Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikolai Plotnikov studied at Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Mayakovsky Theatre, Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army and Vakhtangov Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Nikolai Plotnikov • Birth Name — Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov • Born — 5 November 1897 • Birthplace — Vyazma, Vyazemsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 3 February 1979 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1920–1979

He was born in Vyazma into a family of a hairdresser. As a child, after he lost a majority of his family (mother from tuberculosis, father from myocardial rupture, and both sisters), he was sent to Saint Petersburg to have his uncle look after him. There, he studied in art school of Alexander von Stieglitz (now Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design). In spring of 1916, he was drafted into the Western Front during World War I. After he returned, he began studying acting in Moscow Art Theatre under supervision of Michael Chekhov. From 1945 to 1956, he was the director of Film Actor Theater-Study (now National Film Actors' Theatre). He joined the Communist Party in 1954. He died in Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

• Dawn of Paris (1936) as General Dombrovsky • The Lonely White Sail (1937) as bearded informant • The Oppenheim Family (1938) as Edgar Oppenheim • Lenin in 1918 (1939) as kulak from Tamborsk • Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (1939) as Zhikharev • Gorky 3: My Universities (1940) as Nikiforych • The Wedding (1944) as the best man • The Vow (1946) as Ivan Yermilov • The White Fang (1946) as Handsome Smith • Ivan Pavlov (1949) as Nikodim Vasilyevich • The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Commissioner Gurov • The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Walther von Brauchitsch • Least We Forget (1954) as Vsevolod Yarchuk • Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Professor Konstantin Ivanovich Sintsov • Your Contemporary (1967) as Professor Maksim Petrovich Nitochkin • The Seagull (1972) as Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin