Viktor Korshunov
Born	Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov (1929-11-24)24 November 1929 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	17 April 2015(2015-04-17) (aged 85) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director, pedagogue
Years active	1951—2015

Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Ко́ршунов; 24 November 1929 – 17 April 2015) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).

Biography

He was born in Moscow on Sukharevskaya Street.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1959.

He died in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Selected filmography

• Early Joys (1956) – Kirill Izvekov
• An Unusual Summer (1957) – Kirill Izvekov
• The Magpie (1958) – Stepan
• On Thin Ice (1966) – Dmitry Dmitriyevich Bragin
• Retribution (1967) – Chief of the military hospital
• Goal! Another Goal! (1968) – Andrei Pavlovich Tamantsev, coach
• Bonivur's Heart (1969) – Boris Lyubansky
• Corps of General Shubnikov (1980) – Army general

Awards and honors

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969)^[1]
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
• Order of the October Revolution (1974)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1980)
• Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1984)^[2][3]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1994)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2005)^[4]

References

External links

• Viktor Korshunov at IMDb
• Виктор Коршунов — играющий директор