Semyon Lvovich Ferdman PAR, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada (Russian: Семён Львович Фердман, Семён Фарада, December 31, 1933, Nikolskoye village of Moscow Oblast, USSR – August 20, 2009, in Moscow)[1] was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

There, while playing the part of a long-haired anarchist on stage, he was the only Baltic Fleet sailor allowed to wear long hair.

[5] The navy provided Ferdman with recommendations to Moscow theatre directors, but he obeyed his mother's will and completed his courses at Bauman University, graduating in 1962.

Farada played in more than 70 films, notably with directors Mark Zakharov, Eldar Ryazanov and Aleksey German.

[5] A stroke in June 2000 after the funeral of his friend, playwright Grigory Gorin,[4] forced Farada to retire from acting.