Maksim Shtraukh
Born	Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (1900-02-23)23 February 1900 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	3 January 1974(1974-01-03) (aged 73) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theatre director
Years active	1925-1974

Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (Russian: Макси́м Макси́мович Штра́ух; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.^[1] He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize between 1950 and 1951.^[2]

He is known for playing Vladimir Lenin on stage and in film. He had a privilege to get a discount for V. I. Lenin bust at any USSR shop.

Selected filmography

• 1923 – Glumov's Diary
• 1924 – Strike
• 1929 – The General Line
• 1929 – The Ghost That Never Returns
• 1930 – The Civil Servant
• 1933 – The Deserter
• 1933 – The Conveyor of Death
• 1934 – The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
• 1936 – A Severe Young Man
• 1938 – Doctor Aybolit
• 1938 – The Man with the Gun
• 1938 – The Vyborg Side
• 1940 – Yakov Sverdlov
• 1942 – His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
• 1943 – Two Soldiers
• 1943 – The Young Fritz
• 1946 – The Vow
• 1947 – Light over Russia
• 1948 – The Court of Honor
• 1949 – The Battle of Stalingrad
• 1949 – The Fall of Berlin
• 1950 – Conspiracy of the Doomed
• 1956 – Murder on Dante Street
• 1957 – Stories About Lenin
• 1957 – Leningrad Symphony
• 1965 – Lenin in Poland