Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov is a Soviet and Bulgarian theater and film actor, best known to the audience for his role as Jules Verne in the Soviet-Bulgarian multi-part television adventure film directed by Stanislav Govorukhin "In Search of Captain Grant" (1985). Graduated from LGITMiK in 1965 (Boris Zon's workshop). He was an actor in the Leningrad Theater of the Lenin Komsomol. In 1967 he married a Bulgarian student Silvia Spasova and