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Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov
Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp
Born	(1899-04-02)2 April 1899 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	5 December 1968(1968-12-05) (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union

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

Simonov was born on 2 April 1899, 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. In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.

Selected filmography

• Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
• The Fall of Berlin (1950)
• The Gadfly (1955)

References

1. Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan, trans. Nicholas Kournokoff and Vladimir Bobrov. New York, Sphinx Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-943071-00-3.

External links

• Hollywood Upclose
• Симонов Рубен Николаевич (Simonov, Ruben Nikolayevich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
• Simonovs bio (in Russian)

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