Pyotr Zaychenko

Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor

Pyotr Zaychenko

Born	Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (1943-04-01)1 April 1943 Kaysatskoye, Stalingrad Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died	21 March 2019(2019-03-21) (aged 75) Volgograd, Russia^[1]
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1971–2019

Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (Russian: Пётр Петрович Зайченко; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019)^[2] was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.^[3]

Career

Fame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in Vadim Abdrashitov's Planet Parade (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game and Armavir.

In 1990, Zaychenko played Ivan Shlykov in Pavel Lungin's Taxi Blues.

He was director of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.^[4]

Selected filmography

Planet Parade (1984) as Ivan Pukhov
Attempted Electrification (1985) as Shcherbakov
Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game (1987) as druzhinnik
Taxi Blues (1990) as Shlykov^[5]
The Tale of the Outstanding Moon (1990) as Vasily Vasilievich
Armavir (1991) as Arthur
Lost in Siberia (1991) as investigator
Stalin's Testament (1993) as general, presidential candidate
Krapachuk (1993) as Chelorek
Concerto for Fats (1995) as Pronin
Crusader (1995) as drug trafficker Tosha
A Moslem (1995) as Pavel Petrovich
The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998) as Igor, businessman
Wolfhound (2006) as Fitela
Free Floating (2006) as Elderly man from brigade
Last Slaughter (2007) as Anatoly
Taras Bulba (2008) as Metelitsa
Home (2011) as Alexey Shamanov
Siberia, Monamour (2011) as grandfather Ivan^[4]
Leningrad 46 (2014) as the old man near the temple
Sophia (2016) as Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

Awards

Medal "For Labour Valour" (1986)
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1998)^[6]
Order of Friendship (2014)^[7]

References

^ «Все говорят — актёр, а для меня он дедушка»: Пётр Зайченко очень хотел вернуться домой из больницы (in Russian)
^ Скончался волгоградский артист Пётр Зайченко (in Russian)
^ Пётр Зайченко: «Волгоград – трудно-театральный город» (in Russian)
^ ^a ^b Пётр Зайченко сыграл старика ценой собственного здоровья (in Russian)
^ Festival de Cannes, Awards 1990
^ Награждён указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года Archived 2010-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 декабря 2014 года № 810 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»