The famous Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor.
Born December 12, 1928 in Znamenskoye Donetsk region.
In 1929 his parents moved to the city Kramatorsk where Bykov graduated from high school № 6, ibid first appeared on the stage of the local House of Culture named after VI Lenin. During WWII, Leonid together with his family was evacuated to Barnaul. In 1945, when we were in Leningrad, he enrolled in the 2 nd special school for pilots (Aerotour), where he studied for only a month.
After the acting department of Kharkiv Theatre Institute in 1951 (the rate of DI Antonovich), Leonid Bykov was in company of Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre, TG Shevchenko University, where he worked until 1960.
In the years 1960-1968 – an actor and director Lenfilm Studio, since 1969 – an actor and director of the Kiev studio named AP Dovzhenko.
In 1952 he played his first role in cinema. It was a film directed by Isaac Shmaruka and Viktor Ivchenko, "The Fate of Marina." Leonid got cameo simple village guy Sashko.
In 1954, director Alexander Ivanovo and Hope Kosheverova invite bulls role Petit Mokina in his painting "tiger tamer. The film was a huge success with the public. Since then the name of the actor Leonid Bykov was known to all. Meanwhile, almost simultaneously with the filming of "tamer" in the same Lenfilm Bykov was filmed in another scene where he already got the main role. It was a picture of Anatoli Granik Maxim Perepelitsa. " The success of this film in theaters was much lower than in the previous two, but Bykov is this picture truly opened the doors to a great film and earned him a great love of the audience. Bykov actively removed, however, most of these were roles that are similar to each other: such things Maxims Perepelitsa small scale. The actor did not want to endlessly exploit the same mask, so by accepting the new proposals, he tried to choose the role of different plan.
Film Aleshkina Love "was released the country in 1961. Bykov played in it one of his best roles in movies and on the right took a leading place among the then Soviet stars. From 1961 to 1964 on account Bykov was only a few roles in films: "The Seven Winds," "When raise the bridges," "Beware, my grandmother!".
In 1961, Leonid Bykov tried himself directing – along with director Herbert Rappoport he shot the short film "How to rope or winding …". In 1963, he took off his own comedy "Bunny", which played a major role. Long-held dream Leonid Bykov was staged picture of the heroism of the Soviet pilots during the war. Love for the people of that profession lived in it constantly. In collaboration with writers Eugene Onoprienko and Alexander Satskim script was written by future film "go to fight old men." However, to put a picture for a long time not given, considering it is not too heroic. Painting "go to fight old men" came out on the screens of the country in early 1974 and was hugely popular with the public. At the All-Union Festival in Baku film received an honorary prize. In 1976, Leonid Bykov shot another picture, again on the war. The film is called "Ata-Two, Soldiers were going."
Written scripts for film magazine "wick", unfinished film "Alien" (1979).
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965).
People's Artist of USSR (1974).
He died in a car accident on the 46-kilometer highway Minsk-Kiev "April 11, 1979. The tragedy occurred at 16 hours and 30 minutes, when Leonid Fedorovich returned to his car from his dacha near Kiev. In front of him moved asfaltirovochny rink, and Bykov decided to drive around. However, as soon as he began to overtake, he ran toward the truck. To avoid head-on collisions, Bykov turned the wheel to the side and on the whole speed crashed into a skating rink.
He was buried on April 13 Baikove cemetery Kiev polling station number 2.
About Leonid Bykov on behalf of the studios AP Dovzhenko film "… which was loved by everyone" (directed by Leonid Osyka, 1982).
In 1994, the International Astronomical Union has appropriated one of the minor planet name of "bulls".
In Kiev and Kharkov, memorial plaques, near village Diemer place car accident that killed actor, a monument (1998), in 2001 in Kiev monument LFBulls in the role Titarenko as a symbol of the dead pilots heroes.
In April 2002, in Kramatorsk a bronze bust by sculptor Leonid Bykov, SA Gontar.
In honor of the actor named Boulevard in Kyiv.
Theatre work:
Pavel Korchagin – "How the Steel Was Tempered"
Prizes and awards:
Awarded the Order of the October Revolution.
Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category "First prize for acting work" for 1974.
Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category "The first prize for feature films" for 1974.
State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR behalf of TG Shevchenko (1977).
Lapel badge "Excellent cultural patronage over the Armed Forces of the USSR.