working in theater on otaganka, leonid yarmolnik became friends not only with vladimir vysotsky, butany. how did you feel when they left almost one after another? i didn't feel anything. i felt that... in a sense, life was ending, at least mine, i’m not exaggerating at all, because to this day i can’t come to terms with it, that they don’t exist, oleg ivanovich yankovsky was a genius, a genius who he could pat him on the shoulder, could pin him, mock him, he at me, i at him, he was an incredible adviser to me, he not only taught me a profession, but taught me how to choose what is mine and not mine in this profession. oleg was the most boring artist from the point of view, when they agree to a proposal, he sometimes thought for months, yes or no, yes or no, read, thought about it, met with the director, i say, what do you have, chinese service, he hated chinese service, as for sasha, sasha was completely different abdullov, sasha my oldest friend, we were friends for 36 years, sashka was not very picky, sashka could act, he liked to work a lot, a lot of work, round the clock, sometim