Nikolay Eryomenko

Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko Jr. (Belarusian: Мікалай Мікалаевіч Яроменка (малодшы), (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ерёменко-мла́дший; 14 February 1949 — 27 May 2001) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director of Belarusian origin. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 1994. Nikolai was born in Vitebsk, in the family of People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Yeremenko Sr. (1926—2000) and People's Artist of the BSSR Galina Orlova (1928—2021).

In 1967, he entered the VGIK (workshop of Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova), graduated in 1971 and in the same year was admitted to the troupe of the National Film Actors' Theatre; since 1976 an actor of the Gorky Film Studio.

In cinema, Nikolai Yeremenko made his debut in 1969 acting in the film By the Lake by Gerasimov. According to the results of the annual poll of viewers in the magazine Soviet Screen, Nikolai was recognized as the best actor in 1980 for the role of Sergey Sergeyevich in the film Pirates of the 20th Century.

In the 1990s, Yeremenko decided on the director's debut — Son for Father, where he starred with his father. Since 2001, he was the cultural advisor of the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow.Nikolai died at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow on 27 May 2001, as a result of a stroke. He was buried on 31 May in Minsk in the Eastern Cemetery, next to his father.