Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue.

[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1949).

[2] Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee.

Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage[3]/ Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

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