Виталий Шаповалов

Vitaly Vladimirovich Shapovalov ( May 1, 1939 , Yurkovka , Kiev region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR - November 14, 2017 , Moscow , Russia ) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR ( 1990 ). In a number of publications, he accompanied Владимир Высоцкий on the guitar. Origin He graduated from the Khabarovsk Music College in the trumpet class, then in 1968 graduated from the B. Shchukin Theater School and in the same year was accepted into the troupe of the Taganka Theater. Acting career In 1985, during Yuri Lyubimov's departure from the USSR, when Anatoly Efros was appointed chief director at the Taganka Theater, Shapovalov, along with Вениамин Смехов and Леонид Филатов, left for the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, where he worked for two years. In 1987, he returned to the Taganka Theater again. Shapovalov, as an actor, is characterized by mastery of reincarnation, careful attention to words, gestures, and a powerful temperament. One of his colleagues at the theater, Alexander Trofimov, described him as follows: "In my opinion, this is that rare breed of artists. This is from the area of Борис Андреев and Павел Луспекаев — he is such a people's man." In 2009, when Vitaly Shapovalov was injured (he had a hip fracture), he was dismissed by Юрий Любимов from the Taganka Theater, but, contrary to expectations, in 2011, when Lyubimov retired, he was never reinstated at his former place of work under the new artistic director of the theater, Валерий Золотухин. Illness and death On October 25, 2017, Vitaly Vladimirovich, while at home, fell unsuccessfully. As a result, there was a dislocation in the hip joint, where an endoprosthesis was installed five years ago. Ex-wife Irina Borisovna, who took care of Vitaly Vladimirovich, called an ambulance. The patient was hospitalized in Botkin hospital, where the dislocation was corrected. Then the artist was sent for rehabilitation to the hospital of the Presidential Administration of Russia on Starovolynskaya Street. There was a rapid swelling of the diseased leg and a diagnosis of "phlegmon" was made. The patient was operated on. The last few days after the operation, Vitaly Vladimirovich was in extremely serious condition. He died at the age of 79 on November 14, 2017 in the hospital. He was buried at the Troekurovsky Cemetery in Moscow.