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Vasily Shukshin
Vasily Shukshin · Igor Gnevashev, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Vasily Shukshin

1929 – 1974 · aged 45

Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)

Born
25 Jul 1929 · Srostki
Died
2 Oct 1974 · Kletskaya

Life timeline

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

Showing 52 years
  1. 25 Jul 1929BornBorn in Srostki
  2. 1967AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
  3. 1967AwardVasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
  4. 1969AwardHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
  5. 1971AwardUSSR State Prize
  6. 2 Oct 1974DiedDied in Kletskaya

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 1974).

  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. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transitioned to acting by his late 20s.

Text from the Wikipedia article Vasily Shukshin, CC BY-SA 4.0

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