After finishing his secondary education, he worked at that plant for some time as a turner, but the craving for art was stronger.

A short time later Loktev, having successfully passed the exams, was admitted to the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts.

Aleksei played in that picture a Siberian boy named Volodya Ermakov, who, while on a business trip in Moscow, brought the manuscript of his novel.

[2] After that Loktev starred in the military movie First Snow, family drama Our House, military-adventure film Tunnel (USSR — Bulgaria).

All movies had different genre and level of quality, however, none of them brought actor the success like the Walking the Streets of Moscow did.

In those years, tickets for performances in the theater named after Pushkin was given to the load, but posing with Aleksei Loktev halls were full.

In 1972, the elbows behind Ravenskikh left Moscow theater named after Pushkin and moved to the Little Theatre.

Great success with viewers had his musical and poetic performance Visions on the Hill (the poet Nikolai Rubtsov), staged at the Alexandrinsky Theatre.

One of his last works the play, The Last Love Dostoevsky, which is based on Fyodor diaries, as well as excerpts from the writer of several novels.

Performance (in which Aleksei Vasil'evich starred) a few years with success went on the small stage of the Mayakovsky Theatre.

His daughter Alexandra is married to a rock musician Konstantin Kinchev from the Alisa band .

The band dedicated the song What Then, from the album Pulse Guardian Door Labyrinth to Loktev.