He worked at a factory before World War II and made his film debut as a Mosfilm acting studio student, appearing diverse episodic roles in Grigory Roshal's The Oppenheim Family, Konstantin Yudin's A Girl with a Personality, and Vsevolod Pudovkin's Minin and Pozharsky in 1939.
Kuzma Minin | Dmitry Pozharsky | Minin and Pozharsky | Leonid Minin | Ivan Pozharsky | Amir al-Mu`minin | Amir al-Mu´minin |
The administrative office of the academy is situated in Minin and Pozharsky Square (located alongside the Volga River and the medical students live in dormitories on Meditsinskaya Street in Prioksky City District.
His oratorio Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow (1811) concerned the 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation during the Time of Troubles interregnum by the Second Zemschina Army led by Kuzma Minin-Sukhoruk, a fishmonger, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.