Dersu Uzala
Solomin studied at the Malyi theatre school and joined its troupe in 1957. He was acclaimed as Khlestakov in Igor Ilyinsky's production of "The Government Inspector" (1966), Tsar Feodor in "Tsar Feodor Ioannovich" (1976), Slavin in "TASS Is Authorized to Declare..." TV series (1984), Nicholas II in "Az Vosdam..." (1990), and Famusov in his own production of "Woe" "from Wit" (2000). Solomin was cast as a Russian imperial officer in many Soviet movies, including Akira Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala" (1975), which won him a Japanese decoration for the outstanding contribution to the world culture (1993).