Actor Vasily Lanovoy passed away because of coronavirus

The actor became infected with covid along with his wife Irina Kupchenko.

On the eve it became known that Lanovoy was transferred to the intensive care unit due to a sharply deteriorated condition. Today, his wife announced the death of the actor.

- Vasily Semyonovich died, - Irina Kupchenko reports to TASS.

Vasily Lanovoy has played in more than 80 films. Some of his most famous works are his roles in the films Scarlet Sails, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Officers, and Seventeen Moments of Spring. Since 1957 he played an ode at the theater. Vakhtangov.

On January 16, Lanovoy turned 87 years old.