Actor and Osobnyak Theater artistic director Podnozov dies

On July 21, it became known that Dmitry Podnozov had died. The Osobnyak Theater, where he served as artistic director, issued a statement: “Yesterday, Dmitry Podnozov passed away. … All of us know that he was an outstanding artist. He was also a truly great person. Someone you could always ask for help, someone you could lean on. Someone who led the theater and all of us with him to the very end.”

The Osobnyak Theater said that over the last six months the actor had been seriously ill. “It was a very hard road, but he held on and remained strong to the very end,” the theater noted. The date of the farewell ceremony is expected to be announced later.

Dmitry Podnozov was born in Leningrad in 1961. His father worked in the criminal investigation department, and his mother was a medical worker. After school, he enrolled in the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (now the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, RGISI), where he studied in the workshop of People’s Artist of the USSR Ruben Agamirzyan.

In 1989, Podnozov, together with actors Tamara Krekhno and Igor Larin, founded the St. Petersburg Drama Theater Osobnyak.

Over his career, the actor appeared in more than 200 films and TV series. His first role came in 1987, in the screen adaptation of Sergei Vysotsky’s novella “Habitat”. Other well-known works include “Major”, “Selfie”, “Wings of the Empire”, “Secrets of Investigation”, and “Sea Devils”.