned 79 years old.

It is reported by TASS .

Nikolai Nikolaevich Gubenko was born in 1941 in Odessa, his parents died during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he lived in an orphanage, then he was transferred to the Suvorov School, after which he entered the theater studio at the actor’s house.

In 1958 he was enrolled in the troupe of the Odessa Theater of a young spectator. In the early 1960s he moved to Moscow, graduated from the acting (1964) and the directorial (1969) faculties of VGIK.

Since 1964 he starred in a movie, played more than twenty roles. The most famous of them are Nikolai Fokin (“Ilyich’s outpost”, 1964) Vasily Blucher (“Password is not needed”, 1967), Lieutenant Goloshchekov (“They fought for their homeland”, 1975), Sergey Uvarov (“I ASK WORDS”, 1975).

In 1964-1968 and in the 1980s, Nikolai Gubenko was one of the leading actors of the Taganka Theater, in 1987-1991-the main director of the theater. In 1989-1991 he was the Minister of Culture of the USSR.

In 1993, he headed the theater "The Commonwealth of the Actors of Taganka" and remained its artistic director until 2000. Among the performances staged by Nikolai Gubenko in this theater, “White Pillars” (1994), “Four Tosts for Victory” (1995), “Air Force (Vysotsky Vladimir Semenovich)” (1998), Afghan (1999).

In addition, Nikolai Gubenko shot six full -length playing films according to his own scenarios, including “Woundes” (1976), “From the Life of vacationers” (1980), “Life, Tears, and Love” (1983).