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Vladimir Anatolyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Влади́мир Анато́льевич Фёдоров; 19 February 1939 — 18 May 2021) was a Soviet and Russian actor and physicist.


== Biography ==
In 1964, Fyodorov graduated from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and he joined the Institute of Biophysics, USSR Ministry of Health. Vladimir Fyodorov's profession was nuclear physicist and he was the author of more than 50 scientific works and inventions. Many of his works have been translated into English. He was a student of Igor Kurchatov.


== Career ==
Fyodorov first appeared on the screen at the age of 32, when film director Aleksandr Ptushko invited the young scientist to play the role of the villain Chernomor in the film Ruslan and Lyudmila. Since then, Vladimir Fyodorov portrayed many characters with dwarfism, thanks to his small stature 130 cm (4 ft 3¼ inch) . The best-known film works include the aforementioned Chernomor and the villain and oligarch Turanchoks of the sci-fi movie Per Aspera Ad Astra.
In the late 1980s, Vladimir Fyodorov came on the professional scene and played in the productions of the Vakhtangov Theater. Since 1993, he has been an actor at Nikitsky Gate.
From 1997 to 1998 Fyodorov was a co-presenter and assistant to Leonid Yarmolnik in the game show Gold Rush.


== Personal life ==
Fyodorov was married to the actress Vera for 35 years.
In recent years, he had heart disease; in 2016 he had a stroke. He died on 18 May 2021.


== Filmography ==
1972 — Ruslan and Lyudmila as Chernomor
1975 — To Fear Sadness Means to Never See Happiness as servant
1976 — The Legend of Thiele as jester
1976 — The Twelve Chairs as thief
1977 — Rings of Almanzor as pirate
1977 — Nose as dwarf
1979 — The Wild Hunt King Stach as Basil
1980 — Per Aspera Ad Astra as Turanchoks
1980 — At the Beginning of Glorious Days as dwarf
1980 — The Youth of Peter the Great as jester
1982 — The House That Swift Built as a dwarf with a gun
1983 — The Comic Lover, or Love Venture of Sir John Falstaff as Jean-Claude
1983 — Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka as dwarf
1985 — The Black Arrow as dwarf
1985 — After the Rain, on Thursday as werewolf
1986 — Kin-dza-dza! as alien in yellow pants
1987 — The End of Eternity as dwarf
1988 — New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court as dwarf
1988 — One, Two — A Grief Is Not A Trouble! as Suleymanchik
1989 — Souvenir for the Public Prosecutor as dwarf
1994 — Hagi-Tragger as killer
1997 — All What We Have Long Dreamed of as dwarf in a German prison
1999 — Two Nabokovs as Frederick Dobson
2002 — House of Fools as Karlusha
2008 — Plus One as episode
2009 — Anna Karenina as switchman
2011 — Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman as whacky
2013 — Bombila. Continued as gravedigger Giant


== References ==


== External links ==
Vladimir Fyodorov at IMDb
Vladimir Fyodorov on Facebook
История жизни Владимира Анатольевича Фёдорова