Ruben Simonov

Ruben Simonov
Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp
Born	Ruben Nikolayevich Simonyants (1899-04-02)2 April 1899 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	5 December 1968(1968-12-05) (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director and pedagogue
Years active	1919–1968

Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов, Armenian: Ռուբեն Նիկոլայի Սիմոնով; 2 April 1899 – 5 December 1968) was a Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).

Simonov was born in Moscow, to a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture.^[1] In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.

• Admiral Nakhimov (1946) as Osman Pasha
• The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Anastas Mikoyan
• The Golden Antelope (1954) as Raja (voice)
• The Gadfly (1955) as Cardi

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1937)
• Three Orders of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1967)
• Three Stalin Prizes (1943, 1947, 1950)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1946)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1946, 1959)
• Lenin Prize (1967)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

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