In Russian films and series, actors who can protect themselves and their loved ones not only in films, but also in life, are shot. Many of them were engaged in serious combat sports.
After reading this article, you will learn about 10 Russian actors who devote a lot of time to training and are able to fend for themselves.
10. Oleg Taktarov
Oleg Taktarov always dreamed of an acting career. He was a timid and shy boy, he really liked to read adventure novels.
So that Oleg learned to defend himself, his father led him to sambo. The coach saw the potential in the boy and decided that he was quite capable of becoming a champion. He was not mistaken. In the early 90s, Taktarov began to achieve very great success in sambo training.
When the fights without rules became popular, Taktarov was invited to America to take part in professional tournaments.
Oleg’s nickname in the USA is “Russian Bear”. He took part in many fights and lost only a few times. Career in Hollywood Taktarov helped to start fame in the ring.
9. Talgat Nigmatulin
Talgat Nigmatulin is called the second Bruce Lee. The family of the future actor lived quite poorly, he lost his father early, and he had to earn extra money in a shoe shop and in a sugar factory. For some time the boy even lived in an orphanage.
He seriously became interested in karate, began to engage in athletics, ballroom dancing. The way to the cinema was provided to Nigmatulin by charisma, a bright appearance and a wonderful physical form.
For the actor, the image of the villain has strengthened for a long time: in films he most often had to play just such roles. He did not need stuntmen: he performed all the fighting techniques and tricks on his own.
8. Vladimir Mashkov
Actor Vladimir Mashkov prefers ordinary weights, rather than new-fangled dumbbells, barbells and fitness equipment. Vladimir devotes a lot of time to training, and therefore he has the figure of a real athlete.
The love of strength training was inherited by Vladimir. His father worked in a puppet theater and was forced to keep heavy things for a long time.
Since he did not have money for gyms, he trained at home: he took irons from cast iron and walked around the house with them. The little son admired his father and also began to train when he grew up.
7. Vladimir Epifantsev
Vladimir Epifantsev was interested in martial arts from an early age. As a child, he was very fond of films about mixed martial arts and he dreamed of becoming an actor to star in such films.
However, Vladimir began to play sports quite late, only at the age of 16. He independently mastered percussion techniques and learned to understand martial arts.
Epifantsev notes that he used to work in very poor conditions, with insufficiently high-quality equipment. When he had the opportunity to practice not in the basement, but in elite sports clubs, he began to receive much more pleasure from training.
6. Vlad Demin
Vladislav Demin is an actor in cinema and drama theater. At a young age, Vlad really liked films with Bruce Lee. They inspired the future actor to practice Wushu.
Vladislav achieved his first serious successes already after half a year of classes: he won the silver award at regional competitions. Demin was engaged in a wide variety of martial arts: karate, kickboxing, hand-to-hand combat.
Thanks to martial arts, the actor has cultivated such important qualities as restraint, prudence and the ability to make informed decisions in unusual situations.
5. Pavel Priluchny
Pavel Priluchny can be called the idol of modern youth. In his youth, he devoted much time to boxing. Priluchny became a candidate for master of sports when he was only 14 years old.
Regular concussions became the main problem for Paul, and in the end, because of them, he had to forever part with a dangerous boxing.
Sports training and training did not go in vain: now it’s very easy for an actor to act in action films, and he can cope with rather complicated tricks without problems.
4. Nikita Panfilov
Nikita Panfilov, a film and theater actor, wanted to connect life with sports when he was a schoolboy. He gave preference to Greco-Roman wrestling. Nikita's father fully supported the choice of his son: he encouraged the boy in every possible way, rejoiced at his victories.
Panfilov achieved very great successes, he became a master of sports for the 8th grade. However, Nikita still realized that the eternal feeling of fatigue, injury, frequent trips to competitions and numerous exhausting workouts are very exhausting.
Panfilov chose the acting sphere, which greatly pleased his mother.
3. Mikhail Porechenkov
Mikhail Porechenkov was a boxer. He gave this sport 9 years of his life. Once Porechenkov knocked out the opponent with only two blows: the fight then did not even have time to really begin.
Michael is boxing now, so the actor is in very good physical shape. He perfectly embodies heroic images on the screens.
2. Evgeny Dyatlov
In his youth, Evgeny Dyatlov dreamed of connecting his life with boxing. At first he studied himself, according to the book, then went to the sports section.
Eugene is sure that physical activity is necessary for the body of any person. Now he regularly goes to the pool, and also practices at home. Eugene has two horizontal bars, a punching bag, a Swedish wall.
1. Dmitry Nagiev
When Dmitry Nagiyev was in elementary school, he began to practice judo and sambo. The boy was short, thin, he was often offended by older children, but he preferred to do without complaints and boldly resisted the offenders.
Dmitry preferred sambo. The boy worked with full dedication: instead of a summer vacation, he went to sports camps, never missed training. Thanks to his perseverance and hard work, he received the title of master of sports.
The main thing in Nagiyev’s life nevertheless was the acting, about which he had dreamed since childhood, and not sports.
In the 90s it was necessary to feed the family, to make money, and Dmitry was completely immersed in a new sphere.
The actor considers the ability to maintain equanimity in the most difficult situations and tempered character to be his most important sporting achievements.