Born on November 8, 1929 in the village of Yakovlevsky, Seredsky district, Shuya district, Ivanovo industrial region, RSFSR, USSR.
Died on April 28, 1994 in Moscow.
His real name is Albert.
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1963).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (18.10.1974).
People's Artist of the USSR (03.07.1978).
His father is the director of an agricultural technical school. My mother, Nadezhda Andreevna, an agronomist, worked in the "Korma" pavilion at VDNKh and also earned some money as a seamstress.
The name Albert was given in honor of the Belgian Crown Prince Albert, who captured his mother's imagination during her visit to Moscow. As a child, Albert was called Alik, and at the Moscow Art Theater School they began to call him Oleg. And so on, although in his passport he always remained Albert.
During the Great Patriotic War, he and his family were evacuated to Central Asia.
A graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School (1951).
From 1951 to 1964 he was an actor at the Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater in Kiev.
Since 1964 - an actor of the Bolshoi Gorky Drama Theater in Leningrad.
From 1983 to 1989 he was an actor at the Moscow Art Theater.
In 1989-1990 - an actor of the Theater of the Soviet Army (TsATSA).
Since 1991 - director of the theater "The Enterprise of Oleg Borisov".
He died of a serious incurable disease - lymphoid leukemia.
The actor suffered from this terrible disease for 17 years and, despite this, continued to act in films. His last role was in the film "I'm Bored, Demon" (1993).
Yuri Borisov recalls: "It happened at the Blood Transfusion Institute. My father was in intensive care, but my mother and I were allowed to see him. He was suffering, but he was conscious, and when consciousness began to leave him, he seemed to ... leave quickly. It was Holy Week, but he died on Maundy Thursday and was buried on Easter. Usually, people do not bury on Easter. But it was the decision of his priest, who baptized and married his father and mother - his father was baptized late, and he and his mother decided to get married a few years before their death. It was not a funeral service, but a kind of Christmas carol, festive songs – such a surreal image did not correspond to the ritual at all, but it helped us to come back to life… "
The People's Artist of the USSR was buried on May 1 at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow (section #10, row #8, location #8).
In 1999, a group of bronze sculptures was erected in honor of Oleg Borisov in the role of Svirid Golokhvasty and Margarita Krinitsyna in the role of Pronya Prokopovna from the film "Chasing Two Hares" at the place where the episodes of the film took place: in the center of kyiv, not far from St. Andrew's Church. For newlyweds from the capital of Ukraine, this monument became a place of "pilgrimage" on their wedding day.
The younger brother is People's Artist of Russia Lev Borisov (1933-2011).
His wife, Alla Romanovna Borisova (née Latynskaya), worked for a long time as the editor-in-chief of the Telefilm creative association at the Lenfilm film studio. Son: theater director Yuri Borisov (1956-2007).
Chapter 68 of the cycle "So that they remember" by Leonid Filatov is devoted to the life and work of the actor.
Photos and videos
1971 - La Vérification (Проверка на дорогах) de Alekseï GUERMAN
1965 - Donnez-moi le livre des réclamations (Дайте жалобную книгу) de Eldar RIAZANOV
