Biography

Aleksandr Lipov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

Lipov was born in Oryol. His father was the director of Oryol school No. 24. With the beginning of the war, his father went to the front, and the family lived in Groznyy during the occupation of Oryol. After the war he graduated from school No. 24 in Oryol. Initially, he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute. However, after the second year Aleksandr left his studies and a year later entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

After graduating from VGIK, Lipov was sent to the Lenfilm film studio, where he worked for 35 years. During this time, he starred in about 50 films, and also managed to work in dubbing. In the 1990s, he worked at St. Petersburg radio, reading for the radio a series of stories by Lev Tolstoy, Nikolai Leskov, and Ivan Shmelyov.

In 1999 Aleksandr Lipov returned to Oryol. Since 2000 he has been working at the Oryol Russian Style Theater.
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