Nikolai Kryuchkov Explained

Nikolai Kryuchkov
Birth Name:	Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov
Birth Date:	6 January 1911
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Moscow, Russia
Resting Place:	Novodevichy Cemetery
Occupation:	Actor
Yearsactive:	1927–1993

Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (ru|Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 - 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.^[1] ^[2]

Selected filmography

Outskirts (1933)
By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
The Return of Maxim (1937)
The Vyborg Side (1939)
Salavat Yulayev (1941)
They Met in Moscow (1941)
In the Rear of the Enemy (1941)
In the Name of the Fatherland (1943)
Heavenly Slug (1945)
Happy Flight (1949)
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
The Lights of Baku (1950)
Sporting Honour (1951)
Bountiful Summer (1951)
The Star (1953)
Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955)
The Forty-First (1956)
Leningrad Symphony (1957)
Over Tissa (1958)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Cruelty (1959)
Hussar Ballad (1962)
Balzaminov's Marriage (1964)
Come Here, Mukhtar! (1965)
There Was an Old Couple (1965)
Give me a complaints book (1965)
Two Comrades Were Serving (1968)
Town People (1975)
Autumn Marathon (1979)
Battle of Moscow (1985)
Stalingrad (1989)

Awards and honors

Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1967, 1971)
Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980)^[3]
Stalin Prize, 1st class (1941)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1942)
Order of the Red Star (1944)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950)
People's Artist of the USSR (1965)
Order of the October Revolution (1974)
Hero of Socialist Labour (1980)
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
Nika Award for the Lifetime Achievement Award (1991)

Notes and References

Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 375–376.
News: Obituary: Nikolai Kryuchkov. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nikolai-kryuchkov-1371355.html . 21 June 2022 . subscription . live. London, UK. The Independent. Jeanne. Vronskaya. 20 April 1994.
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