Georgi Vasilyev

Georgi Nikolayevich Vasilyev (Гео́ргий Никола́евич Васи́льев) (25 November 1899 – 18 June 1946) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. From 1928 to 1943, together with Sergei Vasilyev (often jointly, though incorrectly credited as Vasilyev brothers), he co-directed several films, including an influential and critically acclaimed Chapaev (1934). Georgi Vasilyev received two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942.

Honors and awards

 * Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1940)
 * Stalin Prize:
 * first class (1941) – for Chapaev
 * first class (1942) – for the 1st series of The Defense of Tsaritsyn
 * Order of Lenin (1935) – for Chapaev
 * Order of the Red Star (1944)
 * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945)