Boris Plotnikov

Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. His film debut was as Sotnikov in The Ascent, the acclaimed final film of Russian director Larisa Shepitko. Plotnikov appeared in more than seventy feature films and television series. Biography Early life Boris Plotnikov was born on 2 April 1949, in the city of Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. His father worked as a mechanic and his mother as an engineer-technologist. A few years later, the Plotnikov family moved to Novouralsk. He graduated from school No. 57 in Novouralsk. He graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theater School (1970, the course of Yuri Zhigulsky) and the Philological Faculty of the Ural State University (1983).