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Leonid Gaidai

Died in 1993

Leonid Gaidai (1923-1993), born on 30 January 1923 in Svobodny, in the Amur region, was mobilised in February 1942 and seriously wounded by a mine in March 1943. After the war, he completed the studio of the Irkutsk drama theatre in 1947, then entered the Moscow film institute as a pupil of Grigori Alexandrov. An assistant to Boris Barnet, he directed his first film in 1956 and became the author of highly successful comedies. He died in Moscow on 19 November 1993.

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