Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Roman Kartsev has died at 79 in Moscow on October 2, according to his granddaughter Veronik Yevstigneyeva.
Roman Kartsev (Roman Katz) was born on May 20, 1939 in Odessa. He was an actor of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1988-1992). For several decades he performed in a duet with Viktor Ilchenko (Kartsev and Ilchenko).