MOSCOW -- Oleg Yankovsky, a prominent Russian actor well-known in all former Soviet countries, died in a Moscow clinic on May 20, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Yankovsky, 65, had cancer.
For the last 35 years he had been working at Moscow's Lenkom Theater.
Citizens in the post-Soviet space knew Yankovsky for his roles in such Soviet-era blockbusters as "Shield and Sword," "Simply A Miracle," "That Munchhausen," and "Flights in Dreams and Reality."
Yankovsky will be buried in Moscow on May 22.
Yankovsky, 65, had cancer.
For the last 35 years he had been working at Moscow's Lenkom Theater.
Citizens in the post-Soviet space knew Yankovsky for his roles in such Soviet-era blockbusters as "Shield and Sword," "Simply A Miracle," "That Munchhausen," and "Flights in Dreams and Reality."
Yankovsky will be buried in Moscow on May 22.