{{Short description|Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor}} {{family name hatnote|Petrovich |Zaychenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox person | native_name = Пётр Зайченко | native_name_lang = ru | image = Pyotr Zaychenko.jpeg | caption = | birth_name = Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1943|4|1}} | birth_place = Kaysatskoye, Stalingrad Oblast, RSFSR, USSR | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|03|21|1943|04|01|df=y}} | death_place = Volgograd, Russia<ref>[https://v1.ru/text/culture/66026140 «Все говорят — актёр, а для меня он дедушка»: Пётр Зайченко очень хотел вернуться домой из больницы] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1971–2019 | spouse = | partner = | parents = | relatives = | education = | party = | alma mater = | awards = }} '''Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Петрович Зайченко}}; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019)<ref>[https://volg.mk.ru/culture/2019/03/21/skonchalsya-volgogradskiy-artist-petr-zaychenko.html Скончался волгоградский артист Пётр Зайченко] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.<ref name="aif">[http://www.vlg.aif.ru/culture/art/69837 Пётр Зайченко: «Волгоград – трудно-театральный город»] {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
==Career== Fame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in Vadim Abdrashitov's ''Planet Parade'' (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: ''Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game'' and ''Armavir''.
In 1990, Zaychenko played Ivan Shlykov in Pavel Lungin's ''Taxi Blues''.
He was director of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.<ref name="rg">[https://rg.ru/2011/03/10/zaichenko-poln.html Пётр Зайченко сыграл старика ценой собственного здоровья] {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
== Selected filmography== *''Planet Parade'' (1984) as Ivan Pukhov *''Attempted Electrification'' (1985) as Shcherbakov *''Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game'' (1987) as druzhinnik *''Taxi Blues'' (1990) as Shlykov<ref>[http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1990/awardCompetition.html Festival de Cannes, Awards 1990]</ref> *''The Tale of the Outstanding Moon'' (1990) as Vasily Vasilievich *''Armavir'' (1991) as Arthur *''Lost in Siberia'' (1991) as investigator *''Stalin's Testament'' (1993) as general, presidential candidate *''Krapachuk'' (1993) as Chelorek *''Concerto for Fats'' (1995) as Pronin *''Crusader'' (1995) as drug trafficker Tosha *''A Moslem'' (1995) as Pavel Petrovich *''The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone'' (1998) as Igor, businessman *''Wolfhound'' (2006) as Fitela *''Free Floating'' (2006) as Elderly man from brigade *''Last Slaughter'' (2007) as Anatoly *''Taras Bulba'' (2008) as Metelitsa *''I Am'' (2009) as Chernobyl survivor *''Home'' (2011) as Alexey Shamanov *''Siberia, Monamour'' (2011) as grandfather Ivan<ref name="rg"/> *''Leningrad 46'' (2014) as the old man near the temple *''Sophia'' (2016) as Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia
== Awards == * Medal "For Labour Valour" (1986) * Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1998)<ref name="80-1998">[http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=067085 Награждён указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226052952/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=067085 |date=2010-12-26 }}</ref> * Order of Friendship (2014)<ref name="У">[http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201412260005?index=15&rangeSize=1&filtercode=daily&back=False Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 декабря 2014 года № 810 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0952143|name= Pyotr Zaychenko}} * [http://www.rusactors.ru/z/zaychenko/index.shtml Пётр Зайченко] at the rusactors.ru * [https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/116084/ Pyotr Zaychenko] on KinoPoisk
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zaychenko, Pyotr}} Category:1943 births Category:2019 deaths Category:People from Volgograd Oblast Category:Russian male actors Category:Soviet male actors Category:Merited Artists of the Russian Federation