Viktor Korshunov

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Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov{{efn|name=spelling|{{langx|ru|Виктор Иванович Коршунов|{{transliteration|ru|Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov}}}}}} (24 November 1929{{snd}}17 April 2015) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).[http://betaschool.theatre.ru/people/alumni/1950/ Школа-студия МХАТ. Персоналии. Выпускники: 1950—1959.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419030729/http://betaschool.theatre.ru/people/alumni/1950/}}

Biography

He was born in Moscow on Sukharevskaya Street.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1959.

He died in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Selected filmography

Early Joys (1956) – Kirill Izvekov
An Unusual Summer (1957) – Kirill Izvekov
The Magpie (1958) – Stepan
On Thin Ice (1966) – Dmitry Dmitriyevich Bragin
Retribution (1967) – Chief of the military hospital
Goal! Another Goal! (1968) – Andrei Pavlovich Tamantsev, coach
Bonivur's Heart (1969) – Boris Lyubansky
Corps of General Shubnikov (1980) – Army general

Awards and honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969)[http://ruskino.ru/art/327 Виктор Коршунов: фильмография.] ruskino.ru
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
Order of the October Revolution (1974)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1980)
Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
People's Artist of the USSR (1984)[http://www.maly.ru/truppa/KorshunovV/KorshunovV.html Виктор Иванович Коршунов. Биография.] maly.ru[http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/who-is-who/article/cult/cul2-085.htm Виктор Иванович Коршунов. Биография.] slovari.yandex.ru
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1994)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2005)[http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?814847 Указ Президента Российской Федерации Путина от 11 февраля 2005 года No. 144] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418183515/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?814847 |date=April 18, 2015 }} // graph.document.kremlin.ru