Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (Russian: Влади́мир Серге́евич Ивашо́в; 28 August 1939 — 23 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor.
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Biography
He had a film career that spanned over 30 years. He is best known for his role as Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov in Ballad of a Soldier which he starred in with Zhanna Prokhorenko in 1959. The film was awarded the Moscow International Film Festival award in 1960. It also won the Lenin Award. The film was kept in the film hall of The Kremlin to be shown to foreign guests.
Ivashov died in Moscow, Russia, on 23 March 1995 of acute gastric ulcer at the age of 55. Asteroid 12978 Ivashov, discovered by Lyudmila Zhuravleva in 1978, was named in his memory.
Personal life
He married actress Svetlana Svetlichnaya and had two sons, Oleg and Alexey.
Selected filmography
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as Alyosha Skvortsov
Seven Nannies (1962) as Viktor
Hero of Our Time (1965) as Grigory Pechorin
The Hockey Players (1965) as Morozov
Torrents of Steel (1967) as Alexey Prikhodko
The Nile and the Life (1968) as Nikolai
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968) as lieutenant Perov, Kudasov's adjutant
The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers (1971) as former lieutenant Perov
Those People of the Nile (1972) as Nikolai
Hopelessly Lost (1973) as Colonel Sherborne
Remember Your Name (1974) as major
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1975) as Isayev
Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976) as Andrey Afanasevich Potebnya
Father Sergius (1978) as episode
Inquest of Pilot Pirx (1979) as Harry Brown
Star Inspector (1980) as Sergey Lazarev
Day of Wrath (1985) as Cast