Leonid Kuravlyov

About

Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast in the Russian far north where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally...

Known for

FuseSeries • 1962Streets of Broken LightsSeries • 1998Investigation Held by ZnaToKiSeries • 1971BrigadaSeries • 2002The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. WatsonSeries • 1980Seventeen Moments of SpringSeries • 1973ViyMovie • 1967Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His ProfessionMovie • 1973The Barber of SiberiaMovie • 1998Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of BerlinMovie • 1971MiminoMovie • 1977AfonyaMovie • 1975There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton BeachMovie • 1993Sherlock Holmes in the 20th CenturyMovie • 1987What a Mess!Movie • 1995The Turkish GambitMovie • 2005For the MatchesMovie • 1980The Meeting Place Cannot Be ChangedMovie • 1979When the Trees Were TallMovie • 1961We're from JazzMovie • 1983The Book of MastersMovie • 2009The Most Charming and AttractiveMovie • 1985Liberation - Part 5 : The Last AssaultMovie • 1971The Golden CalfMovie • 1968