Oleg Zhakov

Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (Russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 – 4 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian film actor who was born in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate. He performed in more than sixty films between 1927 up to 1988. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Winner of USSR State Prize (1971) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).

He graduated from the Leningrad College of Performing Arts (1929).

He starred in more than a hundred films.

After 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.

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