Waleri Jewsejewitsch Kosinez

Valeri Yevseevich Kozinets (May 9, 1939 – November 8, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and screenwriter.

In the 1960s, Kozinets was an actor at the Moscow Yermolova Theatre. From 1971 to 1977, he was an actor at Mosfilm. In 1977, he joined Lenfilm.

In 1972, he starred in the main role of Ruslan in the film adaptation of the poem by A. Pushkin “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, directed by Alexander Ptushko.

Valeri Kozinets died in Saint Petersburg on November 8, 2020, at the age of 81.