Actor
Active 1958–present · Awards: Order of the Red Star, Medal "For Battle Merit", People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Merited Artist of the RSFSR, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Victory over Japan", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Pavel Vasilyevich Rudakov was a Soviet musician and film actor, the member of the estrada duet of Rudakov & Nechayev, which was popular in the 1950s. He was the Merited Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1961).