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Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (Russian: Операция «Ы» и другие приключения Шурика, romanized: Operatsiya «Yery» i drugiye priklyucheniya Shurika) is a 1965 Soviet slapstick comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin and Yevgeny Morgunov.
Prisoner of the Caucasus or Shurik's New Adventures (Russian: Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика) [n 1] is a 1967 Soviet romantic musical comedy film dealing with a plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Demyanenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Демья́ненко; May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). He is best known for playing the character Shurik in Leonid Gaidai's movies.
The story begins in 1973 Moscow, where engineer Aleksandr "Shurik" Timofeyev (Aleksandr Demyanenko) is working on a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha (Yury Yakovlev), superintendent of his apartment building, and George Miloslavsky (Leonid Kuravlyov), a burglar, back into the time of tsar Ivan IV "The Terrible".
Shurik, Maku , Maku County, West Azerbaijan Province; Shurik, Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province; Shurik, Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province; Shurik-e Abdabad; Shurik (Russian: Шурик), a Russian-language diminutive for the first name Alexander. Shurik (Gaidai) , the protagonist in several Russian films directed by Leonid Gaidai
(Russian: Кавказская пленница!; informally referred to as the Kidnapping, Caucasian Style 2 version) is a Russian comedy film by director Maxim Voronkov. A remake of the 1967 film of the same name , the plot revolves around bride kidnapping , an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the North Caucasus .
Pugovkin went on to appear in more than 100 films. His roles in Leonid Gaidai's comedies, such as Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965), Twelve Chairs (1971), Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973) and Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) made him one of the most popular comedians of the former Soviet Union.
Leonid Iovich Gaidai [a] (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union.