Viktor Dobrovolsky

 Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (Виктор Николаевич Добровольский; Віктор Миколайович Добровольський; January 23, 1906 – July 28, 1984), was a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).

Biography
In 1928, he graduated from the drama school at Odessa drama theatre. In 1922, he began his stage career. Worked in theatres of Odessa, Kharkiv, Donetsk. In 1944–1956 — actor in the troupe of Ukrainian music and drama theatre named after Ivan Franko in Kiev. In the years 1964–1984 — the leading actor of the Kiev drama theatre named after Lesya Ukrainka. Since 1926 were in the movie. A member of the Union of cinematographers of the Ukrainian SSR.

Died in Kiev on July 28, 1984. He was buried on Baikove Cemetery.

Selected filmography

 * 1926 – Taras Shevchenko
 * 1938 – Pyotr pervyy
 * 1940 – Makar Nechay
 * 1944 – The Ural Front
 * 1947 – Secret Agent
 * 1951 – Bountiful Summer
 * 1953 – Adventure in Odessa''
 * 1954 – Komandir korablya
 * 1956 – Trista let tomu...
 * 1959 – Nebo Zovyot

Honors

 * Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1943)
 * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
 * People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1948)
 * People's Artist of the USSR (1960)
 * Stalin Prize second degree (1951)
 * State Prize of the USSR named after Taras Shevchenko (1983) – for the creation of images of Soviet contemporaries in the performances on stage KATRD name L.Ukrainki
 * Order of Lenin (1951)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966)
 * Order of Cyril and Methodius I degree (Bulgaria