KIEV, November 2. / TASS /. Soviet and Ukrainian actor Alexander Nemchenko, best known for his role in the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle,” died at the age of 66 in Ukraine. This was announced on Monday by the Vinnitsa Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Nikolai Sadovsky.
“Yesterday, nature was crying all day, quietly and sadly. Alexander Nemchenko departed into eternity. The conductor of the singing squadron took another pet into his arms,” says the theater’s page in Facebook… The actor, according to colleagues, lived a rich creative life. “Honored Artist of Ukraine. Actor of theater and cinema. He created a theater studio at the Teacher’s House. For many years he was engaged in folk medicine. And always with a smile,” the theater noted.
Farewell to Nemchenko will be held in Vinnitsa on Tuesday, and his ashes will be buried in his hometown of Rivne.
Alexander Nemchenko was born on November 12, 1953 in the Ukrainian city of Rivne in the family of the head of the theater orchestra Dmitry Nemchenko and the actress of the regional theater Valentina Nemchenko. Since 1963, the family lived in Vinnitsa, where both parents worked at the N. Sadovsky Regional Music and Drama Theater. Alexander Nemchenko followed in the footsteps of his parents, graduating in 1975 from the Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Art named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary. His most famous film role – in the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle” by Leonid Bykov – was received in his second year in 1973. In it, he played the good-natured drummer of the Second Singing Squadron.
After graduation, he worked as an actor in the Kherson Music and Drama Theater, in 1976 he served in the army, and since 1977 he worked in the Vinnitsa theater. There he played 122 roles, including the jester from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, and also starred in several short films. Nemchenko was the creator of a variety theater of miniatures, a theater studio, and collaborated with the Higher League of KVN of Ukraine. Since 1996 he has been engaged in non-traditional medicine – first in Odessa, and then returning to Vinnitsa.
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