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Ivan Dobronravov

Russian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ203653 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ivan Fyodorovich Dobronravov (Russian: Иван Фёдорович Добронравов; born 2 June 1989) is a Russian actor best known for his lead role in the 2003 film The Return. His father is actor Fyodor Dobronravov.

Filmography

The Return (2003)

Crush (2009)

Home (2011)

Moms (2012)

Judas (2013)

Ekaterina (2014)

The Method (2015)

Buy Me (2018)

Has Anyone Seen My Girl?

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“Ivan Dobronravov” enters the record as russian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ivan, Dobronravov and Russian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2003, 2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1989-06-02, 1989-07-02—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ivan, Dobronravov and Russian.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q203653. VIAF identifies the subject as 165305699. The Library of Congress control number is no2005028129. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2003, 2009 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ivan Dobronravov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.