| Birth Name: | Pavel Oganezovich Arsenov |
| Birth Date: | 1936 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tiflis, Transcaucasian Republic, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation: | film director, actor, screenwriter |
| Other Names: | Pavel Arsenoff |
| Yearsactive: | 1962 — 1994 |
Pavel Oganezovich Arsenov (Russian: Павел Оганезович Арсе́нов; 1936 — 1999) was a Soviet and Russian film actor, screenwriter and film director. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1996).[1]
Pavel was born on January 5, 1936, in Tiflis. He studied at the Institute of Geological Survey and graduated from the directing department of VGIK (1963, workshop of Grigori Roshal).
Before studying at VGIK, he worked at the Kartuli Pilmi, the Moscow studio of popular science films. He acted in a number of films of the studio Armenfilm, in particular, in the film (director Yuri Yerzinkyan).
Since 1962 he was the director of the Gorky Film Studio. A vivid event was the avant-garde film King Stag. The greatest popularity to film director Pavel Arsenov was brought by the 5-serial children's television movie Guest from the Future, which appeared on screens in March 1985. After that, Alisa Seleznyova's film character, created by Arsenov and embodied on the screen of a 12-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Natasha Guseva, became a cult for millions of Soviet schoolchildren.[2]
Died August 12, 1999, in Moscow. He was buried at the Shcherbinskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[3]
The first wife (from 1963 to 1969) was actress Valentina Malyavina.[4] The second wife (since 1976) — Elena Arsenova.[4] Daughter Elizaveta (born 1980) works as a make-up stylist in Moscow theaters.[5]