Nikolai Slichenko

Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko (; 27 December 1934 — 2 July 2021) was a Soviet and Russian singer and actor. He was the chief director of the Romen Theatre in Moscow. He was the only Romani person to be honored with the People's Artist of the USSR (1981).
In May 2021, Slichenko was hospitalized in Moscow for respiratory failure. He died on 2 July 2021 in Moscow, aged 86.