Career
He was awarded People"s Artist of Russia in 1999. Vladimir Ilyin was born in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1969 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theatre School (course F Grigoryan).
He worked in the theater "Buffoon" under the direction of G. Yudenich in Kazan Youth Theater.
From 1974 to 1989 he worked in the theater named after Vl. Mayakovsky led by A. Goncharov.