Aleksei Smirnov

Biography

Aleksei Smirnov was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor born on February 28, 1920, in Danilov, Yaroslavl Oblast. He began acting at school and graduated from the Leningrad Music Comedy Theater school in 1940, joining the troupe before the Great Patriotic War. During the war, Smirnov served as a volunteer, later becoming a chemical instructor and squad leader in an artillery battery.