The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).
He starred or appeared in more than 31 major films between 1951 and 2000 (with a break between 1987 and 2000), including films such as "Gadfly", "The Forty-first", Khozhdenie za tri morya ("The Journey Beyond Three Seas", also known as "The Traveler"), in which he played Afanasy Nikitin; "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", "Ne podsuden", "Gospodin Velikyi Novgorod", "The Young Peter the Great," "Karl Marxs: The Early Years," and others.
Oleg Kalugin | Oleg Gazmanov | Oleg Mityaev | Oleg Kagan | Oleg Deripaska | Oleg Menshikov | Oleg Maisenberg | Oleg Kulik | Oleg Caetani | Oleg Yefremov | Oleg Strizhenov | Oleg Grabar | Oleg Goncharenko | Oleg Firsov | Oleg Vyugin | Oleg Timchenko | Oleg Tabakov | Oleg Pungin | Oleg Popov | Oleg Ostapenko | Oleg Maslennikov | Oleg Malov | Oleg Litvinenko | Oleg Khlevniuk | Oleg Kashin | Oleg I of Ryazan | Oleg Igorevich Marichev | Oleg Gordievsky | Oleg D. Jefimenko | Oleg Aleksandrovich Smirnov |