Boris Plotnikov

Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (Russian: Борис Григорьевич Плотников; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. His career began in 1970 and he retired in 2019. Plotnikov appeared in more than seventy movies and television series.^[1] He was born in Nevyansk, Soviet Union.

Boris Plotnikov
Борис Плотников
Boris Plotnikov, 2012
Born	Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (1949-04-02)April 2, 1949 Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk province, RSFSR, USSR (now Russia)
Died	December 2, 2020(2020-12-02) (aged 71) Moscow, Russia
Cause of death	COVID-19
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Nationality	Soviet Russian
Alma mater	Ekaterinburg State Theater Institute Ural State University (philological faculty)
Occupations	Actor theatre pedagogue
Years active	1970-2019

His best known roles were as Sotnikov in the 1977 drama movie The Ascent, as Nikolai in the 1988 crime movie The Cold Summer of 1953 and as Ivan in the 1988 science fiction television movie Heart of a Dog.

Plotnikov died on 2 December 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19 at the age of 71.^[2]