Vitali Linetsky

Vitaly Borisovich Linetsky (October 22, 1971 - July 16, 2014) was a Ukrainian theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Ukraine (2004). Born on October 22, 1971, in Ivano-Frankivsk. Graduated from the Kyev National University of Theatre, Film and Television named after Karpenko-Kary.

He served as an actor in the Ivano-Frankivsk Ukrainian Drama Theatre, the Kiev Youth Theater and the Kiev Academic Drama and Comedy Theater on the left bank of the Dnieper.

Twice winner of the professional theater award "Kyiv Pectoral": in 1998 - in the nomination "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" for the role of Senor Meis in the play "A Little Wine ... or 70 Revolutions" based on novels by L. Pirandello, in 2007 - in the nomination " Best Actor in the First Plan" for the role of Yegor Voynitsky in the play "26 Rooms ..." based on A. Chekhov's play "Leshy".

Actively acted in films.

He died at six o'clock in the morning on July 16, 2014, in Kyiv. The director of the Theater on the Left Bank, Alexander Gannochenko, said that the actor fell and hit his head, the same version was confirmed by journalist Maxim Ravreba: “Two days ago he was last seen at Kurenevka. Then the wife was called for identification. Vitaly was found dead in an underground passage along Teligi Street, near St. Cyril's Church. Or killed, or fell from a great height onto concrete steps. But it was an unnatural death." A criminal case was opened on the fact of the death of the actor, but no signs of violent death were found on his body: “A witness, a saleswoman at a round-the-clock stall, saw a man on July 16 at six in the morning sit down on the parapet that encloses the stairs to the underground passage and accidentally fall down , rolling down the stairs. The fact that the man was alone at that time was also recorded by a video camera installed nearby.

Farewell to V. B. Linetsky took place on 21 at the Theater on the Left Bank. The actor is buried at the Berkovets cemetery.