Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, screenwriter and voice actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). In 2000, he became a theatre director of Moscow Satire Theatre.

The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute is a Russian drama college in Moscow, formed in 1914 as part of the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 2002 it was granted the Academy status.