Leonid Bykov

Leonid Bykov was born on 12 December 1928 in Znamenske, in the Donbas, the son of a worker at the Kramatorsk steelworks. Dismissed from an aviation school for his small stature, he graduated in 1951 from the Kharkiv theatre institute, acted for nine years at the city theatre, then was an actor and director at Lenfilm before moving to the Dovzhenko studio. He died on 11 April 1979 in a car accident near Dymer; at his funeral, attended by thousands of people, there was singing as his will had requested.

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• CinemaOnly Old Men Are Going to BattleВ бій ідуть самі старикиLeonid Bykov · 1974Cinema