Actor Leonid Kuravlev. File photoMOSCOW, 30 Jan. People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Kuravlev died at the age of 86, his son Vasily Kuravlev told RIA Novosti. Earlier it became known that the actor was in clinical hospital No. 40 in Kommunarka with a diagnosis of pneumonia, the presence of COVID-19 The doctors didn't confirm. On Wednesday, he was transferred to another medical institution for rehabilitation.Leonid Kuravlev on the set of the film «Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession» film «Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession» Kuravlev was born on October 8, 1936 in Moscow in a working-class family. In 1955 he became a student of the acting department of VGIK, where he studied at the course of Boris Bibikov. In the first year, he studied poorly and was almost expelled for incompetence, but in the last he was among the best and made his film debut. In 1960, Kuravlev played the sailor Kamushkin in Mikhail Schweitzer's historical-revolutionary film Midshipman Panin. The first film success came to the actor four years later, after the main role in Shukshin's film «Such a guy lives.» One of Kuravlev's most famous characters is the plumber Athanasius Borshchov in Athos (1975) by George Danelia. The picture became the leader of the Soviet rental of that year: 62 million viewers watched it. He is also known for his roles in such films as Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, Viy, The Most Charming and Attractive, The Golden Calf «. Kuravlev continued to act in films until 2015. A frame from the feature film «Shine, shine, my star» film «Shine, shine, my star»
