Leonid Kuravlyov

Personal Info

Birthday

October 8, 1936

Day of Death

2022-01-30

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Also Known As

Leonid Kuravlev

Леонид Куравлёв

Леонид Куравлев

Куравлёв Леонид Вячеславович

L. Kuravlev

L. Kuravlyov

L.Kuravlyov

Куравлев Леонид Вячеславович

Leonid Kouravliov

Leonid Viatcheslavovitch Kouravliov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Biography

Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.

Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant.