Rostislav Yankovsky
Soviet and Belarusian actor (1930-2016)
Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky[1] (Belarusian: Расціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі, Russian: Ростислав Иванович Янковский;[1] 5 February 1930 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian actor. He was born in Odesa. He studied in Leninabad.[2]
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Born | Расьціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky 5 February 1930 |
Died | 26 June 2016 | (aged 86)
Relatives | Oleg Yankovsky (brother) |
Awards | People's Artist of the USSR (1978) |
He debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. Since 1957, he worked in the Minsk Drama Theatre. Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978.
Yankovsky died in Minsk on 26 June 2016 in Minsk, Belarus, aged 86.[3]