Russian actor Alexei Batalov passes away

People’s Artist of the USSR, famous Russian actor Alexei Batalov died aged 88 on Thursday night in a Moscow hospital, a close friend of the late actor told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.  

Batalov was born in Vladimir on 20 November 1928. In 1979, he was invited to play Gosha in the melodrama Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.