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- Birth nameNikolai Lukyanovitch Dupak
- Nikolai Dupak was born on October 5, 1921 in village Starobeshevo, Mariupol uyezd, Donetsk Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Starobesheve, Starobesheve Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Captain Nemo (1975), Captain Nemo (1976) and Yaroslav Mudry (1982). He died on March 26, 2023 in Moscow, Russia.
- In 1937, Nikolai Dupak entered the theatrical school of Rostov on the Don, under the guidance of the famous director, actor and teacher Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky, where he managed to finish only three courses before the war. At the same time he served in the Rostov Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.
- At the age of nine, he began to actively take part in school performances and productions.
- In the spring of 1941, the artist successfully passed the screen tests and became the only one from the whole school in in Rostov-on-Don who was invited to the main role in the new feature film Taras Bulba. The picture was not taken/made at that time due to the outbreak of World War II. .
- The actor went from student to commander of the reconnaissance platoon, and was wounded and shell-shocked three times( He lost hearing and speech).
- In 1939, Dupak married his colleague Alla Yuryevna Vannovskaya (1920-1966), daughter of the leading actor of the Rostov Drama Theater Yuri Alekseevich Vannovsky.
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