On August 25, 2009, Distinguished Artist of Russia Arkady Volgin will celebrate his 70^th birthday. Arkady Volgin’s creative biography is entirely connected with the Pushkin Drama Theater where he was admitted right after graduation from the theater institute in1960.  In the half century he dedicated the Alexandrinsky stage, he had played a big number of roles including: Pilot Yan Sun (“The Good Person from Sezuan” by B. Brecht, 1962), Egmont (“Before the Sunset” by H. Hauptmann, 1963), Ustimentko (“The Cause you Serve To” by Yu. German, 1968), Duke (“The Little Tragedies” by A. Pushkin, 1965), Saint-Exupery (“The Life of Saint-Exupery” by L. Malyugin, 1969), Kshishtof Maksimovich (“Rush Hour” by Ye. Stavinsky, 1973), Chepurnoy (“Children of the Sun” by M. Gorky, 1976), Michel (“A Murder in Nemur” by A. Christie, 1991), Pinsky (“Judas of the City of Piter” by the Strugatsky Brothers, 1996), Colonel Pikering (“Pygmalion” by B. Shaw, 1998), Holy Fool (“Boris Godunov” by A. Pushkin, 1999), and many other.  At present, the actor’s repertoire includes several roles in Valery Fokin’s performances: influential bureaucrat Andrey Filippovich (“The Double” after St. Petersburg poem of F. Dostoyevsky, 2005), Court Investigator (“The Living Corps” by L. Tolstoy, 2006), Merchant Starikov (“The Marriage” by N. Gogol, 2008); in Yury Butusov’s performance “Man Equals Man” nominated for the Golden Soffite theater award Arkady Volgin plays the cunning bonze Van. In the new season, public will see the actor in Andrey Moguchy’s performance “Izotov,” the first night of which is scheduled for October 23, 2009.