Vakhtang Kikabidze

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Vakhtang "Buba" Konstantinovich Kikabidze (Georgian ვახტანგ კიკაბიძე, Russian Вахтанг Константинович Кикабидзе. b. Tbilisi, 19 July 1938) is a Georgian variety singer, actor, film director, and playwright, well known in the former Soviet Union.

His best known role in the West is in the film Mimino, playing a helicopter pilot.

He is a People's Artist of Georgia, has won the USSR State Prize, and been honoured at many theatre congresses and film festivals around the world.