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In the past year, many people have disappeared whose names will remain in Russian and world history. Among them are famous actors, musicians and statesmen.

FEBRUARY

Feltsman Oskar Borisovich

Oscar Feltsman. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Oscar Feltsman was born in Odessa. Already at the age of five, he began to study the violin, a little later on the piano. Oskar Feltsman's first piano piece entitled "Autumn" appeared when he was barely six years old. Among his works were operettas and musical comedies.

Feltsman collaborated with various poets, including Andrei Voznesensky, Rasul Gamzatov, Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Robert Rozhdestvensky and many others. Feltsman's shitties were performed by the masters of the national stage: Leonid Utesov, Mark Bernes, Muslim Magomayev, Maria Pakhomenko, Iosif Kobzon. In recent years, the composer has created a number of chamber works, including those based on poems by Marina Tsvetaeva.

Oscar Feltsman was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the second, third and fourth degrees for his outstanding contribution to the development of Russian musical art and many years of creative activity, as well as the Order of Friendship for his great personal contribution to the development of Russian art. In 1989, Feltsman received the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Vyakhirev Rem Ivanovich

Rem Vyakhirev. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Soviet and Russian manager, statesman, one of the founders of the Gazprom company.

Rem Vyakhirev was born in the village of Bolshaya Chernigovka in the Kuibyshev region and was the eldest child in a family of rural teachers. After graduating from school, he entered the oil faculty of the Kuibyshev Industrial Institute, which he graduated in 1956 with a degree in oil and gas field development. For fifteen years he worked in the Kuibyshevneft association. In 1971 he was appointed head of the Orenburggazdobycha department.

In 1973, Vyakhirev met Viktor Chernomyrdin, and in 1976 became the head of Orenburggazdobycha. From 1983 to 1985, Vyakhirev held the post of Deputy Minister of the USSR Gas Industry, at the same time, on the initiative of Chernomyrdin, the Gazprom company was created.

Since 1992 Rem Vyakhirev has served as the head of the board of the concern. Under him, the company enters the European gas market.

In 2004, Forbes magazine included Vyakhirev in the list of the richest people in Russia.

He died on February 11, 2013 at the 79th year of his life at his dacha in the suburbs. Buried at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

German Alexey Yurievich

Alexey German. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Film director, classic of Russian black and white cinema.

Alexey German Sr. entered the history of cinema as a director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He was born into the family of a writer and screenwriter, author of the script for the film "My Dear Man" by Yuri German and Tatiana Rittenberg. Alexey German's career began in the theater. After graduating from the Leningrad State Theater Institute, he served first at the Smolensk Drama Theater, and then at the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater.

In 1964, Herman came to Lenfilm, where his first job was the film Workers' Village, in which he was the second director.

The film "Checking on the Roads" became the directorial debut of Alexei German. Work on the tape was completed in 1971, but it was only released on screens in 1985. "Check on the roads" was followed by "Twenty days without war" (1976) and "My friend Ivan Lapshin" (1984). The last tape completed by Herman - "Khrustalev, car!" - was released in 1998.

For many years, Aleksey German has worked on a film based on the Strugatsky brothers' novel "It's Difficult to Be God", but this tape never appeared on screens during his lifetime.

Alexey German has been a laureate of numerous awards and prizes. In particular, his work "My friend Ivan Lapshin" received the State Prize of the RSFSR in 1987, and a year later "Checking on the Roads" was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.

The director died on February 21, 2013 at the age of 75 in the clinic of the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg. Buried on February 24 at the Theological cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Van Cliburn

The world famous American pianist, the first winner of the P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Van Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He began to study the piano at the age of 3, and at 13 he gave his first recital.

The pianist became world famous after winning the first International P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow in 1958, which became a sensation - at that moment the Cold War was in full swing. His performance was followed by an eight-minute standing ovation. According to legend, Nikita Khrushchev personally made the decision to award Cliburn the "gold". At that time, the pianist was only 23 years old.

The competition was a watershed moment in Van Cliburn's biography. After his triumph in Moscow, he gained worldwide fame, and at home - in New York - he was greeted as a national hero. The time of incessant performances began. Sometimes a musician had to play 150 concerts a year. But in 1978, Van Cliburn stopped touring to spend more time with his sick mother. He resumed his performances only in 1987 - after playing at a reception at the White House in Washington on the occasion of the visit of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev.

Throughout his musical career, Van Cliburn performed in front of US presidents, representatives of royal families and leaders of countries in Europe, Asia and South America, and visited the USSR on tour.

The pianist has received many awards, including the Russian Order of Friendship. The Russian Academy of Sciences named one of the stars in the constellation Lear after Van Cliburn, and his name is also immortalized in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. The 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, performed by the maestro, was inducted into the US National Academy Hall of Fame.

The pianist has repeatedly returned to Moscow, and within the framework of the First International Festival of Master Classes "Glory to the Maestro!" even gave a series of master classes.

MARCH

Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chavez. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Venezuelan statesman and military leader, President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013

Hugo Chavez was born in the city of Sabaneta in western Venezuela.

In 1975, with the rank of junior lieutenant, he graduated from the Military Academy of Venezuela, then served in the airborne units. In February 1992, Chavez spearheaded a failed coup attempt. In 1994 he created the "V Republic Movement". In 1998 he took over as president of the republic, two years later he won the presidential elections for the second time. In 2002, Chavez withstood an attempted ouster from the presidency. In December 2006 he won the next presidential election.

Hugo Chavez was called the leader of the Bolivarian revolution. He is one of the founders of the political and economic bloc Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America / ALBA /, the author of regional projects in the field of production and sale of hydrocarbons, in particular Petrocaribe, Petrosur, as well as in the media - Telesur TV channel.

Chavez managed to change the country's foreign policy, making Venezuela in a short time the authoritative regional leader, leading the movement against neoliberalism in the Western Hemisphere.

Chavez is buried in the Museum of the Revolution in Caracas. The coffin with his body is placed in a marble sarcophagus and set on a flower-shaped pedestal surrounded by water.

Panin Andrey Vladimirovich

Theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Andrey Panin was born in Novosibirsk. Two years later, the family moved to Chelyabinsk. Then, when Andrei was six years old, he moved to Kemerovo, where he lived for sixteen years. It was the city of Kemerovo that Panin considered his homeland. The actor graduated from the local Institute of Culture, and then moved to Moscow. In 1990, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and became an actor in the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. Among his stage works are roles in the performances "Three Sisters", "The Covetous Knight", "Marriage", "Death Number" and others.

The actor gained fame thanks to the films "Mama, Do Not Cry" by Maxim Pezhemsky and "Mama" by Denis Evstigneev. Mass popularity came to Andrei Panin after the television series "Brigade" directed by Alexei Sidorov. Panin's popularity was also promoted by the success of the television series "Kamenskaya". In addition, Andrei Panin created vivid, memorable characters in the films "Driver for Faith", "Full Moon Day", "Poisons, or the World History of Poisoning" and "The Horseman named Death", "Zhmurki", "Morphine" and many others.

The circumstances of the actor's death are not clear. According to one version, he died in an accident, according to another - he was killed. They buried Andrei Panin at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Mamyshev-Monroe Vladislav Yurievich

Russian performance artist Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe died

Renowned performance artist, creator of Pirate Television, winner of the Kandinsky Prize.

The artist was born in Leningrad. He studied at the literary school number 27, from which he was expelled for drawing and distributing cartoons of members of the Politburo.

In 1986 he began working with the New Artists group, created by Timur Novikov. Mamyshev is known for his performances, where he disguised himself as famous people - the first heroine of his reincarnations was Marilyn Monroe. In this image, Mamyshev performed several times at concerts of the Pop Mechanics group by Sergei Kuryokhin. Since that time, the artist has been assigned the pseudonym Vlad Monroe or Mamyshev-Monroe.

In 2000, the artist found a new image for himself - the Soviet movie star Lyubov Orlova. In 2003 Mamyshev took part in the scandalous exhibition "Beware, Religion!" In 2007, the artist won the Kandinsky Prize in the Media Project of the Year nomination for the original version of the feature film Volga-Volga, where Monroe played the role of Dunya Petrova.

The last exhibition of Mamyshev-Monroe "Polonius", prepared jointly with the photographer Grigory Polyakovsky, was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. It was dedicated to the premiere of the play of the same name at the Polytheater, where the artist played the role of Polonius.

On March 16, Mamyshev-Monroe drowned in a hotel pool on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Buried in St. Petersburg.

Berezovsky Boris Abramovich

Died Boris Berezovsky

Boris Berezovsky is one of the key figures in Russian politics in the 1990s, an entrepreneur and scientist.

In 1989, Berezovsky became one of the founders of the LogoVAZ joint-stock company. From December 1994 to December 7, 1996, he was the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of Public Russian Television AOZT.

In May 1994, Berezovsky created the All-Russian Automobile Alliance (ABBA), within the framework of which he headed the project to create a domestic "people's car".

In 1996-1997, Berezovsky served as secretary of the Russian Security Council, then became an adviser to the head of the Russian presidential administration, Yumashev, and in April 1998 was appointed executive secretary of the CIS.

Since 2000, the businessman has lived in Great Britain, since 2003 - as a political refugee. Since 2001, he has been wanted on charges of fraud, money laundering and an attempted violent seizure of power.

On the morning of March 23, 2013, Berezovsky was found dead at his home in Suri County. According to police, the death of the businessman was caused by hanging. Berezovsky was buried on May 8 in Surrey

Zolotukhin Valery Sergeevich

Died actor and director Valery Zolotukhin

Actor and director.

Valery Zolotukhin was born in Altai into a peasant family. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming an actor and in 1958 he entered the musical comedy department of GITIS. After graduating from the institute in 1963, he received an invitation to the Mossovet Theater, where he worked for a year.

In 1964, the artist moved to the Taganka Theater, where he worked until his last days.

In addition to playing in the theater, Zolotukhin actively acted in films, the role of Bumbarash in the film of the same name brought him nationwide fame. His track record includes roles in the "Master of the Taiga" trilogy, the detective "The Lost of a Witness", the historical film "The Tale of How Tsar Peter Got Married", the paintings "Night Watch" and "Day Watch", "The Master and Margarita", " Dead Souls "and many others.

After leaving the Taganka Theater of the artistic director, Yuri Lyubimov, Zolotukhin took his place. In early March 2013, he was forced to resign from this position due to poor health. Since 2003, Zolotukhin has also been the artistic director of the Altai State Youth Theater.

He was buried in his homeland - in the village of Bystry Istok in Altai.

APRIL

Margaret Thatcher

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. Thatcher became the first and so far the only woman to hold this post.

Thatcher was able to pull the UK out of the economic crisis of the late 1970s using harsh and unpopular measures, including the privatization of state-owned companies and the refusal to support unpromising enterprises. She also initiated a military solution to the conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, which ended with a British victory.

For her services to the nation, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the title of Baroness on Thatcher in 1992.

In the last years of her life, Margaret Thatcher was seriously ill, the cause of her death was a stroke. According to the will of the deceased, she was buried next to her husband in the cemetery of the military hospital in the London district of Chelsea.

Livshits Alexander Yakovlevich

Alexander Livshits. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Russian economist, finance minister, vice-premier of the government of the Russian Federation in 1996-1997, vice-president of the Russian Aluminum holding in 2001-2013.

Livshits worked in the Russian government in the 1990s. He became Minister of Finance and Deputy Governor for Russia at the IMF in 1996, having also received the post of Deputy Prime Minister.

In 1997, Livshits resigned from the government, becoming the president's representative to the National Banking Council, as well as the deputy head of the presidential administration, where he worked until 1998. In 1999, the economist was Russia's special representative to the G8.

A year later, Livshits resigned from officials, heading the board of the bank "Russian Credit". A year later, he changed his job again, moving to Rusal. It was in the aluminum company that Livshits worked for the last years. The former minister practically did not participate in the political life of the country.

MAY

Balabanov Alexey Oktyabrinovich

Alexey Balabanov. Photo: ITAR-TASS

In 1981, Balabanov graduated from the translation department of the Gorky Pedagogical Institute, in 1983-1987 he worked as an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors.

Among his works are the films "War", "It Doesn't Hurt Me", "About Freaks and People", "Cargo 200", "Zhmurki", "Morphine" and others.

The director's last film, I Want Too, was released on Russian screens in mid-December 2012. It tells about a mystical bell tower, to which people go in the hope of finding happiness. The director played himself in one of the episodes of the film, during which he dies.

Aleksey Balabanov died suddenly while working on another script in the Dyuny sanatorium in the city of Sestroretsk. Buried at the Smolenskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Schmidt Sigurd Ottovich

Sigurd Schmidt. Photo: ITAR-TASS

A well-known Russian historian and ethnographer.

The scientist taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities, headed the Department of Moscow Studies and was an honorary professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

In 1944, Sigurd Schmidt graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University, and in 1949 began teaching at the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, on the basis of which the Russian State University for the Humanities was created. In 1965, Schmidt received his doctorate in history, and five years later became a professor. In 1992 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Schmidt - the author of more than 20 books, a large number of articles - was known in the country as a prominent popularizer of history.

JULY

Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich

Russian programmer, co-founder of Yandex.

Ilya Segalovich was born in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in the family of a geophysicist, USSR State Prize laureate Valentin Segalovich.

In 1986 he graduated from the Geophysical Faculty of the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. After graduation, Segalovich worked as a programmer at the All-Union Institute of Mineral Resources, where he wrote geophysical information systems on Fortran. In the early 1990s, together with his classmate Arkady Volozh, Segalovich coined the word Yandex to denote the technology for searching for unstructured information that they were developing. Subsequently, Segalovich stood at the origins of the creation of the most popular search engine in Runet, and in recent years held the post of technical director of Yandex.

In September 2012, Segalovich was diagnosed with cancer. On July 27, 2013, he died in a London clinic. Buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow

Todorovsky Petr Efimovich

Peter Todorovsky. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Petr Todorovsky was born in the city of Bobrinets in Ukraine. Since the summer of 1943, he was a cadet at the Saratov Military Infantry School, since 1944 - the commander of a mortar platoon in the 93rd Infantry Regiment of the 76th Infantry Division of the 47th Army of the First Belorussian Front. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees and medals. After the war, until 1949, he served as an officer in the military garrison near Kostroma.

In 1954, Todorovsky graduated from the camera department of VGIK and made his debut as a cameraman at the Moldova Film studio. For ten years he worked at the Odessa Film Studio.

As an actor, he starred in the films "It was the month of May", "Bog".

In 1983, he directed the acclaimed film A Wartime Affair, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The director has written music for most of his films.

Pyotr Todorovsky died on May 24, 2013 in Moscow at the age of 88. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

JULY

Gorshenev Mikhail Yurievich

The best performances of the "King and the Jester" group

Musician, lead singer of the "King and the Jester"

Mikhail "Gorshok" Gorshenev was born in the city of Boksitogorsk, Leningrad Region. He began to study music at school. In 1988, together with his classmates Alexander Balunov and Alexander Shchigolev, he founded the "Office" group. In 1990, Andrey Knyazev joined them. In the same year they named their group "The King of Fools", which later received its current name. The musicians released their first studio album, "A Rock on the Head", in 1996. In total, the group recorded 12 studio albums, in 2005 Mikhail Gorshenev released a solo album "I am an alcoholic anarchist".

Buried at the Bogoslovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

AUGUST

Vasily Peskov

Well-known journalist, traveler, writer, one of the hosts of the "In the world of animals" program.

In his youth, Vasily Peskov was fond of photography. One day an employee of the regional newspaper Molodoy Kommunar saw his pictures and invited him to work. This was the impetus for the beginning of journalistic activities.

Three years later, Vasily Mikhailovich was invited to work for the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, where for many years he had been leading the columns "Window to Nature" and "Taiga Dead End". Many of his essays formed the basis of books. So, in 1960, "Notes of a Photo Reporter" was published, and three years later, Peskov's books "Steps in the Dew" and "Wait for Us, Stars" became famous.

The most popular was Peskov's documentary story "Taiga Dead End", published in 1990. It tells the story of Old Believer hermits who fled to the Sayan taiga in the Republic of Khakassia in the 1930s. In the book, Vasily Peskov tells how he established contact with the settlers and won their trust.

In 1991, another collection of essays by Peskov, "Wanderings", was published, where the journalist talks about East Africa, Hungary and the Alps. In 1994, his last book, Alaska More Than You Think, was published.

Despite the rich literary heritage, many remember Vasily Peskov from the program "In the world of animals", which he hosted from 1975 to 1990.

The journalist died in Moscow at the age of 84. According to Peskov's will, his ashes were scattered in his homeland, in the village of Orlovo, Voronezh region.

Soviet and Russian cameraman who has won worldwide fame for his collaboration with directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Bondarchuk

Vadim Yusov was born in the Leningrad Region. In 1954 he graduated from the camera department of VGIK and at the same time began to cooperate with the Mosfilm film studio. In 1960, he first worked with Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the short film Skating Rink and Violin. Since 1983 - Head of the Department of Cinematography at VGIK.

The filmography of Vadim Yusov includes more than 20 films. Among them are Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Ivan's Childhood by Andrei Tarkovsky; "I Walk Through Moscow" by Georgy Danelia; "They fought for the Motherland", "Boris Godunov" by Sergei Bondarchuk and others.

In recent years, Vadim Yusov collaborated with Oleg Dorman in the tapes "Interlinear" and "Svoy Voice", as well as with Andrey Proshkin in the tape "Orange Juice".

Vadim Yusov is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery

NOVEMBER

Yakovlev Yuri Vasilievich

Died actor Yuri Yakovlev

Actor, People's Artist of the USSR.

Yuri Yakovlev was born in Moscow into the family of a lawyer. In the post-war years, he studied at an evening school, at the same time working as an assistant mechanic. In 1948 he tried to enter VGIK, but the commission recognized him as not "cinematic". Then Yakovlev went to the Theater School. B. Shchukin.

In 1952, the actor came to the Vakhtangov Theater, where he worked for over 60 years. Among his roles are Sorin in A. Chekhov's The Seagull, Dudukin in Guilty Without Guilt by A. Ostrovsky, Karenin in Anna Karenina by L. Tolstoy, Pantalone in Princess Turandot and many others. In total, Yuri Yakovlev played more than 40 roles on the stage of the theater.

In 1955, Yuri Yakovlev made his debut on the big screen as Prince Myshkin in the film "The Idiot" based on the novel of the same name by F.M. Dostoevsky.

Among the most famous film works of the actor are the house manager Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha / Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the film by Leonid Gaidai "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession", Ippolit in the main New Year's tape "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath", Lieutenant Rzhevsky in "The Hussar Ballad", boy Bi in the comedic dystopia "Kin-Dza-Dza".

The actor died on the night of November 30, 2013 in a Moscow hospital after a long illness. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

DECEMBER

Nelson Mandela

Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies at death

The first black president of South Africa, one of the most famous human rights activists during the period of apartheid. 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Nelson Mandela was born in southeastern South Africa. In 1943 he began studying law at the university.

During his student years, Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, which was involved in the fight against apartheid. In 1953, the South African government banned him from speaking at public events. In 1956, he was accused of high treason, but then acquitted.

By 1960, when the authorities banned the ANC, Mandela had already become the recognized leader of the organization. In 1961, he headed the ANC military organization, and three years later he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released in 1990.

In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the first national elections in South Africa with the participation of the African majority in 1994, Mandela was elected President of South Africa. He remained at the head of state until 1999.

Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 96 in his home. He was buried on December 15, 2013 in his ancestral village.

Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich

Died designer of small arms Mikhail Kalashnikov

The famous designer of small arms

Mikhail Kalashnikov was born in the Altai Territory into a large peasant family. In 1930, the family was dispossessed and exiled to the village of Nizhnyaya Mokhovaya, Tomsk region.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. During his military service, he developed an inertial counter for recording the number of shots from a tank cannon, adapted a TT pistol for effective firing through slots in a tank turret, and created a device for recording the service life of a tank engine. For the latest invention, the commander of the Kiev military district, General Georgy Zhukov, awarded Kalashnikov with a personalized watch.

In August 1941, Kalashnikov went to the front, but a few months later he was seriously wounded in the battles near Bryansk. While on a six-month vacation, he developed his first model of a submachine gun. In July 1942, Kalashnikov was sent to a scientific testing ground, where the submachine gun underwent full-scale tests.

In 1945, Kalashnikov took part in the competition for the development of an assault rifle chambered for the 1943 model. According to the results of competitive tests, the AK-47 assault rifle was adopted by the Soviet army at the beginning of 1949. Then Kalashnikov received the Order of the Red Star and the Stalin Prize of the first degree "For the development of a model of weapons."

From 1949 he worked in the department of the chief designer of the Izhevsk machine-building plant. In addition to the AK-47, Kalashnikov created a modernized 7.62 mm AKM assault rifle and a modernized AKMS assault rifle with a folding stock. After switching to a 5.45 mm caliber, the AK-74, AKS-74U, AK-74M Kalashnikov assault rifle models were developed. In total, the Kalashnikov design bureau has created more than a hundred samples of military weapons.

In 1971, on the basis of a set of research and development work and inventions, without defending a thesis, Kalashnikov was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Kalashnikov wrote several books of memoirs: "Notes of a weapons designer" (1992), "From someone else's doorstep to the Spassky gate" (1997), "I walked the same road with you: Memoirs" (1999), "Kalashnikov: the trajectory of fate" (2004 ), "In the whirlwind of my life" (2007), "Everything you need is simple" (2009). He was a member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

In the past year, many people have disappeared whose names will remain in Russian and world history. Among them are famous actors, musicians and statesmen.

FEBRUARY

Feltsman Oskar Borisovich

Oscar Feltsman. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Oscar Feltsman was born in Odessa. Already at the age of five, he began to study the violin, a little later on the piano. Oskar Feltsman's first piano piece entitled "Autumn" appeared when he was barely six years old. Among his works were operettas and musical comedies.

Feltsman collaborated with various poets, including Andrei Voznesensky, Rasul Gamzatov, Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Robert Rozhdestvensky and many others. Feltsman's shitties were performed by the masters of the national stage: Leonid Utesov, Mark Bernes, Muslim Magomayev, Maria Pakhomenko, Iosif Kobzon. In recent years, the composer has created a number of chamber works, including those based on poems by Marina Tsvetaeva.

Oscar Feltsman was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the second, third and fourth degrees for his outstanding contribution to the development of Russian musical art and many years of creative activity, as well as the Order of Friendship for his great personal contribution to the development of Russian art. In 1989, Feltsman received the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Vyakhirev Rem Ivanovich

Rem Vyakhirev. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Soviet and Russian manager, statesman, one of the founders of the Gazprom company.

Rem Vyakhirev was born in the village of Bolshaya Chernigovka in the Kuibyshev region and was the eldest child in a family of rural teachers. After graduating from school, he entered the oil faculty of the Kuibyshev Industrial Institute, which he graduated in 1956 with a degree in oil and gas field development. For fifteen years he worked in the Kuibyshevneft association. In 1971 he was appointed head of the Orenburggazdobycha department.

In 1973, Vyakhirev met Viktor Chernomyrdin, and in 1976 became the head of Orenburggazdobycha. From 1983 to 1985, Vyakhirev held the post of Deputy Minister of the USSR Gas Industry, at the same time, on the initiative of Chernomyrdin, the Gazprom company was created.

Since 1992 Rem Vyakhirev has served as the head of the board of the concern. Under him, the company enters the European gas market.

In 2004, Forbes magazine included Vyakhirev in the list of the richest people in Russia.

He died on February 11, 2013 at the 79th year of his life at his dacha in the suburbs. Buried at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

German Alexey Yurievich

Alexey German. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Film director, classic of Russian black and white cinema.

Alexey German Sr. entered the history of cinema as a director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He was born into the family of a writer and screenwriter, author of the script for the film "My Dear Man" by Yuri German and Tatiana Rittenberg. Alexey German's career began in the theater. After graduating from the Leningrad State Theater Institute, he served first at the Smolensk Drama Theater, and then at the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater.

In 1964, Herman came to Lenfilm, where his first job was the film Workers' Village, in which he was the second director.

The film "Checking on the Roads" became the directorial debut of Alexei German. Work on the tape was completed in 1971, but it was only released on screens in 1985. "Check on the roads" was followed by "Twenty days without war" (1976) and "My friend Ivan Lapshin" (1984). The last tape completed by Herman - "Khrustalev, car!" - was released in 1998.

For many years, Aleksey German has worked on a film based on the Strugatsky brothers' novel "It's Difficult to Be God", but this tape never appeared on screens during his lifetime.

Alexey German has been a laureate of numerous awards and prizes. In particular, his work "My friend Ivan Lapshin" received the State Prize of the RSFSR in 1987, and a year later "Checking on the Roads" was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.

The director died on February 21, 2013 at the age of 75 in the clinic of the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg. Buried on February 24 at the Theological cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Van Cliburn

The world famous American pianist, the first winner of the P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Van Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He began to study the piano at the age of 3, and at 13 he gave his first recital.

The pianist became world famous after winning the first International P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow in 1958, which became a sensation - at that moment the Cold War was in full swing. His performance was followed by an eight-minute standing ovation. According to legend, Nikita Khrushchev personally made the decision to award Cliburn the "gold". At that time, the pianist was only 23 years old.

The competition was a watershed moment in Van Cliburn's biography. After his triumph in Moscow, he gained worldwide fame, and at home - in New York - he was greeted as a national hero. The time of incessant performances began. Sometimes a musician had to play 150 concerts a year. But in 1978, Van Cliburn stopped touring to spend more time with his sick mother. He resumed his performances only in 1987 - after playing at a reception at the White House in Washington on the occasion of the visit of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev.

Throughout his musical career, Van Cliburn performed in front of US presidents, representatives of royal families and leaders of countries in Europe, Asia and South America, and visited the USSR on tour.

The pianist has received many awards, including the Russian Order of Friendship. The Russian Academy of Sciences named one of the stars in the constellation Lear after Van Cliburn, and his name is also immortalized in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. The 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, performed by the maestro, was inducted into the US National Academy Hall of Fame.

The pianist has repeatedly returned to Moscow, and within the framework of the First International Festival of Master Classes "Glory to the Maestro!" even gave a series of master classes.

MARCH

Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chavez. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Venezuelan statesman and military leader, President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013

Hugo Chavez was born in the city of Sabaneta in western Venezuela.

In 1975, with the rank of junior lieutenant, he graduated from the Military Academy of Venezuela, then served in the airborne units. In February 1992, Chavez spearheaded a failed coup attempt. In 1994 he created the "V Republic Movement". In 1998 he took over as president of the republic, two years later he won the presidential elections for the second time. In 2002, Chavez withstood an attempted ouster from the presidency. In December 2006 he won the next presidential election.

Hugo Chavez was called the leader of the Bolivarian revolution. He is one of the founders of the political and economic bloc Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America / ALBA /, the author of regional projects in the field of production and sale of hydrocarbons, in particular Petrocaribe, Petrosur, as well as in the media - Telesur TV channel.

Chavez managed to change the country's foreign policy, making Venezuela in a short time the authoritative regional leader, leading the movement against neoliberalism in the Western Hemisphere.

Chavez is buried in the Museum of the Revolution in Caracas. The coffin with his body is placed in a marble sarcophagus and set on a flower-shaped pedestal surrounded by water.

Panin Andrey Vladimirovich

Theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Andrey Panin was born in Novosibirsk. Two years later, the family moved to Chelyabinsk. Then, when Andrei was six years old, he moved to Kemerovo, where he lived for sixteen years. It was the city of Kemerovo that Panin considered his homeland. The actor graduated from the local Institute of Culture, and then moved to Moscow. In 1990, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and became an actor in the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. Among his stage works are roles in the performances "Three Sisters", "The Covetous Knight", "Marriage", "Death Number" and others.

The actor gained fame thanks to the films "Mama, Do Not Cry" by Maxim Pezhemsky and "Mama" by Denis Evstigneev. Mass popularity came to Andrei Panin after the television series "Brigade" directed by Alexei Sidorov. Panin's popularity was also promoted by the success of the television series "Kamenskaya". In addition, Andrei Panin created vivid, memorable characters in the films "Driver for Faith", "Full Moon Day", "Poisons, or the World History of Poisoning" and "The Horseman named Death", "Zhmurki", "Morphine" and many others.

The circumstances of the actor's death are not clear. According to one version, he died in an accident, according to another - he was killed. They buried Andrei Panin at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Mamyshev-Monroe Vladislav Yurievich

Russian performance artist Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe died

Renowned performance artist, creator of Pirate Television, winner of the Kandinsky Prize.

The artist was born in Leningrad. He studied at the literary school number 27, from which he was expelled for drawing and distributing cartoons of members of the Politburo.

In 1986 he began working with the New Artists group, created by Timur Novikov. Mamyshev is known for his performances, where he disguised himself as famous people - the first heroine of his reincarnations was Marilyn Monroe. In this image, Mamyshev performed several times at concerts of the Pop Mechanics group by Sergei Kuryokhin. Since that time, the artist has been assigned the pseudonym Vlad Monroe or Mamyshev-Monroe.

In 2000, the artist found a new image for himself - the Soviet movie star Lyubov Orlova. In 2003 Mamyshev took part in the scandalous exhibition "Beware, Religion!" In 2007, the artist won the Kandinsky Prize in the Media Project of the Year nomination for the original version of the feature film Volga-Volga, where Monroe played the role of Dunya Petrova.

The last exhibition of Mamyshev-Monroe "Polonius", prepared jointly with the photographer Grigory Polyakovsky, was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. It was dedicated to the premiere of the play of the same name at the Polytheater, where the artist played the role of Polonius.

On March 16, Mamyshev-Monroe drowned in a hotel pool on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Buried in St. Petersburg.

Berezovsky Boris Abramovich

Died Boris Berezovsky

Boris Berezovsky is one of the key figures in Russian politics in the 1990s, an entrepreneur and scientist.

In 1989, Berezovsky became one of the founders of the LogoVAZ joint-stock company. From December 1994 to December 7, 1996, he was the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of Public Russian Television AOZT.

In May 1994, Berezovsky created the All-Russian Automobile Alliance (ABBA), within the framework of which he headed the project to create a domestic "people's car".

In 1996-1997, Berezovsky served as secretary of the Russian Security Council, then became an adviser to the head of the Russian presidential administration, Yumashev, and in April 1998 was appointed executive secretary of the CIS.

Since 2000, the businessman has lived in Great Britain, since 2003 - as a political refugee. Since 2001, he has been wanted on charges of fraud, money laundering and an attempted violent seizure of power.

On the morning of March 23, 2013, Berezovsky was found dead at his home in Suri County. According to police, the death of the businessman was caused by hanging. Berezovsky was buried on May 8 in Surrey

Zolotukhin Valery Sergeevich

Died actor and director Valery Zolotukhin

Actor and director.

Valery Zolotukhin was born in Altai into a peasant family. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming an actor and in 1958 he entered the musical comedy department of GITIS. After graduating from the institute in 1963, he received an invitation to the Mossovet Theater, where he worked for a year.

In 1964, the artist moved to the Taganka Theater, where he worked until his last days.

In addition to playing in the theater, Zolotukhin actively acted in films, the role of Bumbarash in the film of the same name brought him nationwide fame. His track record includes roles in the "Master of the Taiga" trilogy, the detective "The Lost of a Witness", the historical film "The Tale of How Tsar Peter Got Married", the paintings "Night Watch" and "Day Watch", "The Master and Margarita", " Dead Souls "and many others.

After leaving the Taganka Theater of the artistic director, Yuri Lyubimov, Zolotukhin took his place. In early March 2013, he was forced to resign from this position due to poor health. Since 2003, Zolotukhin has also been the artistic director of the Altai State Youth Theater.

He was buried in his homeland - in the village of Bystry Istok in Altai.

APRIL

Margaret Thatcher

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990. Thatcher became the first and so far the only woman to hold this post.

Thatcher was able to pull the UK out of the economic crisis of the late 1970s using harsh and unpopular measures, including the privatization of state-owned companies and the refusal to support unpromising enterprises. She also initiated a military solution to the conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, which ended with a British victory.

For her services to the nation, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the title of Baroness on Thatcher in 1992.

In the last years of her life, Margaret Thatcher was seriously ill, the cause of her death was a stroke. According to the will of the deceased, she was buried next to her husband in the cemetery of the military hospital in the London district of Chelsea.

Livshits Alexander Yakovlevich

Alexander Livshits. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Russian economist, finance minister, vice-premier of the government of the Russian Federation in 1996-1997, vice-president of the Russian Aluminum holding in 2001-2013.

Livshits worked in the Russian government in the 1990s. He became Minister of Finance and Deputy Governor for Russia at the IMF in 1996, having also received the post of Deputy Prime Minister.

In 1997, Livshits resigned from the government, becoming the president's representative to the National Banking Council, as well as the deputy head of the presidential administration, where he worked until 1998. In 1999, the economist was Russia's special representative to the G8.

A year later, Livshits resigned from officials, heading the board of the bank "Russian Credit". A year later, he changed his job again, moving to Rusal. It was in the aluminum company that Livshits worked for the last years. The former minister practically did not participate in the political life of the country.

MAY

Balabanov Alexey Oktyabrinovich

Alexey Balabanov. Photo: ITAR-TASS

In 1981, Balabanov graduated from the translation department of the Gorky Pedagogical Institute, in 1983-1987 he worked as an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors.

Among his works are the films "War", "It Doesn't Hurt Me", "About Freaks and People", "Cargo 200", "Zhmurki", "Morphine" and others.

The director's last film, I Want Too, was released on Russian screens in mid-December 2012. It tells about a mystical bell tower, to which people go in the hope of finding happiness. The director played himself in one of the episodes of the film, during which he dies.

Aleksey Balabanov died suddenly while working on another script in the Dyuny sanatorium in the city of Sestroretsk. Buried at the Smolenskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Schmidt Sigurd Ottovich

Sigurd Schmidt. Photo: ITAR-TASS

A well-known Russian historian and ethnographer.

The scientist taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities, headed the Department of Moscow Studies and was an honorary professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

In 1944, Sigurd Schmidt graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University, and in 1949 began teaching at the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, on the basis of which the Russian State University for the Humanities was created. In 1965, Schmidt received his doctorate in history, and five years later became a professor. In 1992 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Schmidt - the author of more than 20 books, a large number of articles - was known in the country as a prominent popularizer of history.

JULY

Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich

Russian programmer, co-founder of Yandex.

Ilya Segalovich was born in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in the family of a geophysicist, USSR State Prize laureate Valentin Segalovich.

In 1986 he graduated from the Geophysical Faculty of the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. After graduation, Segalovich worked as a programmer at the All-Union Institute of Mineral Resources, where he wrote geophysical information systems on Fortran. In the early 1990s, together with his classmate Arkady Volozh, Segalovich coined the word Yandex to denote the technology for searching for unstructured information that they were developing. Subsequently, Segalovich stood at the origins of the creation of the most popular search engine in Runet, and in recent years held the post of technical director of Yandex.

In September 2012, Segalovich was diagnosed with cancer. On July 27, 2013, he died in a London clinic. Buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow

Todorovsky Petr Efimovich

Peter Todorovsky. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Petr Todorovsky was born in the city of Bobrinets in Ukraine. Since the summer of 1943, he was a cadet at the Saratov Military Infantry School, since 1944 - the commander of a mortar platoon in the 93rd Infantry Regiment of the 76th Infantry Division of the 47th Army of the First Belorussian Front. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees and medals. After the war, until 1949, he served as an officer in the military garrison near Kostroma.

In 1954, Todorovsky graduated from the camera department of VGIK and made his debut as a cameraman at the Moldova Film studio. For ten years he worked at the Odessa Film Studio.

As an actor, he starred in the films "It was the month of May", "Bog".

In 1983, he directed the acclaimed film A Wartime Affair, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The director has written music for most of his films.

Pyotr Todorovsky died on May 24, 2013 in Moscow at the age of 88. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

JULY

Gorshenev Mikhail Yurievich

The best performances of the "King and the Jester" group

Musician, lead singer of the "King and the Jester"

Mikhail "Gorshok" Gorshenev was born in the city of Boksitogorsk, Leningrad Region. He began to study music at school. In 1988, together with his classmates Alexander Balunov and Alexander Shchigolev, he founded the "Office" group. In 1990, Andrey Knyazev joined them. In the same year they named their group "The King of Fools", which later received its current name. The musicians released their first studio album, "A Rock on the Head", in 1996. In total, the group recorded 12 studio albums, in 2005 Mikhail Gorshenev released a solo album "I am an alcoholic anarchist".

Buried at the Bogoslovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

AUGUST

Vasily Peskov

Well-known journalist, traveler, writer, one of the hosts of the "In the world of animals" program.

In his youth, Vasily Peskov was fond of photography. One day an employee of the regional newspaper Molodoy Kommunar saw his pictures and invited him to work. This was the impetus for the beginning of journalistic activities.

Three years later, Vasily Mikhailovich was invited to work for the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, where for many years he had been leading the columns "Window to Nature" and "Taiga Dead End". Many of his essays formed the basis of books. So, in 1960, "Notes of a Photo Reporter" was published, and three years later, Peskov's books "Steps in the Dew" and "Wait for Us, Stars" became famous.

The most popular was Peskov's documentary story "Taiga Dead End", published in 1990. It tells the story of Old Believer hermits who fled to the Sayan taiga in the Republic of Khakassia in the 1930s. In the book, Vasily Peskov tells how he established contact with the settlers and won their trust.

In 1991, another collection of essays by Peskov, "Wanderings", was published, where the journalist talks about East Africa, Hungary and the Alps. In 1994, his last book, Alaska More Than You Think, was published.

Despite the rich literary heritage, many remember Vasily Peskov from the program "In the world of animals", which he hosted from 1975 to 1990.

The journalist died in Moscow at the age of 84. According to Peskov's will, his ashes were scattered in his homeland, in the village of Orlovo, Voronezh region.

Soviet and Russian cameraman who has won worldwide fame for his collaboration with directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Bondarchuk

Vadim Yusov was born in the Leningrad Region. In 1954 he graduated from the camera department of VGIK and at the same time began to cooperate with the Mosfilm film studio. In 1960, he first worked with Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the short film Skating Rink and Violin. Since 1983 - Head of the Department of Cinematography at VGIK.

The filmography of Vadim Yusov includes more than 20 films. Among them are Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Ivan's Childhood by Andrei Tarkovsky; "I Walk Through Moscow" by Georgy Danelia; "They fought for the Motherland", "Boris Godunov" by Sergei Bondarchuk and others.

In recent years, Vadim Yusov collaborated with Oleg Dorman in the tapes "Interlinear" and "Svoy Voice", as well as with Andrey Proshkin in the tape "Orange Juice".

Vadim Yusov is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery

NOVEMBER

Yakovlev Yuri Vasilievich

Died actor Yuri Yakovlev

Actor, People's Artist of the USSR.

Yuri Yakovlev was born in Moscow into the family of a lawyer. In the post-war years, he studied at an evening school, at the same time working as an assistant mechanic. In 1948 he tried to enter VGIK, but the commission recognized him as not "cinematic". Then Yakovlev went to the Theater School. B. Shchukin.

In 1952, the actor came to the Vakhtangov Theater, where he worked for over 60 years. Among his roles are Sorin in A. Chekhov's The Seagull, Dudukin in Guilty Without Guilt by A. Ostrovsky, Karenin in Anna Karenina by L. Tolstoy, Pantalone in Princess Turandot and many others. In total, Yuri Yakovlev played more than 40 roles on the stage of the theater.

In 1955, Yuri Yakovlev made his debut on the big screen as Prince Myshkin in the film "The Idiot" based on the novel of the same name by F.M. Dostoevsky.

Among the most famous film works of the actor are the house manager Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha / Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the film by Leonid Gaidai "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession", Ippolit in the main New Year's tape "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath", Lieutenant Rzhevsky in "The Hussar Ballad", boy Bi in the comedic dystopia "Kin-Dza-Dza".

The actor died on the night of November 30, 2013 in a Moscow hospital after a long illness. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

DECEMBER

Nelson Mandela

Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies at death

The first black president of South Africa, one of the most famous human rights activists during the period of apartheid. 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Nelson Mandela was born in southeastern South Africa. In 1943 he began studying law at the university.

During his student years, Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, which was involved in the fight against apartheid. In 1953, the South African government banned him from speaking at public events. In 1956, he was accused of high treason, but then acquitted.

By 1960, when the authorities banned the ANC, Mandela had already become the recognized leader of the organization. In 1961, he headed the ANC military organization, and three years later he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released in 1990.

In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the first national elections in South Africa with the participation of the African majority in 1994, Mandela was elected President of South Africa. He remained at the head of state until 1999.

Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 96 in his home. He was buried on December 15, 2013 in his ancestral village.

Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich

Died designer of small arms Mikhail Kalashnikov

The famous designer of small arms

Mikhail Kalashnikov was born in the Altai Territory into a large peasant family. In 1930, the family was dispossessed and exiled to the village of Nizhnyaya Mokhovaya, Tomsk region.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. During his military service, he developed an inertial counter for recording the number of shots from a tank cannon, adapted a TT pistol for effective firing through slots in a tank turret, and created a device for recording the service life of a tank engine. For the latest invention, the commander of the Kiev military district, General Georgy Zhukov, awarded Kalashnikov with a personalized watch.

In August 1941, Kalashnikov went to the front, but a few months later he was seriously wounded in the battles near Bryansk. While on a six-month vacation, he developed his first model of a submachine gun. In July 1942, Kalashnikov was sent to a scientific testing ground, where the submachine gun underwent full-scale tests.

In 1945, Kalashnikov took part in the competition for the development of an assault rifle chambered for the 1943 model. According to the results of competitive tests, the AK-47 assault rifle was adopted by the Soviet army at the beginning of 1949. Then Kalashnikov received the Order of the Red Star and the Stalin Prize of the first degree "For the development of a model of weapons."

From 1949 he worked in the department of the chief designer of the Izhevsk machine-building plant. In addition to the AK-47, Kalashnikov created a modernized 7.62 mm AKM assault rifle and a modernized AKMS assault rifle with a folding stock. After switching to a 5.45 mm caliber, the AK-74, AKS-74U, AK-74M Kalashnikov assault rifle models were developed. In total, the Kalashnikov design bureau has created more than a hundred samples of military weapons.

In 1971, on the basis of a set of research and development work and inventions, without defending a thesis, Kalashnikov was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Kalashnikov wrote several books of memoirs: "Notes of a weapons designer" (1992), "From someone else's doorstep to the Spassky gate" (1997), "I walked the same road with you: Memoirs" (1999), "Kalashnikov: the trajectory of fate" (2004 ), "In the whirlwind of my life" (2007), "Everything you need is simple" (2009). He was a member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

Let's remember in the last days of the outgoing year about those actors who passed away this year.

Balon Vladimir Yakovlevich (02.23.1937 - 02.02.2013)

Vladimir Balon was born in St. Petersburg. He is a professional athlete, master of sports, champion of the USSR among juniors in foil fencing. Graduated from the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education. In 1958-1961 he was the head coach of the DSO Dynamo, then the coach of CSKA.

He moved to Moscow in the early 60s. Eldar Ryazanov called Balona to the cinema to stage fights and stunts in the film "The Hussar Ballad". In it, Balon played his first role - Kutuzov's adjutant. Then the actor starred in episodes of the films "Give a Book of Complaints", "Nikolai Bauman", "Princess of the Circus", "Impudence", "Petka in Space" and others, worked as stunt directors in such films as "A Year as a Life", "They ring, open the door", "Beware of the car". In the latter, Ryazanov tried Balon for the role of Semytsvetov, which eventually went to Andrei Mironov. He taught how to handle the sword of Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of Detochkin, as well as the four Musketeers in the film "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers.

The most famous work of Balon was the role of the main enemy of d "Artagnan - the captain of the guards, Cardinal Jussac in the film" D "Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich. In life, Boyarsky and Balon were best friends. The actor also became a stunt director in the sequels of films about the adventures of the Musketeers (The Musketeers Twenty Years Later, The Secret of Queen Anne, or The Musketeers Thirty Years Later, The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin).
In the late 80s for staging fencing scenes in "Midshipmen, forward!" Balona was invited by Svetlana Druzhinina. In the film, he also played the role of the Chevalier de Brillier's servant, Jacques.

He died on February 2, 2013 at the Botkin hospital in Moscow from cancer. Mikhail Boyarsky, who had been friends with Vladimir Balon for 40 years, said that before his death the actor looked great: a terrible illness did not destroy his will, he with dignity expected his inevitable death - for example, he was always perfectly shaved. They buried Vladimir Balon at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.

Sergachev Viktor Nikolaevich (11.24.1934 - 02.26.2013)

Victor Nikolaevich Sergachev was born at the Borzya station (now the Trans-Baikal Territory).
After graduating from high school, he entered the Moscow Art Theater School on the course of P.V. Massalsky, from which he graduated in 1956. Then he was accepted into the troupe of the Central Theater of the Soviet Army, in which he served only 1 season: back in 1955, the artist became one of the 6 founders of the Sovremennik Theater. In 1957, the actor made his debut as a director, staging the play "In Search of Joy" with Oleg Efremov based on the play by V. Rozov. In 1971, following Oleg Efremov, Viktor Sergachev moved to the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the theater, which took place in 1987, he served at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

The first notable film role was the role of a district police officer in the film "The End of the World". In 1996, at the Moscow Art Theater, Viktor Sergachev staged his own staging of FM Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, playing the role of the Author and Porfiry Petrovich in the play. He starred in 80 films, among them "The Lost Expedition", "Golden River", "This Merry Planet", "Three Fat Men", "Three Poplars on Plyushchikha".

Viktor Sergachev is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, has the Order of Friendship for many years of fruitful work in the field of theatrical art and in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Art Academic Theater, the Order of Honor, which the artist received for services in the field of culture and art and many years of fruitful work.

Viktor Sergachev died at the N.N. N.V. Sklifosovsky in Moscow on February 26, 2013 from aortic rupture. On March 1, the artist was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Panin Andrey Vladimirovich (05/28/1962 - 03/06/2013)

Born on May 28, 1962 in Novosibirsk, raised in the city of Kemerovo. In Kemerovo he graduated from the directing department of the Institute of Culture. For some time the actor worked at the Minusinsk Theater. In 1991 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (workshop of Alexander Kalyagin) and became an actor in the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov.

Among his stage works are "Three Sisters" (Salty), "The Covetous Knight", "Marriage", the production of Tabakov's studio theater "Death Number", the entertaining production of "Winter" by Evgeny Grishkovets, the sensational "Academy of Laughter" and "Three on swing "in the theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

One of the first roles in cinema Andrei Panin played in the film "In a Straight". The actor gained fame thanks to the films "Mama, Do Not Cry", "Mama", the television series "Kamenskaya" and "Border. Taiga Romance". Mass popularity came to the actor after the television series "Brigade" (2002), where he skillfully played the role of a corrupt policeman who went into deep crime in the early 1990s. In total, he starred in more than 70 films, including "Wedding," 24 Hours "," Driver for Vera "," Shadowboxing "," Zhmurki "One of the last roles - Watson in the Russian TV series" Sherlock Holmes ".

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Laureate of the "Crystal Turandot" award for the performance "Death Number". Winner of the Seagull Prize in the Best Villain nomination for the role of the Baron in the 1996 play Little Tragedies. Laureate of the Seagull Prize in the Double Impact nomination - the best theatrical duet (with Nikolai Fomenko) for the performance “Academy of Laughter” in 2001. Idol of the Year Award for his role as Tsubaki in the Academy of Laughs and for his role as Garkusha in the 2001 film The Wedding.
Laureate of the Triumph Youth Prize for 2001. Awarded with "Nika" and "Golden Aries" film awards, winner of prizes at the "Window to Europe" and "Constellation" festivals.

He died in Moscow. The body of Andrei Panin with a head wound was found in his apartment (accident, hit his head). Buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Zolotukhin Valery Igorevich (06/21/1941 - 03/30/2013)

Born on June 21, 1941 in the village of Bystry Istok, Altai Territory. As a child, he had to endure a serious illness. He lay there for several years, chained to a bed. Until the tenth grade I walked on crutches. And yet he believed that he would become an actor. After school, leaving the village, for the first time in his life he boarded a train and went to Moscow to enroll in a theater institute. Graduated from GITIS brilliantly in the department of musical comedy (1963). He played at the Mossovet Theater (1963-1964). Since 1964 he played at the Taganka Theater, becoming one of its brightest and most talented actors. From October 2011 to March 2013 he was the artistic director of the Taganka Theater.

He actively acted in films, he was best known for his role as district police officer Serezhkin in the trilogy "Master of the Taiga", "The disappearance of a witness and" Preliminary investigation ", as well as roles in the films" Bumbarash "," The Tale of How Tsar Peter the Arap Married "," Little Tragedies "," Night Watch "and" Day Watch "(2005).

He died of brain cancer at the Russian Center for X-ray and Radiology in Moscow (he was in a coma for two weeks). Buried on April 5 at home.

Mamaev Viktor Viktorovich (03/17/1955 - 05/13/2013)

Victor Mamaev was born on March 17, 1955. Graduated from GITIS in 1979. He starred in the films of Sergei Bondarchuk, such as "Boris Godunov" and "Quiet Don", while he helped the director as an assistant in organizing crowd scenes. For his role in the film "Father and Son" he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In the movie, he mainly played the roles of tough guys, builders of communism, sailors, just strong men.

Since 1979 he has directed 47 performances, directed the theatrical studio "Russians" (1979-1996). In 1980 he became a co-director of the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow. It is believed that it was he who launched the Olympic Bear into the sky. In 1981, Mamaev was awarded the title of "People's Artist" of the RSFSR, which he refused in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR.

The last years of his life Viktor Viktorovich courageously fought against a serious illness: doctors diagnosed him with cancer in the last stage. On May 14, he was found dead in his apartment in Moscow.

Bogunova, Natalia Vasilievna (04/08/1948 - 08/09/2013)

The actress was born on April 8, 1948 in Leningrad. She studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School named after I. A. Vaganova. She began acting in films at the age of 11 (the film "Introduction", directed by Igor Talankin). In 1970 she graduated from VGIK (workshop of Boris Babochkin). After graduating from VGIK, Natalia began to work in the theater. Mossovet, where Lyubov Orlova shone then. She worked at the Bogunova Theater for 17 years.

The actress's track record includes several dozen film roles - major and episodic: Daisy ("Running on the Waves"), Inga ("Goodbye, Boys"), Snow Maiden ("A Spring Tale"), the musician's bride ("Clever Things"), ballerina ( "Grand pa").

But she was especially remembered for the popular to this day film "Big Break", where she played the main role of Svetlana Afanasyevna, a teacher of Russian language and literature. "Big Change" has broken every imaginable popularity record. Bogunova was not given a pass on the street and in transport, and everyone was sure that she was really the wife of actor Alexander Zbruev. Her last small film work was the role of the postmaster in the movie "Running on the Sunny Side" in 1992. Since then, the actress has not starred.

She died while on holiday on the island of Crete, Greece, the cause of death was myocardial infarction.

Martsevich, Eduard Evgenievich (12/29/1936 - 10/12/2013)

Eduard Martsevich was born on December 29, 1936 in Tbilisi. In childhood, Eduard Martsevich studied in various circles: dance, singing, art reading, drama. Graduated from the Theater School. M.S.Shchepkina (1959). Martsevich's loud debut was the performance of the role of Hamlet on the theater stage. The actor played in the Mayakovsky Theater and the Maly Theater, acted in films a lot, more than 70 roles, in particular, in the films "Fathers and Sons", "War and Peace", "TASS is authorized to declare ...", "Ideal husband", " Red tent ". In 1987 Martsevich was awarded the title "People's Artist of Russia". One of the last films of Martsevich was the film by Sergei Solovyov "Anna Karenina".

On October 2, in serious condition, he was urgently hospitalized in the Department of Acute Endotoxicosis of the Institute named after Sklifosovsky with cirrhosis of the liver. Died October 12, 2013 without regaining consciousness

Aroseva Olga Alexandrovna (12/21/1925 - 10/13/2013)

Olga Aroseva was born in Moscow into the family of the famous Bolshevik and diplomat Alexander Arosev. Olga spent her childhood abroad - in Paris, Stockholm and Prague. In 1933, the Arosev family returned to Moscow. During her school years, she participated in the school drama circle, studied at the Klyuchnikov children's theater studio.

With the beginning of World War II, Olga Aroseva entered the circus school, and then, like her sister, at the Moscow City Theater School. But she did not manage to finish it, since in 1946 she was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. In 1950 Olga Aroseva returned to Moscow and entered the Moscow Satire Theater. During her long and fruitful artistic career in the theater, she played many roles, all of which were played with comedic brilliance and amazing accuracy.

Olga Aroseva made her film debut in 1948 in the film "Precious Grains". Then there were the pictures "We met somewhere ...", "A girl without an address" and others. But the first big success in cinema was the role of Lyuba in Eldar Ryazanov's comedy "Beware of the Car".
In total, the actress has more than 40 roles, among which one cannot fail to mention her work in the tragicomedy "Intervention", in the musical comedy "Trembita", in the comedies "Old Robbers" and "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia". Since the 80s, working in cinema has become an extremely rare phenomenon for Aroseva, she almost completely switched to the theater.

Olga Aroseva brought nationwide fame to her role in the television show "Zucchini" 13 Chairs. " Honored Worker of Culture of Poland ".

Another page in the creative biography of Olga Aroseva is her work in animation. The eccentric Baba Yaga from the series of Olympic cartoons "Baba Yaga against" and Mrs. Belladonna from "The Adventures of Funtik Pig" also speak in her voice.

People's Artist of Russia Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva was awarded the Order of Honor and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree. She is the winner of the State Prize of the RSFSR in 1977.

In the last years of her life, she struggled with a serious cancer. At the end of the summer of 2013, she fell seriously ill. Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva died on October 13, 2013 in the Moscow region.

Yakovlev Yuri Vasilievich (04/25/1928 - 11/30/2013)

Yuri Yakovlev was born in Moscow into the family of a lawyer. With the beginning of World War II, the Yakovlev family was evacuated to Ufa, where 13-year-old Yuri worked with his mother in a hospital. In 1943, the Yakovlevs returned to Moscow. The future actor went to night school, worked as an assistant mechanic in the garage to help the family.

In 1948 he entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, but failed in the entrance exams - the admissions committee passed the verdict "not cinematic." However, then the future popularly beloved theater and film actor was admitted to the famous B. Shchukin Theater School. After graduation in 1952, Yakovlev entered the troupe of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater, where he worked for the rest of his life.
On the stage of the theater, Yuri Yakovlev has played more than 70 roles.

The actor began acting in films in 1956. Yakovlev's track record includes more than 100 roles. Glory came to Yuri Yakovlev in 1958, when he played Prince Myshkin in the film version of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, directed by Ivan Pyriev. 1960-1980 years became the most fruitful and vivid in the biography of Yakovlev. The actor created memorable, voluminous, multifaceted images.

Audience love won Yakovlev's roles in the films of Eldar Ryazanov - Lieutenant Rzhevsky in The Hussar Ballad (1962) and Ippolit in the TV movie The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975). In addition, among the most remembered by the audience of Yakovlev's works is Leonid Gaidai's comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession", where the actor played two roles at once - the house manager of Bunshi and Tsar Ivan the Terrible, as well as the film by Georgy Danelia "Kin-dza-dza", in which Yakovlev starred with Evgeny Leonov and Stanislav Lyubshin.

Yuri Vasilievich was awarded many honorary awards. In 1976 he received the title of People's Artist of the USSR. He also won the Chekhov Medal, the Crystal Turandot Prize and the Golden Masks competition. For an outstanding creative and scientific contribution to the artistic culture of Russia, he was awarded the prize of the President of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Yakovlev died after a serious, prolonged illness in a Moscow hospital, where the actor was taken after fainting. Yuri Yakovlev was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Norbert Georg Kuchinke (01.01.1940 - 03.12.2013)

Kuchinke was born on January 1, 1940 in the Black Forest in Silesia (now Charny Boer, Poland), where many immigrants from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia lived. Until 1957 he studied at a Russian school. He mastered the Russian language quite well.

Since 1973, Kukhinke was the first Moscow correspondent for the "Der Spiegel" magazine.

In the Soviet Union, he became famous for the role of the witty professor - Slavist from Denmark Bill Hansen, which he played in the film "Autumn Marathon" by George Danelia. After that he played several more cameo roles of foreigners in such films as "Two Chapters from a Family Chronicle", "Boris Godunov", "Nastya", "Where Do Children Come From?" From under his pen came the books: "God in Russia", "Russia under the Cross", "Eternal Russia", "From Genghis Khan to Gorbachev".

He took an active part in the construction of the Orthodox St. George Monastery in Götschendorf (Germany). Kukhinke was awarded two Orders of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir and the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow for cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church. According to Father Daniel, Norbert, a deeply religious Catholic, for many years “was a great friend of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.

He died in the capital's clinic in Berlin after a long illness.

Time is fleeting and every year a series of bitter losses lie in wait for us. 2013 was no exception. This year, many famous politicians, musicians, actors left the world ... Let's remember these famous people.

1. On December 23, at the age of 94, Mikhail Kalashnikov died in a hospital ward in Izhevsk. For almost a month, doctors fought for his life, but, unfortunately, his advanced age made itself felt and the doctors were powerless. The health condition of the legendary designer seriously deteriorated in the spring of 2012, so he was forced to leave his post and go to retirement. Initially, the man underwent a series of examinations in Moscow. Later, doctors of the Republican Clinical and Diagnostic Center (RCDC) of Udmurtia watched him. In December, Mikhail Kalashnikov was hospitalized here for a routine examination. Here he died. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed their condolences to the family and friends of the legendary gunsmith. The head of Udmurtia, Alexander Volkov, took responsibility for organizing the funeral. Buried was a weapons-maker according to his rank at the Federal War Memorial Cemetery.

2. Nelson Mandela passed away on December 5 this year. The former President of South Africa and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate died quietly at home, surrounded by loved ones. Mandela has long suffered from a lung infection. In June of this year, his condition deteriorated sharply. Hospitalization did not help. The condition of the former South African president remained steadily critical. In the last months before his death, the man ceased to recognize anyone, perceive speech and speak. Even then, doctors admitted their powerlessness in the face of the disease and suggested disconnecting the patient from life-supporting devices, but the family refused. They fought to the last for the life of this great man. The death of Nelson Mandela was announced by the current President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. The funeral took place on December 15 in the family village of Tsgunu.

3. “Irony of Fate” was watched by every inhabitant of the post-Soviet space not once and of course everyone remembers one of the main characters of this film, Ippolit, played by People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Yakovlev. This is how he will be remembered by most of us - young, handsome and full of energy. I can't even believe that he is no longer with us. The actor died on the night of November 30 in a Moscow hospital. The cause of death was heart attack or pulmonary edema (data vary). The farewell took place at the Vakhtangov Theater, which is native to Yakovlev. The artist was buried on December 3 at the Novodevichy cemetery. Many people brought ritual wreaths.

4. On November 30, famous actor and model Paul Walker died in a car accident. He was only forty. The accident happened in the city of Santa Clarita. The actor, along with his friend, came here to take part in an auto show, the purpose of which was to raise funds to help victims of the typhoon in the Philippines. But at one point the driver lost control of the car. The Porsche Carrera GT glided, hitting a lamp post, then crashed and caught fire. Both passengers died on the spot. The funeral took place on December 14, 2013 in Glendale, California. Some fans of the movie "Fast and the Furious" still do not believe in the death of their favorite actor. They are sure that this is a PR stunt to attract attention to the seventh part of the famous franchise, which is due out on the screens next summer. Fans argue that there are many inconsistencies and inconsistencies in the Fast and the Furious star case.

5. On the night of July 18-19, 2013, Mikhail Gorshenev, the leader of the famous rock group The King and the Fool, passed away. The body of the thirty-nine-year-old musician was found by his wife. When the police examined the house, a syringe and a spoon were found. This suggested that Gorshenev was taking drugs. Earlier in the press, information has already appeared that the singer is addicted to drugs. But, according to the musician himself, he did not have an addiction, and he could easily part with a bad habit at any time. An autopsy showed that the artist died from acute heart failure caused by severe intoxication. Two ppm of alcohol was found in the blood. The civil funeral service for Mikhail Gorshenyov took place on July 22, 2013, at the Yubileiny sports complex in St. Petersburg. The deceased was against any burial rituals and asked after death to cremate his body and scatter the ashes. But the will of the deceased was fulfilled only partially. Cremation was carried out, and the ashes were buried in the main alley of the Theological cemetery in St. Petersburg on August 1.

6. American actor, star of the series "The Sopranos" James Gandolfini died on July 19 in Rome. He and his thirteen-year-old son Michael were on vacation in Italy. Suddenly, in a hotel room, the actor lost consciousness. The teenager was not taken aback and quickly called for help. An ambulance team was called. Doctors took James Gandolfini to the Policlinico Umberto I hospital. During the entire journey and forty minutes after arriving at the hospital, doctors performed resuscitation procedures. Unfortunately, their actions were unsuccessful. At 22.30, the heart of the actor, who was only 51 years old, stopped beating. An autopsy performed two days later showed that the cause of death was myocardial infarction. On June 26, all Broadway theaters turned off their lights for one minute in order to honor the memory of the great artist. On June 27, farewell to Gandolfini took place at the New York Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. It was attended by virtually all of the key cast of The Sopranos.

7. Russian film director Alexei Balabanov died of a heart attack in the Dyuny sanatorium in the village of Solnechnoye, Leningrad Region. According to relatives, the man was working on a new script, but suddenly lost consciousness and fell. Nobody could help Balabanov. The director died without regaining consciousness. His friends said that the man had long suffered from a serious chronic illness, which only the people closest to him knew about. An autopsy showed that the cause of death was acute heart failure. The civil funeral service at Lenfilm, according to the will of the deceased, was not held. The funeral service was held on May 21 at the Prince Vladimir Cathedral. Alexei Balabanov was buried on the same day at the Smolensk cemetery.

8. The eighth of April this year did not become the legendary "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher. In recent years, the woman was very sick and underwent a number of operations. The cause of death was a stroke. Thatcher herself led the preparations for the funeral, starting in 2005. Since all events with the participation of the queen are planned in advance. A detailed plan of the event was drawn up and all the nuances were discussed. The funeral was to be attended by all members of the royal family and prominent politicians of the Thatcher era. Mikhail Gorbachev was also included in the list, but he was unable to attend the funeral in London due to poor health. After the funeral service, cremation took place, and the ashes, according to the will of the deceased, were buried next to her husband Denis in the cemetery of the military hospital in London's Chelsea district. The organization of the funeral cost the treasury six million pounds. But not all of England mourned Margaret Thatcher during these. The Iron Lady had many opponents. It was they who celebrated vigorously and organized a number of street parties and demonstrations in honor of the ex-prime minister's passing. Most often, they played a song from the old 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead ". Its name translates as "Ding-dong, the witch is dead." During the April days of 2013, the song became very popular and even took second place on the official consolidated UK chart.

9. People's Artist of Russia Valery Zolotukhin since December 2012 has ceased to appear in public and to participate in any performances. The reason for this behavior was illness. Doctors diagnosed the actor with glioblastoma. At the moment, doctors are absolutely powerless against this disease. Even complete removal of the tumor does not prolong the patient's life. On March 5, the man was hospitalized. On March 30, the 71-year-old artist passed away. Farewell to Valery Zolotukhin took place on April 2 at the Taganka Theater, and on April 4 in Barnaul at the Altai Youth Theater. The actor was buried, as he bequeathed, on the territory of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, which was built at his own expense, in the village of Bystry Istok in Altai. The actor was born and raised here.

10. The fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has lived in the suburbs of London in recent years. On March 23, 2013, he was found lying supine on the floor in a locked bathroom in a house owned by his ex-wife Galina. A knot of cloth was tied tightly around the man's neck. The other end of the cloth was attached to the shower bar. There were no signs of a struggle anywhere. But the police still do not exclude the fact that it was not without outside participation. Not a single posthumous photograph of Berezovsky has been published anywhere.

11. At 11 am on March 7, the body of 50-year-old actor Andrei Panin was found in his apartment on Balaklavsky Prospekt, in the south of Moscow. Initially, forensic experts suggested that the actor fell, hit his head and died of blood loss. But this version was not confirmed. There were many bruises on the body of the deceased. Before his death, Panin was severely beaten and mutilated. Strange sounds and groans that came from the artist's apartment were heard by the neighbors. But they did not attach any importance to them. The farewell took place on March 12 at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater School. The funeral service was held in the Church of the Resurrection of Slovusche in Bryusovsky Lane. Panin was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. In April 2013, he was posthumously awarded the Nika Prize for Best Supporting Actor.

12. 58-year-old Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died from the effects of cancer on March 5 this year. His death was announced by Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro on national television. Chavez's body was planned to be embalmed. But after consulting with Russian experts, the Venezuelan authorities abandoned this venture. The Comandante was buried with honors in the Museum of the Revolution in Caracas. The coffin with Chavez's body was placed in a marble sarcophagus and placed on a flower-shaped pedestal surrounded by water.

As sad as it may be, 2013 was the last year for all the celebrities you will see in the continuation of the recording. Let's remember which of the famous people passed away in 2013.

On this day, the famous Russian actor Andrei Panin died. The 50-year-old actor was found in his apartment, he no longer showed signs of life. The main version of Andrey's death is violent. Before being killed, he could have been severely beaten. The experts recorded numerous injuries and traumatic brain injury.

On this day, People's Artist of Russia Valery Zolotukhin passed away. In the winter of 2012, he was diagnosed with cancer, and on March 4, 2013, he was taken to intensive care. On March 14, doctors put him into a state of an artificial coma, according to them, the cancer was diagnosed at a too late stage, when the brain tumor was very widespread and was not resectable. Valery Zolotukhin was 72 years old.

At the age of 88, Margaret Thatcher died of a heart attack. The cause of her death was a heart attack. Her health has deteriorated in recent years, and she suffered several strokes, one of which resulted in death.

On May 18, at the age of 54, director Alexei Balabanov passed away, having directed such films as "Brother" and "It Doesn't Hurt Me". Heart failure was the cause of his death. His son said in an interview that he would complete the film, which his father began to shoot.

On this day, American actor James Gandolfini died as a result of a sudden cardiac arrest. He was 51 years old.

On this day, the soloist of the King and Jester group Mikhail Gorshenev passed away. The death of the 39-year-old artist was overtaken in his house in St. Petersburg, and alcohol and drugs were officially recognized as the cause of his death. Information appeared in the press that a syringe was found in Mikhail's hand, and a spoon lay nearby.

On November 30, a well-known Hollywood actor, known to the Russian audience for the film "Fast and Furious", died tragically. The actor died in an accident in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

On the day of Paul Walker's death at the age of 86, the famous Russian actor Yuri Yakovlev died. The official cause of death has not yet been established, but there is information that the actor suffered from increased eye pressure, which could lead to fainting, as a result of which he died.

In the 96th year, the first black president, Nelson Mandela, passed away. His death was announced by the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. According to him, Nelson left very quietly, around 20:50 in the circle of his relatives.