Nikolai Slichenko

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| name = Nikolai Slichenko

| native_name = {{lang|ru|Николай Сличенко}}

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| birthname = Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1934|12|27}}

| birth_place = Belgorod, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2021|07|02|1934|12|27}}

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| occupation = Actor, singer, theatre director

| years_active = 1951–2021

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| title = People's Artist of the USSR {{small|(1981)}}

| awards = {{plainlist |

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" {{small|(Russia,2nd,3rd,4th class)}}
Order of Honour {{small|(Russia)}}
Order of Friendship {{small|(Russia)}}
Order of Friendship of Peoples {{small|(USSR)}}
USSR State Prize {{small|(1987)}}

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Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko ({{langx|ru|link=no|Никола́й Алексе́евич Сличе́нко}}; 27 December 1934 — 2 July 2021[https://ria.ru/20210702/slichenko-1739589316.html Умер народный артист СССР и худрук театра "Ромэн" Николай Сличенко] {{in lang|ru}}) was a Soviet and Russian singer,{{cite book|title=Music in the USSR|page=22|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQFMAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=VAAP-INFORM}} actor and chief director of the Romen Theatre in Moscow. He was the only Romani person to be awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR (1981).{{cite web |url=https://comments.ua/life/239176-desyatka-znamenitih-tsigan.html |title=Article |website=comments.ua|date=16 March 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/rges/article/rg3/rg3-1121.htm?text=%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720131758/http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/rges/article/rg3/rg3-1121.htm?text=%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-20|title=Николай Сличенко в Российском гуманитарном энциклопедическом словаре}}

Biography

Nikolai was born in Belgorod area, Russia. Part of his childhood passed during World War II. During the war, Nikolai lost many relatives. In particular, when he was a boy, his father was shot before his eyes in 1942. After the war, the Slichenko family settled at a Romani collective farm in Voronezh Oblast. That was the time when Nikolai heard about a theater in Moscow and had dreamt of performing on its stage.

In 1951, Nikolai was accepted into the Romen Theatre.[https://www.rbc.ru/society/02/07/2021/60def5b19a79473a85df676d Умер народный артист СССР Николай Сличенко] The gifted boy drew the attention of the leading theater masters. Certainly, they did not make it easy for him: he began like most, as an auxiliary staff actor.

Nikolai was first entrusted with a leading role in 1952, when he was 18 years old. This was at the time when the theater left to Zagorsk (present-day Sergiyev Posad) with the play Four Fiancées by Ivan Khrustalev. Nikolai played the role of Leksa, as a substitute for the actor Sergey Fyodorovich Shishkov (of the Shishkov gypsy dynasty) who had become ill. He then played the role of Leksa for many years, and later, as he grew older, played the role of Badi in this play as well.

After the play Slichenko received attention as a capable actor. The theater began to engage him in the current repertoire plays. In all, at the time he played more than 60 roles in his native theater, and also took part in a number of popular films, including Under the Rain and the Sun, My Island Is Blue, Wedding in Malinovka and others.

In 1977, Nikolai Slichenko became the chief director of the Romen Theatre. For this, he completed the Higher Courses for Directors at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in 1972, under the management of the People's Artist of the USSR Andrey Goncharov.

On 4 December 1998, a star with Nikolai Slichenko's name was placed at the Star Square in Moscow.

Awards and honors

;Orders

File:Orden for Service II.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class (2020)
File:Orden for Service III.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd class (2004)Указ Президента РФ от 27 декабря 2004 г. № 1606
File:Orden for Service IV.png Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class (1994)
File:Orden of Honour.png Order of Honour (2009)
File:Orden of Friendship.png Order of Friendship (2014)
File:Order friendship of peoples rib.png Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984)

;Titles

;Awards

USSR State Prize (1987)
Russian Federation Government Prize in the field of culture (2013)

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0805797}}
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{{in lang|ru}} {{official website|http://www.slichenko.ru/}}
{{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070923014845/http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/slichenko_na.htm Biography of Nikolai Slichenko]
{{Discogs artist|Николай Сличенко}}

Category:1934 births

Category:2021 deaths

Category:20th-century Russian male actors

Category:People from Belgorod Oblast

Category:Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni

Category:Honored Artists of the RSFSR

Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR

Category:People's Artists of the USSR

Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class

Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class

Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples