He was winner of the Stalin Prize (1950) and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960).

At first, they performed as cook Galkin (Berezin) and bath attendant Mochalkin (Tymoshenko).

In 1950, he received the Stalin Prize for the role of soldier Kostyantyn Zaichenko in the film "The Fall of Berlin".

Berezina was offered the pseudonym Shtepsel, because at that time he played the role of an electrician.

He was married to actresses Olga Kusenko[2] and Yulia Pashkovskaya [uk].