Pyotr Zaychenko

Career

Fame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in Vadim Abdrashitov's Planet Parade (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game and Armavir.

In 1990, Zaychenko played Ivan Shlykov in Pavel Lungin's Taxi Blues.

He was director of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

Selected filmography

Planet Parade (1984) as Ivan Pukhov

Attempted Electrification (1985) as Shcherbakov

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game (1987) as druzhinnik

Taxi Blues (1990) as Shlykov

The Tale of the Outstanding Moon (1990) as Vasily Vasilievich

Armavir (1991) as Arthur

Lost in Siberia (1991) as investigator

Stalin's Testament (1993) as general, presidential candidate

Krapachuk (1993) as Chelorek

Concerto for Fats (1995) as Pronin

Crusader (1995) as drug trafficker Tosha

A Moslem (1995) as Pavel Petrovich

The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998) as Igor, businessman

Wolfhound (2006) as Fitela

Free Floating (2006) as Elderly man from brigade

Last Slaughter (2007) as Anatoly

Taras Bulba (2008) as Metelitsa

I Am (2009) as Chernobyl survivor

Home (2011) as Alexey Shamanov

Siberia, Monamour (2011) as grandfather Ivan

Leningrad 46 (2014) as the old man near the temple

Sophia (2016) as Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

Awards

Medal "For Labour Valour" (1986)

Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1998)

Order of Friendship (2014)