Nikolay Dupak

Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (Russian: Николай Лукьянович Дупак; 5 October 1921 – 26 March 2023) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theatre director, the head of theatres.

Born on 5 October 1921 in USSR in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk Oblast to a large family.

[1] In the spring of 1941, Dupak, now a young student of the Rostov Theater School, was approved for the role of Andrei in the film Taras Bulba directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, however, this picture was not filmed.

Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acting in a number of films while there.

[1] He persuaded the artist David Borovsky, who worked in Kiev, to move to Moscow.