An autographed questionnaire from actor Oleg Efremov

Oleg Vladimirovich Efremov is a Soviet and Russian actor and director of theater and cinema, teacher, theater worker. Hero of Socialist Labor (1987). People's Artist of the USSR (1976). Winner of three State Prizes of the USSR (1969, 1974, 1983) and two State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1998, 2004 — posthumously). Knight of the Order of Lenin (1987). One of the founders and the first secretary of the Board of the Union of Theatrical Figures of the USSR, a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. He was elected People's Deputy of the USSR from creative unions. Member of the CPSU since 1955.

Oleg Efremov is the creator of the Sovremennik Theater, in 1956-1970 he was its artistic director; since 1970 he headed the Moscow Art Theater of the USSR. Gorky, and after its partition in 1987 — the Moscow Art Theater named after him. Chekhov.

One of the outstanding theater directors of his time, Oleg Efremov always remained an actor; on the theater stage he created memorable images of contemporaries in the plays of V. Rozov, A. Volodin and A. Gelman; among the best roles of the Moscow Art Theater period are Chekhov's Astrov and Moliere in the "Cabal of Saints" by M. Bulgakov; moviegoers are known primarily as Colonel Gulyaev ("Battalions ask for fire"), taxi driver Sasha ("Three poplars on Ivy"), Maxim Podberezovikov ("Beware of the car"), Aibolit ("Aibolit-66").

For half a century, since 1949, Oleg Efremov taught acting skills at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, was a professor and head of the Department of acting skills.