Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Acting

Born February 8, 1928 · Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union

Died December 4, 2009

Also known as Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов · Viatcheslav Tikhonov · В. Тихонов

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.

Awards & recognition

Order of Honour · 2008
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class · 2003
Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour · 1998
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class · 1995
Hero of Socialist Labour · 1982

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Order of Lenin · 1982
Lenin Prize · 1980
Shevchenko National Prize · 1980
Lenin Komsomol Prize · 1979
Order of the October Revolution · 1978
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR · 1976
People's Artist of the USSR · 1974
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" · 1970
USSR State Prize · 1970
People's Artist of the RSFSR · 1969
Merited Artist of the RSFSR · 1962
Government Prize in Culture
Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Nika Lifetime Achievement Award
Order of the Badge of Honour
Prize of the Federal Security Service of Russia