The People’s Artist of Russia died at a ceremony

At the age of 79, People’s Artist of Russia, actor of the Nizhny Novgorod Theater for Young Spectators Leonid Remnev died suddenly. About this Youth Theater reports on your page on social networks.

He worked in the Gorky and then in the Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theater from 1972, and spent 52 years of his life on the stage.

“During the play “Vassa” he fell ill, the ambulance that arrived at the theater did not have time to save him,” – to be specified in account Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the Union of Theater Workers.

Leonid Remnev was born in 1946 in the Ivanovo region. He graduated from the Gorky Theater School (Nizhny Novgorod) in 1972, and then from the Faculty of History of Nizhny Novgorod State University. NI Lobachevsky. From 1978 to 2003 he was a teacher at the Gorky/Nizhny Novgorod Theater School. During his stage career he played more than 100 roles in plays of Russian and foreign classical repertoire, as well as contemporary authors.

“The artist Leonid Yakovlevich Remnev has always been characterized by intelligence, nobility, explosive inner temperament and emotionality and desire. The theater mourns and offers condolences to the family and friends of Leonid Yakovlevich,” – said the theater in a statement.

The artist has been nominated for the Golden Mask national award, the speaker of the Pushkin Award and the Sobolshchikov-Samarin Award.