Oleg Yefremov

Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (; 1 October 1927 – 24 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a producer at the Moscow Art Theatre. He received the titles People's Artist of the USSR and Hero of Socialist Labour (1987).

In 1949, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School and became an actor and later a producer of the Central Children Theater, started teaching at School-Studio by himself.

He grew up in a large communal apartment on the Arbat Street. His father served as an accountant in the Gulag system, and the future actor spent a part of his adolescence in the Vorkutlag camps, where he became closely acquainted with the criminal world. 1974 — for the performance Steelworkers by Gennady Bokarev People's Artist of the USSR (1976) Union TV Festival Jury Prize in Leningrad (Days of the Surgeon Mishkin, 1976) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (30 September 1977) Order of Lenin (1987) Order of Friendship of Peoples (1993) Hero of Socialist Labour (1987) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1997) Crystal Turandot Award (1997) c for valiant service to the theatre State Prize of the Russian Federation, twice 1997 to maintain and develop the traditions of Russian psychological theatre in the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 2003 (posthumous) Luspekayev Prize for Lady Luck at the film festival Kinoshock in Anapa (1997) Golden Aries Award (1997) for his contribution to cinema Special Jury Prize of the National Theatre Award Golden Mask (1998) for the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Moscow Mayor's Award for a unique contribution to culture (1999)