Nikolai Grinko

Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko (Russian Николай Григорьевич Гринько, Ukrainian Микола Григорович Гринько / Mykola Hryhorowytsch Hrynko; May 22nd, 1920 in Kherson, Soviet Union, now Ukraine, † April 10, 1989 in Kiev ) was a Soviet actor of Ukrainian descent.

From 1946 to 1955 Grinko was engaged in Zaporozhye on Dramatic Theatre. He had in 1956 in a film by Viktor Ivchenko his film debut. In the 1960s, he worked on several projects together with the directors Alexander and Vladimir Naumov Alow. Grinko became famous worldwide as " Anton Chekhov " in Sergei Jutkewitschs subject for a short story (1970 ) as a partner Marina Vlady. Andrei Tarkovsky dedicated Nikolai Grinko for his films Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker. In the popular children's film The electronic doppelganger ( Adventures of electronics; 1979) he played the Professor Gromov. One of his last major roles he had in the international large-scale production Tehran 43

He received the award " People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR ".