Nikolai Nikolaevich Rybnikov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ры́бников; 1930–1990) was a Soviet actor. He was awarded the honorary title People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).Nikolai Nikolaevich Rybnikov was born on 13 December 1930 in Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Oblast. His father Nikolai Nikolayevich, was a factory fitter and his mother, Klavdiya Aleksandrovna, a housewife. He also had a brother, Vyacheslav.With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Rybnikov the elder went to the front, and the mother took her sons and moved to Stalingrad to her sister, believing that it would be safe there. But from the front they received news of the death of his father. Soon after receiving the tragic news, Klavdiya Aleksandrovna also died.Nikolai Rybnikov grew up in Stalingrad and graduated from the local railway school. Afterwards, he studied at the Stalingrad Medical Institute for two years, but dropped out since he decided that the profession was not for him.In 1948, Nikolai went to Moscow to study as an actor and entered VGIK (Sergei Gerasimov's and Tamara Makarova's course), he graduated in 1953. He was an actor of the auxiliary staff of the Stalingrad Drama Theater.Since 1953, the actor was employed at the National Film Actors' Theatre.

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