Leonid Bronevoy

Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy (December 17, 1928 – December 9, 2017, born Leonid Solomonovich Bronevoy) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Though primarily a stage actor in the Lenkom Theatre, Bronevoy also made occasional appearances in films. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1987 and won the Nika Award in March 2008.

Early life Bronevoy was born in Kyiv on December 17, 1928, into the Jewish family of Solomon Iosifovich Bronevoy (who changed his family name from Faktorovich) and Bella Lvovna Bronevaya. In his childhood, he learned to play violin under the instruction of Kyiv Conservatory professor David Solomonovich Berthier.

His father, Solomon Bronevoy, came from the family of a confectioner from Odessa and had participated in the Russian Civil War. From 1920 to 1923, he worked at the State Political Directorate and completed his legal education in Kyiv, where he met Bella Bronevaya, a student in the economics department. Solomon Bronevoy worked at the Institute of National Economy until his dismissal on Trotskyism charges. In 1928, before the birth of his son, Solomon got a job in the Kyiv District economic department of the Prosecutor General's Office, with the help of his elder brother Alexander Iosifovich Bronevoy. Later, Solomon Iosifovich was sent to Ivanovo. In 1933, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and in 1934, he was appointed director of the sixth Department in the USSR's People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). In 1935, he was dismissed from the NKVD and was appointed chief of Kyiv's "culture and park recreation."

He died at his home on 9 December 2017, at age 88. People's Artist of Ukraine (2013) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"; 1st class (13 September 2013) 2nd class (1 December 2008, the award ceremony was held on December 17) for outstanding contributions to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts, many years of creative activity 3rd class (17 December 2003) for outstanding contribution to the development of national art 4th class (25 August 1997) a great contribution to the development of theatrical arts State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1996 (29 May 1997) Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976) for his role of Heinrich Müller in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring