Aleksandr Yakovlevich Askoldov (; 17 June 1932 - 21 May 2018) was a Soviet Russian actor and film director.

Life and career

Askoldov was born in 1932 in Moscow; soon after his birth, his family moved to Kiev. His father was Iakov Askoldov (né Kalmanovich), a Jewish man from Slutsk who was a commissar during the Russian Civil War and later a manager of a factory in Kiev.

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