| Vasili Vanin | |
| Birth Name: | Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin |
| Birth Date: | 13 January 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Tambov, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | 12 May 1951 (aged 53) |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting Place: | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Occupation: | Actor, theater director, pedagogue |
| Awards: | People's Artist of the USSR |
Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue.[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1949).[2]
Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage[3] / Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.