Trivia

In 1937, Nikolai Dupak entered the theatrical school of Rostov on the Don, under the guidance of the famous director, actor and teacher Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky, where he managed to finish only three courses before the war. At the same time he served in the Rostov Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

At the age of nine, he began to actively take part in school performances and productions.

In the spring of 1941, the artist successfully passed the screen tests and became the only one from the whole school in in Rostov-on-Don who was invited to the main role in the new feature film Taras Bulba. The picture was not taken/made at that time due to the outbreak of World War II. .

The actor went from student to commander of the reconnaissance platoon, and was wounded and shell-shocked three times( He lost hearing and speech).

In 1939, Dupak married his colleague Alla Yuryevna Vannovskaya (1920-1966), daughter of the leading actor of the Rostov Drama Theater Yuri Alekseevich Vannovsky.

He was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, front-line soldier, and invalid of the Patriotic War.

He graduated from the Opera and Drama Studio in Moscow.

From 1943 to 1963, he worked as an actor and director at the K.S. Stanislavsky. Then, until 1990, he was an actor and director of the Taganka Theater.

From 1963 to 1990, with short breaks, he headed the Taganka Theater. It was Dupak who came up with his logo - a red square with black inscriptions around the perimeter.

In 1935, Nikolai was invited by the chief director to the Taganrog Drama Theater.

Dupak was remembered by the audience for his roles in the films Taras Bulba, Two Comrades Were Serving, Intervention, Eternal Call and others.

Dupak's creative career lasted 80 years.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Order of Fame .

He was awarded as Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980), Honored Artist of Ukraine (2012) and Honorary Artist of the City of Moscow (2019).

He received anniversary, public and departmental orders and medals of the USSR, the Russian Federation, as well as foreign ones.