Pyotr Zaychenko Explained

Birth Name:	Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko
Birth Date:	1943 4, df=y
Birth Place:	Kaysatskoye, Stalingrad Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Death Place:	Volgograd, Russia^[1]
Occupation:	Actor
Years Active:	1971–2019
Nationality:	Russian

Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (Russian: Пётр Петрович Зайченко; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019)^[2] was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.^[3]

Career

Fame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in Vadim Abdrashitov's Planet Parade (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game and Armavir.

In 1990, Zaychenko played Ivan Shlykov in Pavel Lungin's Taxi Blues.

He was director of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.^[4]

Selected filmography

• Planet Parade (1984) as Ivan Pukhov
• Attempted Electrification (1985) as Shcherbakov
• Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game (1987) as druzhinnik
• Taxi Blues (1990) as Shlykov^[5]
• The Tale of the Outstanding Moon (1990) as Vasily Vasilievich
• Armavir (1991) as Arthur
• Lost in Siberia (1991) as investigator
• Stalin's Testament (1993) as general, presidential candidate
• Krapachuk (1993) as Chelorek
• Concerto for Fats (1995) as Pronin
• Crusader (1995) as drug trafficker Tosha
• A Moslem (1995) as Pavel Petrovich
• The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998) as Igor, businessman
• Wolfhound (2006) as Fitela
• Free Floating (2006) as Elderly man from brigade
• Last Slaughter (2007) as Anatoly
• Taras Bulba (2008) as Metelitsa
• Home (2011) as Alexey Shamanov
• Siberia, Monamour (2011) as grandfather Ivan^[4]
• Leningrad 46 (2014) as the old man near the temple
• Sophia (2016) as Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

Awards

• Medal "For Labour Valour" (1986)
• Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1998)^[6]
• Order of Friendship (2014)^[7]

External links

• • Пётр Зайченко at the rusactors.ru
• Pyotr Zaychenko on KinoPoisk

Notes and References

1. https://v1.ru/text/culture/66026140 «Все говорят — актёр, а для меня он дедушка»: Пётр Зайченко очень хотел вернуться домой из больницы
2. https://volg.mk.ru/culture/2019/03/21/skonchalsya-volgogradskiy-artist-petr-zaychenko.html Скончался волгоградский артист Пётр Зайченко
3. http://www.vlg.aif.ru/culture/art/69837 Пётр Зайченко: «Волгоград – трудно-театральный город»
4. https://rg.ru/2011/03/10/zaichenko-poln.html Пётр Зайченко сыграл старика ценой собственного здоровья
5. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1990/awardCompetition.html Festival de Cannes, Awards 1990
6. http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=067085 Награждён указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года
7. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201412260005?index=15&rangeSize=1&filtercode=daily&back=False Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 декабря 2014 года № 810 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»