Sergei Puskepalis

• Name — Sergei Puskepalis Сергей Пускепалис • Birth Name — Sergei Vytautovich Puskepalis • Born — 15 April 1966 • Birthplace — Kursk, RSFSR, USSR • Died — 20 September 2022 • Place of death — Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia • Citizenship — Russian • Occupation — Theatre director Film actor • Years Active — 2003–2022 • Awards — Nika Award (2008) Silver Bear (2010) • Website — https: premiya-postupok.ru/

Sergei Puskepalis was born in 1966 to a Lithuanian father and a Bulgarian mother from Transnistria, in Kursk, then Soviet Union. Sergei studied in Saratov, the Saratov Drama School, then went on active duty in the Soviet Navy, worked as an actor in the Saratov Youth Theatre, studied at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, he graduated in 2001. After graduating from the Moscow GITIS, he staged the play "Twenty-Seven" Alexey Slapovsky and this performance was one of the festival Baltic House. Afterwards, he put on the play by Alexey Slapovsky "From red to green rat star" in Omsk "Fifth theater". Sergei Puskepalis repeatedly staged performances of Slapovsky's plays. He worked as a director in the Samara theater "Monday". From May 2003 to 2007 Sergei Puskepalis - chief director of the Magnitogorsk Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin. 2007 - production director of the Moscow theater studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. From June 2009 to February 2010 - chief director of the Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after Fyodor Volkov in city of Yaroslavl. Puskepalis was invited to many famous Russian drama theaters to stage theater productions.

In 2003 Puskepalis started to act in movies. His first role was a cameo in the film The Stroll. Sergei Puskepalis met the film director Alexei Popogrebski on the set of the film Roads to Koktebel, in which his son, actor Gleb Puskepalis, played. Later Popogrebski invited Sergei Puskepalis to star roles in the films Simple Things and How I Ended This Summer. In 2015, the film Clinch which Sergei Puskepalis made as a film director had its premiere at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The picture is an adaptation of the play by Alexey Slapovsky which Sergei Puskepalis staged in Ufa. Puskepalis was an active supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Sergei Puskepalis married Elena in 1991. Their son Gleb Puskepalis was born in 1992. Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in Yaroslavl Oblast in a car accident. He was driving an armored minibus to Donetsk, with the intention of giving it to the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2003 — The Stroll — participant in the accident • 2006 — Simple Things — Sergei Maslov, anesthetist • 2009 — Spring is Coming — Pavel Nikolaevich • 2010 — Apothecary — Mikhail Streltsov — TV series • 2010 — How I Ended This Summer — Sergei Gulybin, head of the polar station • 2011 — Siberia, Monamour — lieutenant colonel • 2011 — My Boyfriend, Angel — father Sasha, volcanologist • 2011 — Witness Protection — Andrei Meshechko, Major — TV series • 2011 — There Was Never a Better Brother — Jalil • 2012 — Life and Fate — Ivan Grekov, Captain — TV series • 2012 — Divorce — Mikhail, Colonel police department — TV series • 2013 — Metro — Andrei Garin, surgeon • 2013 — Owl Creek — Ivan Mitin, the captain of the State Security — TV series • 2013 — Eight — commander of the OMON • 2014 — Black Sea — Zaytsev • 2014 — Godfather — Ilya Alekhine, obstetrician-gynecologist — TV series • 2015 — Battle for Sevastopol — commander • 2015 — Happiness is... — Oleg • 2016 — The Icebreaker — Valentin Sevchenko • 2016 — Sophia — Casimir IV Jagiellon — TV series • 2017 — Yolki 6 — Viktor Orlov • 2017 — Thawed Carp — Anisimov • 2017 — The Road to Calvary — General Romanovsky — TV series • 2021 — Maria. Save Moscow — Commissioner • 2022 — First Oscar — Alexander Vladimirovich Gromov • 2022 — Land of Legends — Polyud • 2022 — 1941. Wings Over Berlin — Semyon Zhavoronkov • 2023 — Doctor — Khristoforov aleks liutyj"]

Sergei Puskepalis is recorded with the occupation film screenwriter. Recorded with the occupation theatre director. Recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as actor, theatre director, stage actor and film actor. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Sergei Vytautovich Puskepalis. His recorded language was Russian. One child is recorded: Gleb Puskepalis.