Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (Russian: Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).

He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.^[1]

Selected filmography

• 1967
  • The Red and the White (Звёзды и солдаты) as Cossack Officer
  • The Journalist (Журналист) as Reutov
• 1969 White Explosion (Белый взрыв) as Kolya Spichkin
• 1970 Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) as Nikolai
• 1972 Liberation (Освобождение) as Sashka Golubev
• 1973 The Sky Is Beyond the Clouds (За облаками — небо)
• 1974 Birds over the City (Птицы над городом) as Vishnyakov
• 1977 An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) as Yashka, the footman
• 1978 Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) as episode
• 1979 The Theme (Тема) as Sinitsyn
• 1980 Do Not Part with Your Beloved (С любимыми не расставайтесь) as Shumilov
• 1981 Gipsy Happiness
• 1984 Planet Parade (Парад планет) as Vasily Afonin
• 1985 Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх) as Valentin Fomenko, choreographer
• 1987
  • Tomorrow Was the War (Завтра была война) as school director
  • Lilac Ball (Лиловый шар) as Horse-eater
• 1988 Tree Sticks! (Ёлки-палки!) as Nikolai Nikolayevich Knyazev
• 1989
  • Stalingrad (Сталинград) as General Aleksandr Rodimtsev
  • The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным) as Kliment Voroshilov
• 1991 Viva Gardes-Marines! (Виват, гардемарины!) as Count Piotr Grigoryevich Chernyshev
• 1992 Encore, Once More Encore! (Анкор, еще анкор!) as Ivan Kryukov
• 1994 The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) as Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev
• 1998 Composition for Victory Day (Сочинение ко Дню Победы) as Nechiporenko
• 1998 Classic (Классик) as Gorsky
• 2003 And in the Morning They Woke Up (А поутру они проснулись)
• 2005 The Fall of the Empire (Гибель империи) as Paul von Rennenkampf
• 2006 Soviet Park (Парк советского периода) as Divisional Commander Chapayev
• 2009 Attack on Leningrad (Ленинград) as captain of artillery
• 2010 What Men Talk About (О чём говорят мужчины) as captain of the ship
• 2018 The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (Крымский мост. Сделано с любовью!) as Talib Nazirovich
• 2021 The Crying Steppe as Filipp Goloshchyokin

Honours and awards

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) – the incarnation of images in contemporary cinema
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991) – for his contribution in the development of Soviet cinema
• Prize at the Constellation / Sozvezdie film festival in Tver (1999) for the best male lead in "Classic"
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2001) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
• Main prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the best diploma director's work - the movie "Petruhina name"
• International literary award named after Sergei Yesenin "On Russia, wave your wings ..." in the "Film, Theatre, Television" (2010)
• Order of Honour (2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
• Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017) – for great contribution to the development of national culture and art, media, and many years of fruitful activity
• Stanislavsky Award (2021) – for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of K. S. Stanislavski