{{Short description|Soviet and Russian actor (1967-2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Family name hatnote|Gennadievich|Nazarov|lang=East Slavic}} {{Infobox person | name = Gennady Nazarov | image = | birth_name = Gennady Gennadievich Nazarov | birth_date = {{birth date|1967|3|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|10|26|1967|3|3|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | death_cause = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1994–2025 | spouse = Natalya Nazarova<ref name="ПК">[http://www.1tv.ru/videoarchive/62517 1-й канал. Пока все дома. Наталья Назарова и Геннадий Назаров (видео)]</ref> }}
'''Gennady Gennadievich Nazarov''' ({{langx|ru|Геннадий Геннадьевич Назаров}}; 3 March 1967 – 26 October 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-27 |title=Тяжёлая болезнь невероятно состарила 55-летнего актера Геннадия Назарова|url=https://www.eg.ru/showbusiness/2673292-tyajelaya-bolezn-neveroyatno-sostarila-55-letnego-aktera-gennadiya-nazarova/ |access-date=2025-10-27|website=Express Gazeta|language=ru}}</ref>
==Life and career== Nazarov graduated from the faculty of the Moscow theatrical fake artistic and technical school. Sovremennik Theatre worked as a graphic designer in the theater.<ref>[http://www.eg.ru/daily/cadr/4686/ Геннадий Назаров: Карьеру я начал бутафором]</ref> He graduated from the acting department GITIS led by Mark Zakharov.<ref>[http://www.lenkom-bilet.su/actor-archive/gennadiy-nazarov/ Театр Ленком. Легенды. Геннадий Назаров]</ref> He played a large number of roles in theater.
He debuted in 1994 in the role of Ivan Chonkin in the film ''Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin''.<ref>[http://www.rusactors.ru/n/nazarov_g/ Актёры советского и российского кино. Геннадий Назаров]</ref>
A large number of the roles were played by Gennady Nazarov on television.
Nazarov suffered from a serious kidney disease.<ref name="ПК">[http://www.1tv.ru/videoarchive/62517 1-й канал. Пока все дома. Наталья Назарова и Геннадий Назаров (видео)]</ref><ref>[http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/nazarov_gennady/interview.html Геннадий Назаров: Я благодарен врачам]</ref> He died on 26 October 2025, at the age of 58.<ref>[https://ria.ru/20251026/nazarov-2050740581.html Умер актёр Геннадий Назаров] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> His wife film director Natalya had died of cancer six months before his death.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-26 |title=Умер актёр и театральный педагог Геннадий Назаров |url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/26/10/2025/68fe33d79a7947bd797dd2d4 |access-date=2025-10-26 |website=РБК |language=ru}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin'' (1994) as Ivan Chonkin * ''Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs'' (1994) as Seryozha * ''Thief'' (1995) as Oleg, lawyer * ''What a Wonderful Game'' (1995) as Kolya Rybkin * ''Heads and Tails'' (1995) as Vadik * ''Barkhanov and His Bodyguard'' (1996) as Lyonya *''From Hell to Hell'' (1997) as Andrzej Sikorski * ''Cops and Robbers'' (1997) as taxi driver *''Composition for Victory Day'' (1998) as Vova * ''72 Meters'' (2007) as miner *''Gagarin's Grandson'' (2007) as Fyodor Vnukov, lonely painter * ''Red Fountains'' (2011) as dad
==Awards and nominations== * Czech Lions (1995): Best Actor (''Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin'') — nomination * Nika Awards (1996): Best Actor (''What a Wonderful Game'') — nomination
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0623376|Gennady Nazarov}}
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