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A memorial plaque was erected in the city to Alexander Shirvindt, an actor of theater, cinema, voice-over and dubbing, theater director, screenwriter, teacher, television presenter, People's Artist of the RSFSR, full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," and artistic director and president of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater.
It appeared on December 3 on the façade of building 1/15, block A on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. Alexander Shirvindt lived here for almost 58 years—from 1966 to 2024.
The memorial plaque was crafted in bronze by the sculpting team of Andrey and Pavel Nalich. It depicts Alexander Shirvindt and bears an inscription. The installation was initiated by the Moscow Academic Satire Theater.
The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of federal and Moscow authorities, public organizations, cultural institutions, the media, colleagues, relatives and friends of Alexander Shirvindt, Muscovites and guests of the capital.
Actor, director, professor and theater director
Alexander Shirvindt was born in Moscow in 1934. In 1956, he graduated with honors from the B.V. Shchukin Higher Theatre School and joined the troupe of the Film Actors' Studio Theatre. That same year, he taught at the B.V. Shchukin Higher Theatre School. In 1957, the actor was accepted into the troupe of the Lenin Komsomol Theatre and joined the staff of the Mosfilm studio. In 1967, he transferred to the Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya.
In 1970, Shirvindt began working at the Moscow Academic Satire Theater, landing the role of Count Almaviva in Pierre Beaumarchais's "The Marriage of Figaro, or The Crazy Day." That same year, he collaborated with Mark Zakharov on the production of "Wake Up and Sing!" based on Hungarian playwright Miklós Gyárfás's "Loophole."
In 1973, the actor and Andrei Mironov co-directed the play "Little Comedies of the Big House," based on the play of the same name by Grigory Gorin and Arkady Arkanov. In 1978, he staged the play "The Minor," based on the work by Denis Fonvizin.
Alexander Shirvindt has been a professor since 1995. His students include Leonid Yarmolnik, Amalia Mordvinova, Alexander Oleshko, Elena Podkaminskaya, and Maria Golubkina.
In 2000, Alexander Shirvindt replaced Valentin Pluchek as artistic director of the Moscow Academic Satire Theatre, and in 2021, he became the theatre's president.
Alexander Shirvindt died on March 15, 2024, at the age of 89.
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