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Ruben Simonov
Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp
Born	Ruben Nikolayevich Simonyants (1899-04-02)2 April 1899 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	5 December 1968(1968-12-05) (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director and pedagogue
Years active	1919–1968

Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов, Armenian: Ռուբեն Նիկոլայի Սիմոնով; 2 April 1899 – 5 December 1968) was a Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).

Biography

Simonov was born in Moscow, to a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture. In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.

Selected filmography

• Admiral Nakhimov (1946) as Osman Pasha
• The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Anastas Mikoyan
• The Golden Antelope (1954) as Raja (voice)
• The Gadfly (1955) as Cardi

Awards and honors

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1937)
• Three Orders of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1967)
• Three Stalin Prizes (1943, 1947, 1950)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1946)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1946, 1959)
• Lenin Prize (1967)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

References

1. Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan, trans. Nicholas Kournokoff and Vladimir Bobrov. New York, Sphinx Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-943071-00-3.

External links

• Hollywood Upclose
• Симонов Рубен Николаевич (Simonov, Ruben Nikolayevich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
• Simonovs bio (in Russian)

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