Actor, director, screenwriter of radio and television Evgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik was born on January 5, 1923 in Leningrad, and soon the family moved to Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine).
Father Evgeny Vesnik was an outstanding figure of Soviet industry. It was he who initiated the construction in the 30s, and then became the first general director of the Krivorizhstal plant. Yakov Vesnik after the mysterious death of G. Ordzhonikidze (with whom he was a close friend) was arrested and soon shot (November 17, 1937).
Evgeny Vesnik’s mother, Evgeny Emmanuilovna, was exiled to Kazakhstan after her husband was shot, and Evgeny was placed in an orphanage.
Evgeny Vesnik had to wander without housing and survive without means of basic existence. And then there was the Great Patriotic War, to which Yevgeny Yakovlevich entrusted his fate.
The great victory of 1945, Eugene Vesnik met with military orders and medals on his chest, in the rank of senior lieutenant. And already in 1948, a talented student of the Shchepkin Theatre School graduated and was accepted into the troupe of actors of the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre.
Evgeny Vesnik successfully coped with acting and directing work in theaters: Satires since 1954, Malom - since 1963.
In the Maly Theatre, Yevgeny Yakovlevich worked on stage with such outstanding actors as Sadovsky, Ryzhova, Turchaninova. “When the old people left, my love for this theater went away,” Vesnik said. And in 1992 he left the theater, in which he worked fruitfully for many years.
In the movie Eugene Vesnik appeared in 1955, when the screens came out.
film "Othello" He played the role of Rodrigo. The most successful in the number of films with the participation of Vesnick and the increasing popularity of the actor were the sixties-seventies.
Vesnik was an unsurpassed master of stage reincarnation. He had a wide variety of walks. Thoughtful, calm, judicious in one role, he could quickly become the complete opposite - a talkative, reckless, reckless hero.
The film “Adventures of Electronics”, for the shooting of which Eugene Vesnik was invited, brought him extraordinary success! The role of a teacher of mathematics, absent-minded, but good-natured, sincere, a little funny person, he did on his own, choosing a special gait for him, a manner of talking “in the nose” and so on.
In the nineties, Yevgeny Yakovlevich starred little, and at the beginning of the new millennium, the actor was overcome by serious health problems. On April 7, 2009, he suffered a stroke, and three days later Vesnik died. The actor was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. /