ALEXANDER KOCHUBEI

The Actor's Story

Alexander Kochubei plays two roles in Ivan Petrovich. He plays Semyon Podsekalnikov from Nikolai Erdman's classic tragicomedy The Suicide. But he also plays the character of Ivan Petrovich from a song of that name, written by Oksana Mysina (lyrics) and Dmitry Yershov (music), both members of the rock band Oxy Rocks. 

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Alexander Kochubei was born in the Orenburg region of Russia, where the spectacular surrounding nature and a loving grandfather made of him a lifelong nature enthusiast. In his youth he also became enamoured of theater, taking his first steps on stage in a local folk theater. He graduated from Moscow’s Film Academy in 1998, having studied with the great Russian film director Marlen Khutsiev. In theater, Kochubei has worked in Moscow for the Contemporary Play School and the Bogis Theater Agency. He made his cinema debut in 1997, and has since performed in over 30 films. His love for film and nature came together in 2005 when he approached the Hunting and Fishing (Okhoto i rybalka) Channel with a proposal to initiate Russia’s first-ever program about spearfishing. The resulting series, The Underwater World of Russia, drew back the curtain on the amazing underwater worlds in Russia’s ponds, lagoons, rivers, lakes and seas. 

Over the years, Alexander Kochubei has hosted several series, including, Spearfishing, Spearfishing with Alexander Kochubei, How Our Grandfathers Hunted, Hunting in East Prussia, Riddles of the Silver Carp, Sea Spearfishing, and others. In all he has produced over 400 programs about hunting and fishing. Kochubei has his own YouTube channel, where the top videos grab viewers in the hundreds of thousands.