帕维尔·卢斯佩卡耶夫，Pavel Luspekaev was a legendary Russian/Armenian actor known as Vereshagin in Beloe solntse pustyni (1970). He was born Pavel Borisovich Luspekaev on April 20, 1927, in Lugansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Luhansk, Ukraine). His Armenian-born father, Boris Luspekaev, worked as a butcher, and his mother was a Russian Don Cossack.