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name: "Mykola Hrynko"
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born: "22 May 1920"
died: "10 April 1989"
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# Mykola Hrynko

Actor. Born 22 May 1920 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. Died 10 April 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 May 1920, Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
- **Died:** 10 April 1989
- **Also known as:** Гринько Микола Григорович, Nikolay Grinko, Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko, Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko, Н. Гринько, N. Grinko, Николай Григорьевич Гринько

## Biography

Mykola Hrynko, also credited as Nikolai Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko, was a Soviet Ukrainian actor. He was born on 22 May 1920 in Kherson and died on 10 April 1989 in Kyiv.

He began his career in theatre before moving to cinema in the early 1960s. Hrynko appeared in numerous Soviet films and is particularly associated with the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, playing roles in *Ivan's Childhood* (1962), *Andrei Rublev* (1966), *Solaris* (1972), *Mirror* (1975) and *Stalker* (1979). He also appeared in Sergei Parajanov's *Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors* (1965), as well as *War and Peace* (1968), *Afonya* (1975), *The Adventures of Buratino* (1976) and *The Adventures of the Electronic* (1980).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stalker* (1979), Fi1m 86, as Professor — [page](https://film.one/film/stalker.md)

## Also known for

- *Solaris* (1972), Kelvin's Father
- *Mirror* (1975), Printery Director
- *Andrei Rublev* (1966), Daniil Chornyy
- *Ivan's Childhood* (1962), Gryaznov
- *Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors* (1965), Batag
- *War and Peace* (1968), Desalles
- *Afonya* (1975), uncle Egor
- *The Adventures of the Electronic* (1980), Professor Gromov

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