# Sergei Nikonenko

Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (Russian: Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.

## Selected filmography

* 1967
** The Red and the White (Звёзды и солдаты) as Cossack Officer
** The Journalist (Журналист) as Reutov
* 1969 White Explosion (Белый взрыв) as Kolya Spichkin
* 1970 Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) as Nikolai
* 1972 Liberation (Освобождение) as Sashka Golubev
* 1973 The Sky Is Beyond the Clouds (За облаками — небо)
* 1974 Birds over the City (Птицы над городом) as Vishnyakov
* 1977 An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) as Yashka, the footman
* 1978 Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) as episode
* 1979 The Theme (Тема) as Sinitsyn
* 1980 Do Not Part with Your Beloved (С любимыми не расставайтесь) as Shumilov
* 1981 Gipsy Happiness
* 1984 Planet Parade (Парад планет) as Vasily Afonin
* 1985 Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх) as Valentin Fomenko, choreographer
* 1987
** Tomorrow Was the War (Завтра была война) as school director
** Lilac Ball (Лиловый шар) as Horse-eater
* 1988 Tree Sticks! (Ёлки-палки!) as Nikolai Nikolayevich Knyazev
* 1989
** Stalingrad (Сталинград) as General Aleksandr Rodimtsev
** The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным) as Kliment Voroshilov
* 1991 Viva Gardes-Marines! (Виват, гардемарины!) as Count Piotr Grigoryevich Chernyshev
* 1992 Encore, Once More Encore! (Анкор, еще анкор!) as Ivan Kryukov
* 1994 The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) as Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev
* 1998 Composition for Victory Day (Сочинение ко Дню Победы) as Nechiporenko
* 1998 Classic (Классик) as Gorsky
* 2003 And in the Morning They Woke Up (А поутру они проснулись)
* 2005 The Fall of the Empire (Гибель империи) as Paul von Rennenkampf
* 2006 Soviet Park (Парк советского периода) as Divisional Commander Chapayev
* 2009 Attack on Leningrad (Ленинград) as captain of artillery
* 2010 What Men Talk About (О чём говорят мужчины) as captain of the ship
* 2018 The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (Крымский мост. Сделано с любовью!) as Talib Nazirovich
* 2021 The Crying Steppe as Filipp Goloshchyokin

## Honours and awards

* Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
* Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
* Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) – the incarnation of images in contemporary cinema
* People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991) – for his contribution in the development of Soviet cinema
* Prize at the Constellation / Sozvezdie film festival in Tver (1999) for the best male lead in "Classic"
* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2001) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
* Main prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the best diploma director's work - the movie "Petruhina name"
* International literary award named after Sergei Yesenin "On Russia, wave your wings ..." in the "Film, Theatre, Television" (2010)
* Order of Honour (2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
* Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017) – for great contribution to the development of national culture and art, media, and many years of fruitful activity
* Stanislavsky Award (2021) – for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of K. S. Stanislavski