At that point he decided not to continue the military career and entered the director's faculty at VGIK.
[5] All songs turned into instant hits, they were released by the Melodiya record label on the extended play and basically started Vysotsky's musical career.
[9] Shot in Crimea, it featured an action-packed plot about a Soviet cargo ship seized by modern-day pirates.
It was based on real-life events that took place during the 1950-1970s when Taiwanese pirates attacked passing ships, including the Soviet ones.
After 1991 he left the industry and returned only in 2002 to direct the Russian detective mini-series The Secret Sign for the TNT channel.
[18] He was buried at the Mitinskoe Cemetery in Moscow near his wife, an artist Zinaida Nikolaevna Durova (1937–2003).