Alexander Lymarev — Mikhail Medvedev
Sources: still from the TV series “Soldiers”, @katyagordon
The actor had already received leading roles before filming the series. Alexander, while studying in his last year at the university, starred in the film “Hello, Capital!”, and then in the film “Honeymoon”, where Tatyana Arntgolts became his film wife.
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In 2004, Alexander was offered a job in the television series “Soldiers”. His hero is Mikhail Medvedev, a private in the army who, by the end of his service, receives the rank of sergeant. Other seasons show his life outside the barracks as a businessman. After a successful project, Lymarev was most often offered to star in war films, including “I Will Never Forget You” and “Operation Gorgon.” However, recently the actor has begun to appear less on the big screen. “The Yellow Eye of the Tiger” is one of his last works, where he got a minor role.
In his free time, Alexander plays music, takes photographs, and is interested in computer graphics. The actor is married to a girl named Maria, whom he met in school.
Igor Gasparyan (1974)
TV series “Soldiers”: actor Igor Gasparyan as Socrates Poghosyan - then and now
Another favorite character of the audience is Socrates Poghosyan, played by actor Igor Gasparyan. Despite the fact that Gasparyan’s filmography was quite extensive even before “Soldiers,” this role became the first major one in his career. After filming, he continued his activities as a supporting actor, sometimes getting serious roles.
Ivan Mokhovikov - Kuzma Sokolov
Sources: still from the series “Soldiers”, Legion-Media
Ivan began his star journey with commercials, thanks to which he was noticed and offered to play the bandit Feklyaev in the film “Citizen Chief”. But his real popularity was brought to him by the TV series “Soldiers,” where he starred for all 17 seasons.
Kuzma Sokolov is a cheerful and good-natured soldier who remains in the army after demobilization. At the same time, the actor starred in other films: “Under a Shower of Bullets”, “Trick If You Love”, “Boris Godunov”.
Ivan prefers to spend his free time with his family. Mokhovikov met his future wife, actress Olga Glushko, on the set of a television series; they are raising their son Makar together.
Olga Fadeeva - nurse Irina Pyleeva
Source: still from the series “Soldiers”, @fadeevaofaeeva
Olga began her career as a theater actress, but after filming a video with Alexander Malinin, Olga decided to try herself in cinema.
She got her first role in the film “Zorka Venera”, and she became famous after the release of “Soldiers”. Nurse Irina Pyleeva is one of the main characters of the series, who falls in love with Private Medvedev, and after finishing his service marries him. Fadeeva has a lot of films to her name, where she plays the main roles. In 2013, she played singer Valentina Tolkunova in the serial film “She Couldn’t Do It Otherwise.”
During the filming of the film “Invincible,” the actress met director Alexander Samokhvalov, who soon became her husband. The couple are raising a son, Alexei.
Alexey Maklakov - warrant officer Shmatko
Sources: still from the TV series “Soldiers”, @alexeymaklakov_official
The actor became famous thanks to Timur Bekmambetov’s films “Night Watch” and “Day Watch”, where he played the driver Semyon, and his colleagues were Konstantin Khabensky, Zhanna Friske, Alexey Chadov and other famous actors. However, popular love came to Alexey thanks to “Soldiers”.
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Oleg Nikolaevich Shmatko is a cheerful warrant officer who often finds himself in ridiculous situations, but always easily gets out of them. He is loved not only by the soldiers, but also respected by his colleagues, who still laugh at him. The audience loved the character so much that the filmmakers decided to make a separate film about him. The painting “Ensign Shmatko, or E-mine” was no less successful.
Today Maklakov is married for the fourth time to a girl who is 23 years younger than him. He met Anna Romantseva during the filming of the series, where she was a voice-over coordinator. The young wife gave birth to two daughters to the actor; he has a son and a daughter from previous marriages.
About the series
The action takes place in a certain military unit, in the city near this unit, in the apartments of the characters. The life and relationships of soldiers, sergeants, warrant officers, officers and their immediate circle are shown.
It all starts with how the city major Mishka Medvedev (Alexander Lymarev) and a simple boy from the village Kuzma Sokolov (Ivan Mokhovikov), who were previously fellow countrymen, but for a long time lost their connections in civilian life, end up in the army, each for their own reason. At first, the guys have a hard time: they are beaten and insulted by the “old men,” especially Medvedev. But they quickly adapted: Sokolov found himself a friend - warrant officer Shmatko (later the most famous character in the series), and Medvedev began an affair with nurse Irina Pyleeva. But it turns out that not only Medvedev is in love with the nurse, but also the deputy unit commander for educational work, Major Kolobkov. In the 2nd part, “Bear” and “Kolobok” “fight” with each other, Kolobkov even tries to kill Medvedev. But love wins. In addition, Medvedev was discharged due to injury six months ahead of schedule. But there are still two main characters - Sokolov and Shmatko with different, but sometimes overlapping stories.
At the end of the sixteenth season, only Lieutenant Sokolov (Ivan Mokhovikov), senior warrant officer Danilyuk (Anatoly Koshcheev), Colonel Zubov (Alexey Oshurkov), Varya Sokolova (Sofya Anufrieva) and senior warrant officer Shmatko (Alexei Maklakov), some did not participate in the filming of the main series for a while (not counting the spin-off “Ensign, or “Yo-moe””).
The series uses musical works by the groups “Utah” (“Serve the Fatherland”, “Once Upon a Time”), “The End of the Film” (“Youth in Boots”, “Theme of Love”, “Ensign Blues”, “Don’t Envy”, “Demobilization”) ", "Song of the Spirits", "Alright", "Lonely Night", "Puerto Rican"), "Leprechauns" ("Soldiers") and Django "Papagan".
The final 7 episodes of the 16th season were shown from June 8 to June 17, 2010 only on the NTK channel (Kazakhstan).
Roman Madyanov as Major Kolobkov
Sources: still from the series “Soldiers”, Legion-Media
The actor began acting in films as a child, since his father, a television editor, often took him with him to work. Roman got his first major role in Georgy Danelia’s film “Completely Lost,” which is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
In the series “Soldiers,” he played the negative character of Major Kolobkov, whom the soldiers did not like, and his colleagues tried not to have anything in common with him, since he was cruel and constantly weaved intrigues. Madyanov also starred in such popular films as “The Irony of Fate. Continuation", "Our Russia: Eggs of Destiny", "Legend No. 17" and many others.
Criticism of the television series
Despite a certain popularity, the series is subject to criticism. Thus, those who served in the army note the distance shown from the real state of affairs. For example, hazing is shown in a greatly toned down form in all parts except the first season, as well as several episodes in other seasons. In some cases, a negative attitude towards contract service is shown (in Part 4 there is even a special episode where the negative characters are three contract soldiers). Also, partly in connection with the previous one, it is said that the series was created with the aim of promoting military service. On the other hand, in 2006, the series was criticized by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. In particular, in one of the interviews he said:
...I would be careful not to say that the series shows the real life of a military unit. The series is still a comedy, and, as far as I understand, its creators did not set themselves the task of objectively and impartially depicting army reality.
To this, director Sergei Arlanov replied:
Everyone who has seen the working material of our film notes that our army turned out to be good. If we hear in the news that people in the army are shooting or hanging themselves, then our maximum is a slap on the head in the frame. This is a kind of retro look at the army. My parents remember such an army. This is not an army-prison, but a school for educating men. We have a little bit of real life in the series, we have a fairy tale with a dash of romance. We deliberately refuse things that ridicule the army, from characteristics that would belittle the military. The main task facing the artists was to make their characters as charming as possible. Some even joke that we are making a movie commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.
Alexey Oshurkov - Captain Zubov
Sources: still from the TV series “Soldiers”, @ruslanrudnik
At one time, the actor dreamed of becoming a military man, but in the end he chose a different profession. But he managed to reincarnate as Captain Zubov in “Soldiers,” who then became a colonel and commander of a military unit.
After the completion of the project, Alexey received several main roles - “Kotovsky”, “Court” - but most often he plays minor characters. It is known that the actor is married and has two children.
Version: The actor from the TV series “Soldiers” was beaten to death for molesting a girl
Film actor Andrei Maltsev was killed in Elektrogorsk near Moscow on Friday night. A passer-by came across the body of a 43-year-old man in the park.
The day before, Andrei Maltsev was relaxing at a local eatery - a “cafe” with several tables on Krzhizhanovsky Street. The actor moved to Elektrogorsk two years ago, lived nearby and sometimes visited here in the evenings. This time, as they say, he sat for a long time and drank.
“Eyewitnesses say that the actor allegedly began to pester the waitress and grabbed her hand,” says a source in the investigation. “The girl tried to laugh it off, but Maltsev did not let up. It turned out that at that moment her boyfriend was sitting at the next table...
27-year-old Alexander Moiseev is a sporty person. He attacked the actor with his fists. The man did not expect the attack, so he did not have time to defend himself.
27-year-old Alexander Moiseev is a sporty person. He attacked the actor with his fists.
After several blows to the head and face, Andrei fell to the floor and passed out for several moments. But then he managed to get up and hobbled out of the cafe. A few hundred meters later, in the alley of the local Rowan Grove public garden, Moiseev caught up with him again. Apparently, he really wanted to prove that the actor was wrong. He knocked his opponent to the asphalt and beat him with his hands and feet. He stopped only when Maltsev completely stopped resisting and fell silent.
According to doctors, Andrei Maltsev died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
As KP learned, everything that happened in the alley was caught on one of the CCTV cameras. In the morning Moiseev was detained. He has already confessed.
“It has been established that the detained man has already been convicted under the articles “Robbery” and “Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm,” said Olga Vradiy, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region. “Then he received a suspended sentence of 5.5 years in prison.
Andrey Maltsev is from Ulan-Ude. After graduating from the local Academy of Culture and Arts, he went to conquer Moscow. In recent years, Maltsev has played small roles in several high-profile TV series - “Soldiers”, “Karpov-2”, “Courage” (about Alla Pugacheva), and starred in several episodes of “Anecdotes” on the Perets channel.
In recent years, Maltsev has played small roles in several high-profile TV series - “Soldiers”, “Karpov-2”, “Courage”.
“Andrey was a creative, bright person from childhood,” Oksana Vetrova-Kasnodzey, a classmate of the deceased actor, told KP. — Sang songs, wrote poems. Loved to be the center of attention. I don’t know if he was married, but he told me that he already has a big son who is studying in Canada. Mom raised Andrei alone. She is already an elderly person. I don’t even know how she will cope with this tragedy...
Vyacheslav Grishechkin - Major Starokon
Sources: still from the TV series “Soldiers”, @likondrova
Vyacheslav, like many artists, began his career on the theater stage, and for a long time he only got episodes in films. Only in the 2000s did he begin to receive good offers, one of which was the series “Soldiers”.
Major Starokon, who will also rise to the rank of colonel, is a close friend of Zubov. The actor's army experience helped him create a vivid and memorable image. Vyacheslav simultaneously took part in other popular TV series - “Hot Ice” and “Margosha”. Today, the actor continues to act in films and play in the theater. He also teaches acting at the university.
