Igor Olegovich Gorbachev - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, teacher. Artistic director of the Leningrad Drama Theater named after A. S. Pushkin (1975-1991). People's Artist of the USSR (1972). Hero of Socialist Labor (1987). Cavalier of the Order of Lenin (1987). Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR. K. S. Stanislavs
In 1951-1954 he served as an actor at the Bolshoi TheaterBolshoi Theater named after M. Gorky, where he was remembered for the role of the sailor Shvandi in the play Love Yarovaya, which was filmed and shown in cinemas.