Sergei Nikonenko

Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).

He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.

Selected filmography

 * 1967
 * The Red and the White (Звёзды и солдаты) as Cossack Officer
 * The Journalist (Журналист) as Reutov
 * 1969 White Explosion (Белый взрыв) as Kolya Spichkin
 * 1970 Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) as Nikolai
 * 1972 Liberation (Освобождение) as Sashka Golubev
 * 1973 The Sky Is Beyond the Clouds (За облаками — небо)
 * 1974 ''Birds over the City (Птицы над городом) as Vishnyakov
 * 1977 An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) as Yashka, the footman
 * 1978 Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) as episode
 * 1979 The Theme (Тема) as Sinitsyn
 * 1980 Do Not Part with Your Beloved (С любимыми не расставайтесь) as Shumilov
 * 1981 Gipsy Happiness
 * 1984 Planet Parade (Парад планет) as Vasily Afonin
 * 1985 Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх) as Valentin Fomenko, choreographer
 * 1987
 * Tomorrow Was the War (Завтра была война) as school director
 * Lilac Ball (Лиловый шар) as Horse-eater
 * 1988 Tree Sticks! (Ёлки-палки!) as Nikolai Nikolayevich Knyazev
 * 1989
 * Stalingrad (Сталинград) as General Aleksandr Rodimtsev
 * The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным) as Kliment Voroshilov
 * 1991 Viva Gardes-Marines! (Виват, гардемарины!) as Count Piotr Grigoryevich Chernyshev
 * 1992 Encore, Once More Encore! (Анкор, еще анкор!) as Ivan Kryukov
 * 1994 The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) as Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev
 * 1998 Composition for Victory Day (Сочинение ко Дню Победы) as Nechiporenko
 * 1998 Classic (Классик) as Gorsky
 * 2003 And in the Morning They Woke Up (А поутру они проснулись)
 * 2005 The Fall of the Empire (Гибель империи) as Paul von Rennenkampf
 * 2006 Soviet Park (Парк советского периода) as Divisional Commander Chapayev
 * 2009 Attack on Leningrad (Ленинград) as captain of artillery
 * 2010 What Men Talk About (О чём говорят мужчины) as captain of the ship
 * 2018 The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (Крымский мост. Сделано с любовью!) as Talib Nazirovich
 * 2021 The Crying Steppe as Filipp Goloshchyokin

Honours and awards

 * Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
 * Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) – the incarnation of images in contemporary cinema
 * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991) – for his contribution in the development of Soviet cinema
 * Prize at the Constellation / Sozvezdie film festival in Tver (1999) for the best male lead in "Classic"
 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2001) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
 * Main prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the best diploma director's work - the movie "Petruhina name"
 * International literary award named after Sergei Yesenin "On Russia, wave your wings ..." in the "Film, Theatre, Television" (2010)
 * Order of Honour (2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
 * Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017) – for great contribution to the development of national culture and art, media, and many years of fruitful activity
 * Stanislavsky Award (2021) – for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of K. S. Stanislavski