Birth of Soviet theater actor, director, People's Artist of the RSFSR Georgy Ivanovich Dyakonov-Dyachenkov

On March 7, 1924, in the city of Buzuluk, Orenburg Region, the future first People's Artist of the RSFSR in Tyumen Region, Georgy Ivanovich Dyakonov-Dyachenkov, was born into the family of operetta artist Ivan Mikhailovich Dyakonov and his wife Ekaterina Pavlovna, head of the costume shop.

His father toured a lot, and theatrical fate brought the family to the city of Chita, where Georgy graduated from a secondary school and at the same time from the ballet studio at the Chita Theater. In 1939, two years after the death of his father, he left for Moscow and entered a factory school; after the outbreak of the war, he worked as a mechanic at a military plant in the city of Kovrov (Ivanovo Region). In 1942, G. I. Dyakonov was mobilized into the Red Army, fought as an anti-aircraft gun commander in the 205th anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 73rd anti-aircraft division of the High Command Reserve, and was seriously wounded. For military services he was awarded government awards.

In 1945 he was sent to study at the Rostov Artillery School, but in the same year he was demobilized and returned to the profession of an artist - he began working at the Buzuluk Drama Theater. In 1946–1947 worked at the Kuibyshev Mobile Theater in Sernovodsk, but after its reorganization he returned to his native Buzuluk, where he worked until leaving for Tyumen, where he was invited in 1950.

Since that time, the fate of G. I. Dyakonov has been connected with the Tyumen Drama Theater (now the Tyumen Bolshoi Drama Theater). During his 34 years of service in the theater, he played 197 diverse roles and received a prefix to his surname, becoming Dyakonov-Dyachenkov. According to him, this happened after the Tyumen Theater’s tour in Ukraine, when the actor’s last name, Dyachenkov, was incorrectly indicated on the posters.

The acting palette of G. I. Dyakonov-Dyachenkov was diverse: drama, vaudeville, classical comedy. Among the significant roles: Dobchinsky (“The Inspector General” by N. Gogol), M. I. Kutuzov (“The Hussar Ballad” by A. Gladkov and “Denis Davydov” by V. Solovyov), Aesop (“Aesop” by G. Figuereid) and many others - from Kurochkin in “A Wedding with a Dowry” (based on the play by N. Dyakov) to the secretaries of regional committees and V. I. Lenin. In a word, he played brilliantly both in plays by classics of Russian and foreign drama, and by Soviet playwrights.

Both his fellow actors and his sons learned the ability to work on a role from G.I. Dyakonov-Dyachenkov. He himself said this about his work: “... an actor, having given the viewer an image, remains with him for the rest of his life, as if growing spiritually. Everywhere I have been on stage, I have known those feelings and passions that I will never experience in life. This means he has become richer”.

Actor S. Belozerskikh said that G. I. Dyakonov-Dyachenkov was the first in the Tyumen Theater to use a tape recorder when working on roles, reading monologues and lines onto tape, listening, analyzing the rules of intonation, the architectonics of speech, achieving truthfulness and naturalness, checking by ear voice and inner state.

The talented actor received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1959, in 1967 he was awarded the Order of Lenin, and in 1976 he became the first People's Artist of the RSFSR in Tyumen Region.

He died on February 4, 1991 in Tyumen.

Every year, the best actors of Tyumen theaters are awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR G. I. Dyakonov-Dyachenkov Prize. A square next to the Tyumen Bolshoi Drama Theater bears the name of this remarkable actor. In this park in 2017, a monument to G. I. Dyakonov-Dyachenkov was unveiled.

Лит.: Белозерских С. Георгий Дьяконов-Дьяченков: эффект присутствия // Тюменские известия. 2 сентября 2017. №152 (6754); Жизнь артиста: Георгий Иванович Дьяконов-Дьяченков: семейный альбом / автор-составитель Н. В. Васькова. Екатеринбург, 2018; Его Высочество Тюменский драматический / авторы текста: Н. А. Миненко, В. А. Чупин. СПб., 2008.

Based on the Presidential Library's materials:

Дьконов-Дьяченков Г. Главная из ролей // Тюменская правда. 1967. № 263 (7 ноября). С. 8 (Доступно в электронном читальном зале);

Дьконов-Дьяченков Г. «Дороже всего доброта» // Тюменский комсомолец. 1983. № 156 (30 декабря). С. 4 (Доступно в электронном читальном зале);

Крицкий Ф. Высокое звание // Тюменская правда. 1959. № 155(4 июля). С. 3 (Доступно в электронном читальном зале);

Нестеров А. Народный артист России // Тюменская правда. 1976. № 299 (22 декабря). С. 3 (Доступно в электронном читальном зале).

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