Vasili Vanin

Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue. He was given the award People's Artist of the USSR in 1949.

Biography Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage / Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

Filmography Tommy (1931) The Return of Maxim (1937) Lenin in October (1937) Peat-Bog Soldiers (1938) Lenin in 1918 (1939) Member of the Government (1939) Valery Chkalov (1941) Kotovsky (1942) The District Secretary (1942) – Stalin Prizes second degree (1943) The Front (1943) The Liberated Earth (1946) Light over Russia (1947) The Precious Seed (1948)

Honors and awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947) People's Artist of the USSR (1949) Three Stalin Prizes second degree (1943, 1846, 1949)