Valery Ryzhakov

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| birth_name = Valery Nikolayevich Ryzhakov

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|12|23}}

| birth_place = Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|12|31|1945|12|23}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| occupation = actor

| yearsactive = 1968–1992

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Valery Nikolayevich Ryzhakov ({{langx|ru|Вале́рий Никола́евич Рыжако́в}}; 23 December 1945, Moscow – 31 December 2015, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984), winner of the USSR State Prize (1980).

Biography

In 1967 Ryzhakov he graduated from the VGIK (Vladimir Belokurov course). From 1968 to 1970, he served as an actor troupe Russian Army Theatre. From 1970 to 1992, actor Gorky Film Studio. He became widely known for his role as Nikolai Petrovich from the cult of the military action movie by director Yaropolk Lapshin {{Interlanguage link multi|Before Dawn (1989)|ru|3=Перед рассветом (фильм, 1989)}}.[http://www.radonezh.ru/analytic/9235.html Валерий Рыжаков: «Настоящая жизнь может быть только в Боге»]

In the early 1990s he has left an acting career and became an entrepreneur, successfully engaged in publishing. But financial failure and betrayal associates forced him to stop work.[http://fb.ru/article/111699/uspeshnyiy-artist-predprinimatel-i-ego-neobyichnaya-biografiya-valeriy-ryijakov-put-k-bogu Успешный артист, предприниматель и его необычная биография. Валерий Рыжаков – путь к Богу] Went to religion. Together with his wife he served in the Church of the Trinity in the Trinity-Golenishchevo.

Valery Ryzhakov died December 31, 2015, in Moscow. He was buried at the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery.[http://www.ruskino.ru/art/1165 Валерий Рыжаков на сайте «Рускино.ру»]