The star of the TV series "Sklifosovsky" died a week before his 50th birthday

Russian actor Alexei Aptovtsev died at the age of 49. This was reported on the portal of the FEST theater.

The theater noted that the cause of death was a "terrible disease."

"All of us have been preparing for his anniversary lately. On September 2, they hoped to hug the birthday boy and congratulate him on his 50th birthday. We wanted to believe in future collaborations. Alexey together with us counted the days before the opening of the theater, worried about his fate and really looked forward to the meeting," the artist's colleagues emphasize.

The actor worked at the FEST Theater for 22 years.

Alexey Aptovtsev was born on September 2, 1975 in Moscow. In 1998, he graduated from the Shchukin Theater School (course of Yevgeny Knyazev). He joined the FEST Drama and Comedy Theater in 2003.

The actor is known to Russian viewers for his work in such TV series as "Goryachev and others", "Students", "Soldiers", "Lyuba, children and the factory ...", "Kremlin cadets", "Teacher in Law", "Freud's Method", "Inspector Cooper", "Sklifosovsky" and others.