{{Infobox person | image = Pyotr Shcherbakov.jpg | caption = | imagesize = | name = Pyotr Shcherbakov | birth_name = Pyotr Ivanovich Shcherbakov | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|7|21|df=y}} | birth_place =Pozdnyakovo village, Kaluga Governorate, RSFSR, USSR | death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|3|16|1929|7|21|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1953–1992 | alma_mater = GITIS | citizenship = | spouse = | children = }} '''Pyotr Ivanovich Shcherbakov''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Ива́нович Щербако́в}}; 21 July 1929 – March 16, 1992) was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Member of the CPSU since 1955.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web |title=Щербаков Петр - Биография - Актеры советского и российского кино |url=http://rusactors.ru/sch/scherbakov_p/index.shtml |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=rusactors.ru}}</ref>
== Biography == Born July 21, 1929, in the village of Pozdnyakovo (now Kaluga Oblast). After World War II, the family moved to Moscow.
In Theatre Institute Pyotr Shcherbakov was quite by accident. Since that year in GITIS was set only at the Directing Department, Pyotr took directly to the second year of the institute,<ref name="ReferenceB"/> which he graduated in 1955. At the same time he had while studying to pass exams in the subjects of the first course.
Pyotr served in the Theatre Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1953–1956), Sovremennik Theatre (1958–1985), Moscow Art Theatre (1985–1991).<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |title=Говорит Москва. Петр Иванович ЩЕРБАКОВ |url=https://www.ruthenia.ru/moskva/encycl/tsh/scherbakov.htm |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=www.ruthenia.ru}}</ref>
He made his debut in cinema in 1956. Actor glorified image Slavka Ufimtsev in the film by Yuri Yegorov ''Volunteers'' (1958).
==Death== He died March 16, 1992. He was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Могилы знаменитостей. Московский некрополь. Щербаков Пётр Иванович (1929-1992) |url=https://m-necropol.narod.ru/sherbakov.html |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=m-necropol.narod.ru}}</ref>
== Selected filmography== {{Div col}} * ''Pages of the Past'' (1957) as Aleksey Koren * ''Volunteers'' (1958) as Ufimtsev * ''They Conquer the Skies'' (1963) as Pyotr * ''I Am Twenty'' (1965) as Chernousov * ''Thirty Three'' (1965) as Viiktor Viktorovich * ''Chronicles of a Dive Bomber'' (1968) as Chief of Staff of the Regiment * ''Liberation I: The Fire Bulge'' (1970) as General Telegin * ''Liberation II: Breakthrough'' (1970) as General Telegin * ''Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow'' (1970) as General Telegin * ''Big School-Break'' (1972, TV Mini-Series) as guest * ''The Days of the Turbins'' (1976, TV Movie) as Studzinsky * ''Office Romance'' (1977) as Pyotr Ivanovich Bublikov * ''Investigation Held by ZnaToKi: Till the third shot'' (1978, TV Series) as Bondar * ''The Garage'' (1980) as Pyotr Petrovich * ''The Old New Year'' (1981) as Poluorlov's friend, a bayan-player * ''Tears Were Falling'' (1983) as Professor Sklyansky * ''We Are from Jazz'' (1983) as Ivan Ivanovich Bavurin * ''Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov'' (1983, TV Movie) as Abramotkin * ''And Life, and Tears, and Love'' (1984) as Fedot Fedotovich * ''Winter Evening in Gagra'' (1985) as Alexander Alexandrovich, administrator * ''Zerograd'' (1988) as head of city party council * ''Frenzied Bus'' (1990) as pilot {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0790208}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shcherbakov, Pyotr}} Category:1929 births Category:1992 deaths Category:Soviet male actors Category:Russian male actors Category:People from Kaluga Governorate Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR Category:Honored Artists of the RSFSR Category:Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni Category:Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members