Valentin Pluchek

 ( Place Of Birth Missing ) 

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek (; real name Isaak Nokhimovich Gintsburg, ; 4 September 1909 – 17 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian theater director and actor. He is known as a stage director of the Physical Culture Day parade in Moscow during the Stalinist epoch.Edelman, R. Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State. page 100 The Physical Culture Day took place each summer at central squares of major Soviet cities. Peter Brook's cousin. Русский англичанин Питер Брук

Pluchek worked with the director Vsevolod Meyerhold until he was arrested and shot in 1940, and then worked with the playwright Aleksei Arbuzov. In 1950, he joined the "often-daring" Moscow Satire Theatre in 1950, and rose to chief director in 1957.

• Two Orders of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1945, 1985)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1956) Владимир Дуров — В МИРЕ ЦИРКА И ЭСТРАДЫ
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964) Театральная энциклопедия (под ред. П. А. Маркова)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1974)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1979)
• Order of Lenin (1986)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (1999)
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"