Stanislav Lyubshin (born 1933) is a revered Soviet and Russian actor and director, awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1981. Trained at the Shchepkin School, he became a pillar of the Moscow Art Theatre after working at the Sovremennik and Taganka theatres. His cinematic fame exploded in 1968 when he played the spy Alexander Belov in the cult series Shchit i mech (The Shield and the Sword), a role that made him one of the biggest stars in the USSR. His filmography is marked by introspective and intelligent performances, including the protagonist of the Thaw-era symbolic film I Am Twenty (1965), the engineer in Five Evenings (1978), and the unforgettable "Proarab" Mashkov in the sci-fi cult comedy Kin-dza-dza! (1986).