Andrey Panin

On March 6, 2013, Andrey was found dead at his apartment at Balaklavsky Prospekt, in the south of Moscow, around 11 am. Blood loss due to severe craniocerebral trauma was called as the preliminary cause of death and his death first considered to be accidental, it thought that he fell that lead to deathly trauma. Forensic experts who examined Panin's body came to the conclusion that he got his injury in a fight as the origin wasn't typical for accidental falling. His face was broken into the blood, the right eye was closed from a pronounced paraorbital hematoma, abrasions were found on the knuckles of his fingers, hematomas in the region of the knee joints, and glass fragments were found in the wounds. Panin, most likely, resisted and wounded the murderer. Traces of blood, a mess throughout the apartment, shifted furniture in the apartment also are signs of a fight. Strange sounds and moans were heard by his neighbors but they didn't pay proper attention to it. Farewell to Panin was held on March 12, 2013 at the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. After the civil funeral, a funeral service was held in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Troekurov. Panin was buried at the Troekurov cemetery. His murder remains unsolved.

Panin was rocketed to fame by the hit television detective show "Kamenskaya. " In 2000, he had lead roles in both Valery Akhadov's "Don't Offend the Women" and Pavel Lugin's "Wedding," as well as Alexander Atanesyan's action thriller "24 Hours. " He won the best actor prize at the Golden Ram film festival for his part in "Wedding. " Panin made his first screen appearance in the movie "Straightway," but it was his performances in Maxim Pezhemsky's "Mama, Don't Cry" and Denis Yevstigneev's "Mama" that brought the actor renown. Before becoming a screen regular, he was a stage actor at the Minusinsky theater, where he worked after graduating from the Culture Institute in Kemerovo.

Honored Artist of Russia (April 18, 1999) for merits in the field of art.

Had three children: a daughter Nadezhda Panina (b. 1993) with his ex-wife Tatyana Frantsuzova; two sons, Aleksandr Panin (b. 2001) and Pyotr Panin (b. 2008), with his widowed wife Natalya Rogozhkina.