Vladimir Etush (1922-2019) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, educator, artistic director of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (2003-2019), People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
He was born on May 6, 1922, in Moscow. In 1940, he entered the Boris Shchukin Higher Theatre School; on the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered to the front to serve in a rifle regiment; he was in the action near Rostov-on-Don, in Kabarda and Ossetia mountains, was at war near Malgobek city and participated in liberation of Don land and Ukraine. In 1944, he returned to the fourth year of the theatre school, and in 1945 finished the acting faculty and was taken into the company of the Vakhtangov Theater, where he soon became one of the leading actors.
In 1945, he began teaching as an assistant educator for the mastery of the actor at the Boris Shchukin Higher Theatre School, where he became a professor in 1976. In 1987, Etush took up a position of the rector, and in 2003, that of the artistic director of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
Vladimir Etush started acting in films in 1953. He was a master of character and comedy roles. Filmgoers remember well his roles in L. Gaidai's comedies Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, or New Adventures of Shurik (1966), The Twelve Chairs (1971), Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973). Etush’s acting style manifested itself vividly in tale films An Old, Old Tale (1968), The Shadow (1971), How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (1977), as well as in TV film The Adventures of Buratino (1975).
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vladimir Etush and the image of The Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
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Format of the stamp |
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| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + security system |
Comb 12¼:12 |
42 × 30 mm |
140 thousand stamps |