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Topic: Pavel Popovich and a well-known film star?
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ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 06-23-2008 10:02 AM
   
I'm currently adding captions to photographs for books on the first cosmonaut team that Rex Hall and I have written, and I'm perplexed about the identity of the person seated beside Pavel Popovich in these two shots. I am almost certain he is a well-known film star (European?) but I simply cannot put a name to the face. Does anyone know for sure who he is? Any help much appreciated.Colin   |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 06-25-2008 03:46 PM
Please let me know if you have any idea as to this fellow's identity. There's an unflown Group 1 cosmonaut also in this (cropped) photo and I really want to use it in the book, but hate having to write "unknown person" only to have a dozen reviewers asking why I hadn't identitifed ...... as the mystery man.Any help appreciated. Colin |
Robonaut
Member Posts: 259
From: Solihull, West Mids, England
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-25-2008 05:11 PM
ColinBack in the 1970's I was quite a movie fan and was quite knowleagable on movies of the 1960's but I do not immediately recognise this person. I will have a good think over the next few days and see if I can come up with anything. Was this photo taken in Star City because if so I doubt he is a Western movie star. Best wishes
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ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 06-25-2008 05:48 PM
Many thanks, Rob. I'd say the photographs were almost certainly taken in the cosmonaut training centre. Because the later-dismissed Mars Rafikov also appears in the uncropped version of these photos, it was taken somewhere between 1960 and 1962. |
Robonaut
Member Posts: 259
From: Solihull, West Mids, England
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-25-2008 06:01 PM
This is very tentative but following a google search on Russian movie stars I think
Alexei Batalov (born 1928) looks like the guy in your photo.The google search produced a number of photographs but there is a good one in a set currently on eBay that came up as the first item on the search. eBay item number 140243862433
See the 26th photo (black & white with an actress). Batalov fits the sort of profile that would allow him to mix with the early cosmonauts. See his Wikipedia biography. This message comes with a big health warning. I am far from certain. Jill thinks the eBay photo may have been reversed? Best wishes
Rob and Jill Wood |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 06-25-2008 06:51 PM
Rob: There's a definite resemblance, but a couple of things prelude it being Batalov. I have looked at a profile photo of Batalov and the nose does not match that on the guy in the photo. Also, as this photo was taken in 1960-62, Batalov would have been in his early 30s at the time, whereas this fellow looks to be in his sixties. Danged if I know where I've seen him before!But many thanks for helping, old mate. Colin |
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