Boris Sichkin

Boris Mikhailovich Sichkin (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Сі́чкін; Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Си́чкин; 1922–2002) was a Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, composer and entertainer.

[1] Sichkin born in Kyiv in the family of a Jewish shoemaker, who died when he was 4 years old.

In 1973, in Tambov, he was arrested on suspicion of theft of state property in a large scale.

He died on March 21, 2002, of a heart attack in his apartment in New York City.

Soon, at the request of his wife, Sichkin's remains were recovered from the grave and cremated, and the urn with the ashes moved to Moscow.