Efim Katsirov

Efim Katsirov is Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1992). Member of the Union of Theater Workers since 1965. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia since 2009. Winner of the special award of Artyom Borovik "Honor. Courage. Mastery "(2012). Winner of the contest "The best book of 2011-2013 years" with the award of the Order of M. Yu. Lermontov (2013). Member of the Petrovskiy Academy of Sciences and Arts (October 2013). Participant in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Born in Dnepropetrovsk. In the same place he graduated from high school and mountain technical school. In 1962 he arrived in Moscow and entered the acting department of the Higher Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin (course of Anatoli Borisov). In 1966 he graduated with honors. In 1972, he graduated from the directing department of the same school with honors. In 1977 Efim graduated from the Higher Theater Courses of GITIS. From June 1965 he was an intern, and from June 1966 he was a soloist with the Moscow Academic Operetta Theater, performing comedy roles in operettas and musicals. He worked in the theater for 34 years. Engaged in dubbing animated films and voicing. Among his most famous works are: The Snow Beast (Novogodnyaya skazka (1972)), Baba Yaga from the animation Ivashka iz Dvortsa pionerov (1981), a parrot from the Botsman i popugay (1982) animated series. He also starred in movies.