Dear Vyacheslav! Out warmest congratulations on your 80th anniversary! Happy Birthday! You once said in one of your interviews: “One is priceless in a place he was born” summing up in this phrase your own bright creative way starting from Shchukin Theatre School, proceeding to the Vakhtangov Theatre and Ruben Simonov Theatre . You fully possess such features as creative passion, commitment, ability to express your own self in a variety of genres and roles. You have lived a long and happy creative life of an actor, director and teacher. You may be proud the played roles, of your students, love and success with the audience. You have been depicting your creative biography with broad strokes of oil, exquisite watercolors, pastels and gouache. Your multicolor images are persuasive and memorable. Your characters loved, suffered, forgave, cheated, and in each their incarnation were funny and memorable. Your name and your success are united by glory. With love and respect, Vakhtangov theatre company.