Curiosidades

He was given his name, Spartak, which means Spartacus in Russian, at the insistence of his uncle, his father's brother, Professor Aleksandr Vasilevich Mishulin. Aleksandr was a famous teacher and historian, who specialized in the War of Spartacus (73-71 B.C.), the last of the three unsuccessful slave rebellions against ancient Rome, the Servile Wars, that took place in the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.

Spartak was buried on July 21 in Moscow at the Vagankovo cemetery (12 site).

He died at about 4 am after heart surgery.

National Artist of the RSFSR (1981).