Moscow City Duma deputy, actor Nikolai Gubenko died at the age of 79. This was announced by the speaker of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov.

“Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko's heart stopped... Muscovites have lost a real patriot, an outstanding statesman, director and actor. We are a wise colleague-deputy, "

Nikolay Gubenko - actor, film director and screenwriter. From the 1960s he played at the Taganka Theater, in the 1980s he became the chief director of the theater. In 1993 he founded the "

Gubenko was the last Minister of Culture of the USSR; he held this post in 1989-1991. In 2005 he became a deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Communist Party.