Arkady Trofimovich Arkadyev (real name Kopytov, according to other sources - Kopylov) was born on February 21, 1913, Sarapul, Vyatskaya province, according to other sources on February 18, 1913, Bondyuzhsky settlement, now Tatarstan and died on November 21, 1988, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
He graduated from the 3rd year of the Sverdlovsk Music College (1937).
He worked in Severodvinsk, Perm. During the Great Patriotic War, an artist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Ural Military District (Sverdlovsk). Principle performer of the Voronezh Theater of Musical Comedy (Opera and Ballet Theater, 1945-1973). The main parts: Prince Orlovsky ("Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss), von Schwack ("Martin Rudocope" by Karl Zeller), Aristide Giraud ("Fraskita" by France Legard), Smurov ("Tobacco Captain" by Anton Eichenwald), Nazar Dumas ("Wedding in Malinovka" by Boris Alexandrov), Thomas, Caesar Gall, Peter Chumakov ( "Volny Veter","White Acacia" by Isaak Dunaevsky), Garbuz ("The Sevastopol Waltz" by Konstantin Listov), Pyotr Ilyich ("Margi" Igor Ipatov), Ivan Dmitrievich ("Mechta o slave" by Emmanuelle Hinkis) and others.
