---
name: "Valentin Zubkov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/valentin-zubkov"
fi1m_id: "valentin-zubkov"
imdb_id: "nm0958284"
tmdb_id: 119567
wikidata_id: "Q2003935"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 May 1923"
died: "18 January 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:09:30.849502+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Valentin Zubkov

## Identity

Valentin Zubkov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/valentin-zubkov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** valentin-zubkov
- **IMDb ID:** nm0958284
- **TMDB ID:** 119567
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2003935
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Zubkov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2003935, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958284/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119567

Actor. Born 12 May 1923 in Pesochnya. Died 18 January 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 May 1923, Pesochnya
- **Died:** 18 January 1979
- **Also known as:** В. Зубков, V. Zubkov
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Zubkov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2003935, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958284/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119567

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Cranes Are Flying*](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Valentin Ivanovich Zubkov (Russian: Валентин Иванович Зубков) was a Soviet film actor. He was born on 12 May 1923 in Peschanoye, Ryazan Governorate, and died on 18 January 1979 in Moscow.

Zubkov trained at the Armavir Military Aviation School (1941–1943) and served as a pilot during the Second World War. He made his film debut in *It Began This Way* (1956) and later joined the Theater Studio of Film Actor in 1960. He is known for his roles as Stepan in *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957) and as Kholin in *Ivan's Childhood* (1962), as well as appearances in *The Communist* (1958), *Our Father's House* (1959) and *A Day of Happiness* (1963). He was credited as V. Zubkov and received the title of Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1969.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Fi1m 87, as Stepan — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Valentin Zubkov. A Kiss Over the Abyss* (2016), Actor
- *To Remember* (1993), series, as archivefootage
- *If You Want To Be Happy* (1974), as Vasiliy Petrovich
- *With You and Without You* (1973), Actor
- *The Last Fort* (1972), Actor
- *Boys Are a Good People* (1972), Actor
- *Zoya Rukhadze* (1972), Actor
- *The Steamships Sound and Drift Away...* (1972), as Guriy Ivanovich
- *Attention Tsunami!* (1969), Actor
- *I Am His Bride* (1969), Actor
- *Шаги по земле* (1969), as Matvey Petrovich Zhuravlyov
- *At War as at War* (1969), as Basov
- *The Mysterious Monk* (1968), as Lobov
- *Quarantine* (1968), as Doroshenko
- *Wild Honey* (1967), as Serbin
- *Uncle's Dream* (1967), Actor
- *I'm a Soldier Mom* (1967), Actor
- *Mercy Train* (1965), Actor
- *A Day of Happiness* (1964), Actor
- *High Water* (1963), Actor
- *Ivan's Childhood* (1962), as Kholin
- *Following the Sun* (1961), as военный музыкант, валторнист
- *Summer Vacations Time* (1961), Actor
- *Yevdokiya* (1961), as Porokhin
- *Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend* (1961), as Andrei
- *Northern Story* (1960), Actor
- *The Sun Shines to Everyone* (1959), as Nikolay Savelyev
- *May Stars* (1959), Actor
- *A Home for Tanya* (1959), as Sergei Ivanovich
- *Over Tissa* (1958), as Clark
- *The Communist* (1958), as Stepan
- *Three Came Out of the Woods* (1958), Actor
- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), as Stepan — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)
- *It Began This Way...* (1956), as Skvortsov

## Gallery

- ![Valentin Zubkov](https://film.one/media/person/3875559/gallery-3af339fcef79.jpg) Valentin Zubkov — Image via TMDB
- ![Valentin Zubkov](https://film.one/media/person/3875559/gallery-233a7f8116b1.jpg) Valentin Zubkov — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1969: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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