Today Leonid Bykov

Leonid Bykov (December 12, 1928, the village of Znamenskoye, Donetsk region - 11 April 1979 Kiev, Ukraine) - Soviet actor, director, screenwriter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1974).





Leonid Bykov was born on December 12, 1928 in the village of Znamenskoye Donetsk region in a family of Fedor Ivanovich and Zinaida Pankratovny bulls. In 1929 the family moved to the city Kramatorsk where Bykov graduated from high school number 6, ibid first appeared on the stage of the local House of Culture named after Lenin. During WWII, Leonid together with his family was evacuated to Barnaul. Since childhood he dreamed about aviation and walked twice in the Flight School. The first time - in Oirot tour (in 1943), which was evacuated in 1942 2nd Leningrad school of military pilots, but there he was not taken because of the currently assigned age and small stature. The second time - in Leningrad (1945), in the 2 nd special school for pilots, which was later disbanded due to the war.

The Theatre Institute in Kiev was not adopted, but entered and graduated from the acting department of Kharkiv Theatre Institute (1951). In 1951-1960 - actor Kharkov State Academic Theater. Shevchenko. The theater began his acting career, playing the Bulls in the comedy "The street three nightingales, 17" Hipsters - Soviet mod. [2] In 1960-1968 - actor and director "Lenfilm" studio, since 1969 - an actor and director Dovzhenko film studio. Written satirical newsreel "wick».

In the movie, her first role Leonid Bykov played in 1952 in the film "The fate of Marina." The next role he got in the film "Tiger Girl", where he played Pete Mokina. In 1955 - the main role in the movie "Maxim Perepelitsa».

Among the best roles Leonid Bykov in the movie can be called Bogatyrev ("My dear man," 1958), Akishina ("Volunteers", 1958), Alyosha ("Aleshkin love", 1960) Garkusha ("On Seven Winds", 1962) .

At the end of the 60s, along with Eugene and Alexander Satskaya Onopriyenko was established screenplay about pilots, who for a long time did not pass censorship, because of its "negeroichnosti." After a long wait, in 1972, the Bulls began to shoot motion picture "go to fight some" old "," which played a major role.

In 1977 he was filmed another movie - "Aty-Baty, were soldiers." In 1978, the satirical fiction began shooting the film "Alien" on the novel by Eugene Shatsko "Alien-73", in which Leonid Bykov participated as a writer, director and performer starring alien Glouza. By 1979 it had already filmed two parts of the film to videotape, presented to the court critics. The picture will be successful, but the fate of the ruined plans. According to one theory [3], during the filming of the picture, she writes Leonid strange letter-testament to the name of his friends Nicholas and Ivan Mashchenko Mykolaychuk, as if anticipating the tragedy of an ambulance. On the other hand, [4] the will was written three years before his death, after suffering a heart attack them. The letter, according to the memoirs of his daughter Mariana, was written on a small sheet of paper, in the style of his father, titled "And if this is the end ...»:

... Let someone say one word "goodbye," and everything. Do not be a circus, called the honors. After that, "derbolyznite" much as you can. And then let the 2nd Squadron embeds "Darkie" from beginning to end ...

Leonid Bykov died tragically in a car accident on the highway "Kyiv-Minsk" April 11, 1979 near the village Dimer. He returned to his "Volga" dacha near Kiev. Ahead of him was moving tractor-cultivators, and Bykov decided to drive around. However, when overtaking collided with an oncoming truck. The blow fell in the right front door. Seat belt conveyed dynamic force on the body and in fact did not leave by a single internal organ (however, if the Bulls was not fastened, then, as shown expertise, crashed on to the steering wheel and dashboard) [5]. At the time of the death of Bykov it was only 50 years old. Leonid Bykov was buried on Baykovoye cemetery in Kiev (section №33 on the border with plot №49).

The investigation was conducted very carefully. Consultations with experts, racing drivers, experiments on the racetrack, "The Seagull." It turned out that the young driver of an oncoming truck that was about to in prison, is innocent. Bykov was sober, but made a mistake, probably due to fatigue. And no heart attack he was not, or he would let the brake pedal. Leonid Fedorovich to the latter tried to prevent a collision.

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