Umrikhin Anatoly Aleksandrovich – theater and film actor, announcer, teacher.

Born on September 11, 1935, in Donetsk, Ukraine. He graduated from high school in 1952 and entered the Bakhchisarai Construction College, graduating in 1956. He then worked as a construction worker for two years. Throughout his studies and while working, he participated in various amateur productions. He decided to become an actor and enrolled in drama school. He studied in the same class as Andrei Mironov and Alexander Kalyagin. He first graduated from the acting department in 1962, and then, already an actor in drama theater, in 1973 he graduated from the directing department of the B. Shchukin Theatre School in Moscow.

Anatoly Umrikhin graduated with honors from the B. Shchukin Theatre School and was offered the chance to stay in Moscow. But he wanted to be with Eugenia Todorascu, his beloved, the woman he had chosen to share his life with and with whom they remained inseparable. Thus, he began working at the Luceafarul Theatre as a worker, and she as an actress. From 1962 to 1969, he was an actor at the A. Chekhov Russian Drama Theatre, and from 1969 to 1971, he was a national television announcer, voicing newsreels and documentaries and acting in films at the Moldova-Film studio. From 1971 to 1995, he again worked as an actor at the Chekhov Theatre. During this same period, he taught at the G. Muzichescu Institute of Arts. He has also directed plays for children and young people. In 1982 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Union of Young Scientists.

In 1995, when the theater's management decided to retire the actor, he went to work with his wife, E. Todorashko (who had left the theater with her husband in protest), teaching acting and stage speech at the theater lyceum. He was the chairman of the "Rampa" theater festival.
In January 2001, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Umrikhin passed away.

Filmography:
"Your Peer", 1963 - presenter,
" Sergei Lazo ", 1967 - officer,
"The Hottest August", 1969 - announcer,
" Lăutari ", 1971 - episode,
" And the Day Will Come ", 1979 - episode,
" Forget About Returning ", 1985 - staff officer,
" Quiet Outpost ", 1985 - collective farm chairman.