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- Irina Shevchuk was born on 6 October 1951 in Murmansk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Abiturientka (1974), Muzhchiny sedeyut rano (1974) and Povest o zhenshchine (1975). She has been married to Aleksandr Afanasyev since 1980. They have one child.
- Actor
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- Writer
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy was born on 8 March 1992 in Murmansk, Russia. He is an actor and director, known for Slasher Party (2019), 211 (2018) and Bad Agents (2018).- Vytautas Kaniusonis is a Eastern European actor from Lithuania. He has finished his acting studies the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Vytautas' international career begun with a mini-series "War &Peace" by Robert Dornhelm starring Clemence Poesy and Malcolm McDowel. Since then Vytautas has played in numerous local and international productions such as feature films "Aurora" in 2012 and "Vardas Tamsoje (A name in the Dark)" in 2013. He became a famous actor after a critically acclaimed film "The Gambler" directed by Ignas Jonynas, where Vytautas has played the lead role. The film won the Special Juree Award in Warsaw International Film Festival in 2013 and the Silver Crane awards for Best Actor, Best Score, Best Film, Best Art Direction and Best Director in Lithuanian Film Awards in 2014. His most recent work includes Norwegian TV series "Occupied" in 2017, feature films "Isaac" by director Jurgis Matulevicius in 2019, "The Wedding" directed by Vygantas Bachmackij and a Swedish production "Thin Ice" that premieres in 2020. He also stars in an upcoming film "Paralysis" by Andrius Blazevicius, where he plays the father of the lead girl.
Vytautas is fluent in Russian, Lithuanian and English, he also speaks German, Swedish and Polish. - Editor
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Arseny Syuhin was born in 1982 in the city of Murmansk, in northern Russia. He graduated from the Murmansk Music College. Six years he served in the frontier troops. After the service, he worked in television in Murmansk. Since 2009, he engaged in editing of trailers for movies, TV series and video games. From 2012, he makes short films in action and horror genres. In 2014, he directed a short action film "Stalingrad", after which he received a job offer in one of the largest Russian film companies and moved to Moscow. Now he is engaged in editing of films and television series.- Actor
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Semyon Serzin was born on 12 June 1987 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR [now Murmansk, Russia]. He is an actor and director, known for Man from Podolsk (2020), Petrov's Flu (2021) and Pokhozhiy chelovek (2022). He has been married to Taisiya Vilkova since 27 March 2020.- Actress
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Inna Leonidivna Bordyuh , known professionally as Zlata Ognevich, is a Ukrainian singer and former politician. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song "Gravity", placing third. Ognevich previously attempted to represent Ukraine at the contest in 2010 and 2011. In 2014, Ognevich was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the Radical Party using her birth name Inna Bordyuh. She resigned from parliament after one year, citing her opposition to the corruption she had witnessed. She has been vocal in her support for Ukrainian forces during the pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, and announced she would not accept Russian citizenship following the annexation of Crimea, where Ognevich was raised.- Vladimir Konstantinov is a Russian retired professional ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, he had played for Soviet club CSKA Moscow. Winner of the Stanley Cup 1997. World Champion 1986, 1989 and 1990. World Youth Championship 1986. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1989).
Konstantinov was drafted 221st overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings. Konstantinov was also part of the unit known as "The Russian Five", which consisted of him and fellow defenseman Viacheslav Fetisov, and forwards Igor Larionov, Sergei Fedorov and Vyacheslav Kozlov. Konstantinov earned the NHL Plus/Minus Award in 1995-96, with a plus/minus difference of +60. The +60 has been the highest rating a player has finished with in the past 20 seasons, since Wayne Gretzky finished with a +70 in the 1986-87 season. In 1996-97, Konstantinov helped his team to win the Stanley Cup against the Philadelphia Flyers. In that same year, Konstantinov was runner-up to Brian Leetch for the James Norris Memorial Trophy, given to the NHL's best defenseman. - Irina Cherichenko was born on 3 August 1963 in Polyarniy, Murmansk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. She is an actress, known for Verbovshchik (1991), Sluga (1989) and Uchitelya (2019).
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Alekisok is an American singer and songwriter. He started making music around the age of 14, and started to upload it at the age of 16. He has released many songs that can be found on platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc. He has released songs under genres such as pop and blues.- Writer
- Producer
Lilia Kim was born on 22 May 1979 in Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. She is a writer and producer, known for The Price of Victory, Popytka Very (2010) and Krem (2009).- Irina Sokolova was born on 24 December 1940 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Days of Eclipse (1988), Mournful Unconcern (1987) and The Castle (1994).
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Sergei Kuryokhin was a visionary Russian entertainer, actor, composer, pianist, conductor, producer and director of several ground-braking cross-genre and cross-cultural projects in the Soviet Union and Russia. He stated that only insecure people may restrict their development by limiting their minds to one set of ideas, be it a political party, a religion, an art form or a lifestyle.
He was born Sergei Anatolevich Kurekhin (Kuryokhin) on June 16, 1954, in the city of Murmansk, Northern USSR. His father, Anatoli Kuryokhin, was a military officer. Young Kuryokhin began his piano studies from the early age of 4. In 1971 Kuryokhin moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He studied piano and composition at the College of Music of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Conservatory. Then he studied show-business and choir conducting at the Music Department of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Academy of Culture. Kuryokhin played rock, pop, and jazz music with various school bands in Leningrad, such as "Post", "Kolokol" and "Golfstream" on piano and keyboards.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s he played piano with the jazz quartet of Anatoliy Vapirov at several jazz festivals. In 1981, after Vapirov's arrest and imprisonment, Vapirov and Kuryokhin secretly made a sound recording of the music Vapirov composed in prison, and then it was smuggled from the Soviet Union, and was released in England under the title "Sentenced to Silence" (1983). That album also became a showcase of remarkable interplay between the imprisoned Anatoliy Vapirov, on the saxophone and a free man, Sergei Kuryokhin on the piano. At that time Kuryokhin demonstrated highly unusual fluency on the piano and was noted by such musicians as Chick Corea and Gary Burton. In 1981 Kuryokhin joined the popular Leningrad underground band "Akvarium" and collaborated as keyboardist, composer and the bands co-leader along with Boris Grebenshchikov, releasing several albums together during the 1980s.
In 1984 Kuryokhin launched his best known project: " Orkestr Pop-Mekhanika" (Popular Mechanics Orchestra). The show was staged at major arenas and concert halls in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Novosibirsk among other cities in Russia and abroad. The ever-changing project included musicians, bands and actors from Leningrad and Moscow, as well as from Europe, such as Vanessa Redgrave, "Akvarium" and Boris Grebenshchikov, "Kino" and Viktor Tsoy, "Igry", "Auktsion", Dzhungli", "Tri-O", Sergei Bugayev, even a Red Army Ensemble and many others. During "perestroika" under Mikhail Gorbachev, Kuryokhin was harshly attacked by the Communist Party ideologist Ligachev who called the Popular Mechanics show an "ideological and artistic jumble!"
Kuryokhin's productions and group performances amalgamated music, theater, circus, ballet, cinema, erotic dances, live animals and birds, movable decorations, paintings and other visual arts in what could be described as Noah's Ark with Zappa and Warhol, all together in a Soviet-type underground happening show loaded with pranks and witty allusions. Kuryokhin called himself a "sound-manipulator" instead of a traditional music director, because he was improvising with moves of up to 460 people and animals on stage as if people were part of a giant live music notation. Some critics called his show a "total art" others called it a nonconformist parody of "proper" and "official" ceremonial shows. His ever-changing project was embracing performances by various musicians and actors, such as Vanessa Redgrave, Timur Novikov, Anatoliy Vapirov, Viktor Tarasov, Vladimir Chekasin Nikolai Gusev, Alexander Lyapin, Kino, Alisa, Valentina Ponomaryova, Vladimir Volkov, Kenny Millions, and many others. His notable live and studio recordings include over 30 albums such as "Introduction in Pop Mekhanika" (1987), "Popular Zoological Elements" (1987), "Popular Science" (1989), four albums with "Akvarium", "Spectre of Communism" (1992), "Iblivy Opossum" and his last studio recordings with Vladimir Volkov and saxophonist Keshavan Maslak (1996).
Kuryokhin wrote music scores for several Russian and international films. He also enjoyed a film acting career. His music career was highlighted by his solo keyboard performances at the Bach International Music Festival in England and his concert tours in the USA, France, West Germany, Scandinavia, and Japan. He took part in the international project "Wrap around the World", which was produced by Nam June Paik at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. From 1991 to his untimely death in 1996 Kuryokhin was a member of the Committee for Culture and Tourism of St. Petersburg City. During that time Kuryokhin became one of the driving forces behind the successful effort in making St. Petersburg the cultural capital of Russia. His live performances attracted diverse public with a broader range of tastes and interests. Kuryokhin invented an impressive show-stopping move for the culmination of his live performances; after a virtuoso passage across the piano keyboard his hands would fly beyond the limits of the piano, then his whole body followed the flight and he would fall on the stage in front of the audience as if he was dead.
Sergei Kuryokhin was the author of many creative initiatives in Russian music, film, television, and show-business. Kuryokhin also made news after a popular TV-show where he presented a media-virus that the founder of the Soviet Communist Party Vladimir Lenin was actually not a human, but a mushroom. He launched a series of cross-genre and cross-cultural concerts during the 1980's- 1990's in St. Petersburg. His innovative approach influenced many actors, directors, and musicians. His influence can be found in contemporary music and film. His ideas live at the annual Sergei Kurekhin International Festival (Skif), which is organized by the Sergei Kurekhin Charity Fund in St. Petersburg, Russia, since 1996. The Skif attracts over 100 international actors, musicians, and cross-genre performers and has been attended by tens of thousands annually.
In the mid-1990s Sergei Kuryokhin suffered from an emotion breakdown and depression, after he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, cardiac sarcoma, which was incurable at that time and eventually caused a sudden heart arrest. At that time he was showing signs of a personality disorder, he became obsessed with ideas of chaos, totalitarianism and various mystical schools. Then he split-up with many old friends. His talent was drifting in a darker direction. Kuryokhin's imitation of his own death during his live performances was a premonition of his own death. He died at age 42, on July 9, 1996, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His burial service ceremony in St. Petersburg began at the "Spaso-Konyushennaya" Church, the same Church, where the burial service was held for great poet Alexander Pushkin. Sergei Kuryokhin was laid to rest in the Komarovo Cemetery near the tomb of Anna Akhmatova and other Russian culture luminaries.
"Madness is the important quality of Russian culture" said Sergei Kuryokhin.- Vladimir Borisov was born on 18 June 1948 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Chest' samuraya (2012), Volchiy ostrov (2013) and Fandorin. Azazel (2023).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Inna Volkova was born on 20 July 1964 in Murmansk, Murmanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Zheleznaya pyata oligarkhii (1998) and Petrov's Flu (2021). She is married to Aleksandr Bashirov. They have one child.- Aleksandra Skachkova was born on 21 March 1973 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR. She is an actress, known for Doch tmy (2021), Slushatel (2004) and V dvizhenii (2002).
- Pavel Novikov was born on 12 August 1971 in Murmansk, Murmanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Russian Ark (2002), Nostalgiya po budushemu (2008) and Krot (2001).
- Andrey Mokeyev was born on 29 September 1961 in Murmansk, Russia, USSR. He is an actor, known for Cargo 200 (2007), Hard to Be a God (2013) and Streets of Broken Lights (1998).
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Jerry Bergen was born on 4 January 1899 in Livana, Murmansk, Russia. He was an actor, known for 20, 000 Cheers for the Chain Gang (1933), The Pirate (1948) and Flying with Music (1942). He died in January 1986 in Yonkers, New York, USA.- Cinematographer
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Nick Emtsov was born on 22 April 1989 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Happy (2014), Moth (2015) and In the Future (2017).- Music Department
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Anastasia Devana was born in Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, Russia. Anastasia is known for Agent Carter (2015), Supernatural (2005) and Mischief Night (2013).- Actor
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Aleksey Goman was born on 12 September 1983 in Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Sotsseti (2023), Neadekvatnye lyudi 2 (2020) and Odnoklassniki. Byvshikh ne byvaet.- Director
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Born in Murmansk, Alexander Popov grew up in Moscow acting in theater at a young age. He later switched his focus to film directing and photography. He moved to the United States of America to pursue filmmaking education, where he studied under the mentorship of the acclaimed Iranian director Alireza Khatami. Years later, he returned to Russia, but the country's political regime forced him to move abroad once again. Alexander permanently resides in France where he also practices teaching and writing.
Alexander Popov is known for films Tragedy in Ten Scenes (2018), Bovine (2019), and Tenant (2020) which premiered at various international film festivals in New York, Chicago, Nashville, Stockholm, Prague, and Moscow.- Actor
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Pavel Fominenko was born on 22 December 1975 in Polyarniy, Murmansk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and writer, known for Samiy-samiy-samiy-plokhoy (2010), Freezer (2009) and Poligon 2 (2004).- Director
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Independent filmmaker Dmitriy Gridin spent most of his life with camera in his hands, he started filming Super-8 shorts when he was just 10 years. He works as a director in various Theaters, film and television productions in Russia and collaborated with other independent cinema enthusiasts through the world, including Sergey Twob and 'Anna Dji' - co-founders of Irpen Film Festival.- Sergei Rozhkov was born on 1 April 1972 in Murmansk, Russia.