Rostislav Yankovsky

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Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky Belarusian: Расьціслаў Янкоўскі is a major Belarusian actor. He was born in Odessa in 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. He has been working in the Minsk Drama Theatre since 1957. Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978. He is the older brother of the more famous Oleg Yankovsky.