Stanislav Chekan

Stanislav Yulianovich Chekan (; 2 June 1922 – 11 August 1994) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, known primarily for his blue-collar manly appearance, and character actor roles of a stereotypical "big guy".

Biography Stanislav Chekan was born in Rostov-on-Don on 2 June 1922. When he was 15 years old, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. Stanislav was sent to a labor colony, where he first began to participate in amateur activities. Then he was sent to a vocational school, but on the way he turned to Rostov, where he entered another school, a theater school.

From 1938 to 1941, he studied at the studio of Yuri Zavadsky in the Theater School of Rostov-on-Don.

Chekan was a textured and colourful character artist. As a rule, his screen characters are real working men. Soviet and Russian viewers know him for the role of Mikhail Ivanovich, the police captain, in Leonid Gaidai's legendary comedy The Diamond Arm.

Chekan died in Moscow on 11 August 1994 after a long illness. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovo Cemetery. Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945) Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955) Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1965) Order of the Badge of Honour (1974) Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975) Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class (1989) Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1989)