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Leonid Bronevoy was an employee for whom from 1955 to 1958?
Leonid Bronevoy Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy ( ; December 17 , 1928 – December 9 , 2017 ) was a Russian actor . Though primarily a stage actor in the Lenkom Theatre , Bronevoy also made occasional appearances in films . He was awarded a Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1987 and won the Nika Award in March 2008 . Life and career . Bronevoy was born on December 17 , 1928 in the city of Kiev in the Jewish family of Solomon Iosifovich Bronevoy ( Faktorovich ) and Bella Lvovna Bronevaya . In childhood , he learned to play violin at the 10-year musical school under the Kiev conservatory . His teacher was the famous Kiev master , professor David Solomonovich Berthier . The father of the future actor , Solomon Iosifovich Bronevoy ( whose true family name is Faktoróvich ) represented the family of an Odessian confectioner , acted in Russian Civil War , who also worked at The State Political Directorate in 1920-1923 , completed a legal education in Kiev , where he met his future wife , a student of Economy Department . Solomon Bronevoy worked at the Institute of National Economy until dismissal on charges of Trotskyism . In 1928 before the birth of his son Solomon Iosifovich got a job in Kiev District economic department of the Prosecutor Generals Office . His elder brother , Alexander Iosifovich Bronevoy , helped him with getting that job . Later , Solomon Iosifovich was sent to Ivanovo . In 1933 was awarded the Order of Red Star , and in 1934 in the rank of Major of State Security appointed the director of 6-th Department in USSRs Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ) . In 1935 he was dismissed from the NKVD and was appointed the chief of Kievs culture and recreation park . On September 13 , 1936 , he was arrested and on March 9 , 1937 he was sentenced to five years in prison ( after the extension of the term he was released in 1946 ; till 1949 in exile , released in 1954 ) . The actors mother divorced him and changed his sons patronym to Sergeyevich , but that did not help - as a family of an enemy of the people she , with her son , was sent into exile in the city of Kirov region Malmyzh . In 1941 , the family was allowed to return to Kiev , but the World War II began and they were evacuated to the city of Chimkent , Kazakh SSR , where L.S . Bronevoy studied in high school and began to work independently . However , parents of Leonid Bronevoy never lived together since . In 1950 L.S . Bronevoy graduated from the Alexander Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatrical Art Institute . After his graduation in 1950 he worked in Magnitogorsk and Orenburg drama theatres . In 1953 , Leonid took a chance and went to Moscow where he was able to immediately enter the third year of the Moscow Art Theater School ( class of A.M . Karev ) and successfully complete it in 1955 . After finishing the School-Studio , the actor left Moscow and got in Grozny Drama Theatre . Then there were the Irkutsk , and Voronezh . From 1962 to 1988 he was the leading actor of the . Since 1988 - in the Moscow Lenkom Theatre . First all-Union popularity Bronevoy got after playing the 45-year-old Muller role in the TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring . He created the image of Gestapo chief - not primitive , sadistic bonecracker as the Gestapo is often portrayed in Soviet films , but a normal person with a sense of humor , simple manners and not too scrupulous attitude to the official ideology , but an intelligent , skilled professional and a dangerous enemy . And that image got striking , memorable , provocative and even respect for sympathy . Many replicas of television Mueller became popular expressions . Another equally popular character of Bronevoy was the Doctor from the film Formula of Love . An elderly experienced man , for which there is nothing surprising in the world , and nothing that could shake his confidence in the correctness of his views on life . Many phrases Doctor pronounced with the Bronevoys intonation , became popular meme . The same applies to the role of the artists pop band Velyurov from The Pokrovsky Gate . In subsequent years the actor had played more than twenty roles in the movies . The last was the role of an old actor in Zhuravlevs film , Simple Things , for which he received the Nika Award in March 2008 . His name appeared on a petition against Russian accession of Crimea , however , he himself stated in an interview that his name was placed without his permission , and that he , in fact , supports Vladimir Putin and Russian actions in Crimea . He died in a hospital on 9 December 2017 , one week before his 89th birthday . Partial filmography . - Comrade Arseny ( 1964 ) as Gendarme colonel - Lebedev vs Lebedev ( 1965 ) as Yevgeny Viktorovich - Your Contemporary ( 1967 ) as Minister secretary - Investigation Held by ZnaToKi ( 1971—1972 , TV Series ) as Kudrjashov , restaurant director - Acting As.. . ( 1973 ) as Tugodayev - Seventeen Moments of Spring ( 1973 , TV Mini-Series ) as Heinrich Mueller - Just Several Words In Honour Of Mr . de Molière ( 1973 , TV Movie ) as Louis XIV of France - Ispolnyayushchiy obyazannosti ( 1973 ) - Did you call a doctor ? ( 1974 ) as Leonid S . Medvedev , Professor , Head of therapeutic clinic - A For the Summer ( 1974 ) as Stepan Petrovich , cook , speaking in verse - Tanya ( 1974 , TV Movie ) as Semyon Semyonovich Vasin - Pyatyorka za leto ( 1974 ) - Concerto for Two Violins ( 1975 ) as professor Leonid Medvedev - Olga Sergeyevna ( 1975 ) as Tyutyaev - Request to Speak ( 1975 ) as Petr Altukhov , former chairman - Mayakovsky Laughs or Bedbug-75 ( 1976 ) as Oleg Bayan - Proshu slova ( 1976 ) as Pyotr Vasilyevich Antukhov - Armed and Very Dangerous ( 1977 ) as Peter Dumphy - Savoy Hijacking ( 1979 ) as Jean Challot - The Very Same Munchhausen ( 1979 ) as Duke - We Arent So Old ! ( 1980 ) as Mikhail Ostashenko - Kakie nashi gody ! ( 1981 ) - Agony ( 1981 ) as - Return Of Resident ( 1982 ) as Johann Staube - Pokrovsky Gates ( 1982 , TV Movie ) as Arkady Velyurov - If to Believe Lopotukhin ( 1983 ) as Yuri Leonidovich , the headmaster / humanoid - A Month in the Country ( 1983 ) as Ignatius Ilyich Sрhpigelsky - Formula of Love ( 1984 ) as Doctor - Chicherin ( 1986 ) as Maxim Litvinov - Final of the Resident Mission ( 1986 ) as Johann Staube - Mysteriuous Inheritor ( 1987 ) as Civil law notary - Big Game ( 1988 ) as Vernier - The Physicists ( 1989 ) as Newton - Promised Heaven ( 1991 ) as Colonel Semen Yefremovich - Old Young People ( 1992 ) as Viktor Maksimovich , deputy - Italian Contract ( 1993 ) as Don Lucino - Equals to four France ( 1996 , TV Series ) as Shakhmatov - Schizophrenia ( 1997 ) as sartor - Ship of Doubles ( 1997 ) as general of FSB - Simple things ( 2007 ) as Vladimir Mikhailovich Zhuravlev - Guilty Without Fault ( 2008 ) as Mendelsson Voice in animation . - Plasticine Crow ( 1981 ) as Grandpa - Investigation Held by Kolobki ( 1986-1987 ) as Boss ( in parts 1 and 2 ) Honours and awards . - Honored Artist of the RSFSR ( 1971 ) - Peoples Artist of RSFSR ( 1979 ) - Peoples Artist of USSR ( 1987 ) - Peoples Artist of Ukraine ( 2013 ) - Order of the Red Banner of Labour ( 1982 ) - Order of Merit for the Fatherland ; - 1st class ( 13 September 2013 ) - 2nd class ( 1 December 2008 , the award ceremony was held on December 17 ) for outstanding contributions to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts , many years of creative activity - 3rd class ( 17 December 2003 ) for outstanding contribution to the development of national art - 4th class ( 25 August 1997 ) a great contribution to the development of theatrical arts - Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Art in 1996 ( 29 May 1997 ) - State Prize of the RSFSR Vasiliev brothers ( 1976 ) for his role in the television series Mueller Seventeen Moments of Spring