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'''Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik''' ({{lang-ru|Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник}}; January 15, 1923, [[Petrograd]] – April 10, 2009, [[Moscow]]) was a [[Russia]]n and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] stage and a film actor. The son of [[Yakov Vesnik]],<ref name="sovsek">{{cite web|url=http://www.sovsekretno.ru/magazines/article/741|title=Евгений Весник: "…Люблю пьяниц"|quote=Правильно ударение в моей фамилии делать на втором слоге – Весник!|publisher=Совершенно секретно|accessdate=2013-01-16|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DoQKngMN|archivedate=2013-01-20}}</ref> the first director of the [[Kryvorizhstal]] plant, he fought the Germans in the [[Second World War]]. He worked at the [[Maly Theatre (Moscow)|Maly Theatre]] from 1963 and was named a [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.<ref name="sovsek"/>
'''Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik''' ({{lang-ru|Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник}}; January 15, 1923 in [[Petrograd]] – April 10, 2009 in [[Moscow]]) was a [[Russia]]n and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] stage and a film actor. The son of [[Yakov Vesnik]],<ref name="sovsek">{{cite web|url=http://www.sovsekretno.ru/magazines/article/741|title=Евгений Весник: "…Люблю пьяниц"|quote=Правильно ударение в моей фамилии делать на втором слоге – Весник!|publisher=Совершенно секретно|accessdate=2013-01-16|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DoQKngMN|archivedate=2013-01-20}}</ref> the first director of the [[Kryvorizhstal]] plant, he fought the Germans in the [[Second World War]]. He worked at the [[Maly Theatre (Moscow)|Maly Theatre]] from 1963 and was named a [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.<ref name="sovsek"/>


Primarily a [[comedian]], Vesnik is remembered as the first Soviet actor to play the character of [[Ostap Bender]]. After he was remembered as ''Teatcher Taratar, or Tarator'' in ''[[The Adventures of the Elektronic]]'' (1979), one of greatest Soviet films for children'.<ref name="sovsek"/>
Primarily a [[comedian]], Vesnik is remembered as the first Soviet actor to play the character of [[Ostap Bender]]. After he was remembered as ''Teatcher Taratar, or Tarator'' in ''[[The Adventures of the Elektronic]]'' (1979), one of greatest Soviet films for children'.<ref name="sovsek"/>

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File:Евгений Весник.jpg
Yevgeny Vesnik at the front, 1940s

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; January 15, 1923 in Petrograd – April 10, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet stage and a film actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik,[1] the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in the Second World War. He worked at the Maly Theatre from 1963 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.[1]

Primarily a comedian, Vesnik is remembered as the first Soviet actor to play the character of Ostap Bender. After he was remembered as Teatcher Taratar, or Tarator in The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979), one of greatest Soviet films for children'.[1]

Among his other roles are the policeman (miliceman) in Old Khottabych, "Boss of Sport Complex" in Seven Old Men and One Girl, the Procurator in Bat, the commissioner in Charodey (1982), "radist" in Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach and many other films.

He died, aged 86, on April 10, 2009 in Moscow after suffering a stroke.[2]

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ a b c "Евгений Весник: "…Люблю пьяниц"". Совершенно секретно. Archived from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2013-01-16. Правильно ударение в моей фамилии делать на втором слоге – Весник!
  2. ^ В Москве скончался актёр Евгений Весник

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