High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Олег Иванович Янковский) (February 23, 1944, Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR – May 20, 2009, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a People`s Artist of the USSR.