Actor, director and Radio Svoboda announcer Yulian Panych died in France

In the south of France, in the city of Antibes, the actor, director and announcer Yulian Panych died. He was 92 years old.

Panych was born in Ukraine in the city of Zinovievsk (formerly Elisavetgrad, and now Kropyvnytskyi). Since 1946, he lived in Moscow, graduated from the Shchukin Theater School, played in the Pushkin Academic Drama Theater.

In the 1960s, Panych moved to Leningrad and was an actor at the Lenin Komsomol Theater, then worked as a director on television, and since 1968 became one of the founders of the Lentelefilm studio.

In the USSR, Panych starred in 15 films, as a director he shot (co-authored with his wife) two full-length films and one film-performance. Among his greatest creative successes are the tapes “For the Power of the Soviets”, “Raznye sudby”, “Stepan Kolchugin”, “Green Carriage”, “The Road to Home”.

In 1972, Panych immigrated to Israel with his wife and son Igor, and was soon invited to Radio Liberty in Munich, where he became the leading announcer of the station for many years, initially under the pseudonym Alexander Vinogradov.

During Panych’s reading, the listeners got acquainted with books banned in the Soviet Union. Among them are “Gulag Archipelago”, “Moscow-Petushki” and others. In the 1980s, Panych managed the “Microphone Theater” at Svoboda, traveled a lot to perestroika Moscow and Leningrad, these were his star years.

In 2006, Panych’s book of memoirs “Wheel of Happiness. Four Life of One Man” was published in Moscow.

After the end of his career at Svoboda, Yulian Panych was a guest of radio programs.