Stanislav Chekan

Stanislav Yulianovich Chekan (; 2 June 1922, Rostov-on-Don — 11 August 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, known primarily for his blue-collar manly appearance, and character actor roles of a stereotypical "big guy." Biography Stanislav Chekan was born in Rostov-on-Don on 2 June 1922. When he was 15 years old, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. Stanislav was sent to a labor colony, where he first began to participate in amateur activities. Then he was sent to a vocational school, but on the way he turned to Rostov, where he entered another school, a theater school. From 1938 to 1941 he studied at the studio of Yuri Zavadsky in the Theater School of Rostov-on-Don. Member of the Great Patriotic War, fought near Novorossiysk, after a serious injury — the actor of the front-line theater.