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Leonid Gaidai
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Leonid Gaidai

1923 – 1993 · aged 70

Soviet film director (1923-1993)

Born
30 Jan 1923 · Svobodny
Died
19 Nov 1993 · Moscow

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 81 years
  1. 30 Jan 1923BornBorn in Svobodny
  2. 1941 – 1945WarEastern Front
  3. 1942AwardMedal "For Battle Merit"
  4. 1969AwardHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
  5. 1970AwardJubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
  6. 1970AwardVasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
  7. 1974AwardPeople's Artist of the RSFSR
  8. 1985AwardOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st class
  9. 1989AwardPeople's Artist of the USSR
  10. 19 Nov 1993DiedDied in Moscow

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1923 – 1993).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Leonid Iovich Gaidai (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter, and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".

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