列奥尼特·聂伟托姆斯基，Leonid Vitalevich Nevedomsky was born on October 13, 1939, in Vitebsk, Belarus, USSR (now Vitsebsk, Belarus). In 1957 he began his acting career on stage at Sverdlovsk Drama Theatre under director Vladimir Motyl. In 1967 he graduated from the class of Georgi Tovstonogov at the Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography in Leningrad (St.