Nikolay Dupak

The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is acting and directing. Employment is recorded with Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and Order of Friendship of Peoples.

• Name — Nikolay Dupak • Native Name — Николай Дупак • Birth Name — Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak • Born — 5 October 1921 • Birthplace — Starobesheve, Ukrainian SSR, RSFSR • Died — 26 March 2023 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1941–2023 • Spouse — Raisa Dupak

Born on 5 October 1921 in USSR in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk Oblast to a large family. Dupak was a fellow villager of Pasha Angelina. In the spring of 1941, Dupak, now a young student of the Rostov Theater School, was approved for the role of Andrei in the film Taras Bulba directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, however, this picture was not filmed. But when they began to shoot the picture, the war began. Nikolai joined the people's militia. Then he served in the cavalry, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times. Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acting in a number of films while there. Then he moved to Taganka Theatre. It was he who invited Yuri Lyubimov and Vladimir Vysotsky to the theater. He persuaded the artist David Borovsky, who worked in Kiev, to move to Moscow. Dupak's creative career lasted 80 years. Dupak died on 26 March 2023, at the age of 101.

• Dark Is the Night (1945) as Lieutenant Sannikov • In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1945) as adjutant • The Forty-First (1956) as Chupilko • Torrents of Steel (1967) as Volosatov • Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) as army commander • Intervention (1968) as Corporal Barbaru • Bumbarash (1968) as Sovkov • Eternal Call (1973) as Regional Committee Secretary Filimonov • Captain Nemo (1975) as Colonel Bunro • The Arrows of Robin Hood (1975) as miller, Maria's father • Untypical Story (1977) as miller, Maria's father • Life Is Beautiful (1979) as police commissioner • The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983) as Abbot Aymer • Love with Privileges (1989) as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR