The cause of the artist's death was not disclosed.
The farewells will take place on Friday, October 15th.
“He was capable of a variety of images, different and dissimilar characters, and he moved on stage at any age in such a way that he could easily give a head start to the young,” the theater said.
Dolzhenkov played several dozen roles in Russian films and TV series.
Among the most famous are "Zemsky Doctor", "Eternal Call", "Boris Godunov", "Primordial Rus", "Walking Through the Torments", "Kuprin" and "Love in Russian - 2".
The artist came to the "Theater in the South-West" in 1994, reports Nation News.
Earlier it was reported that Svetlana Mizeri, People's Artist of the RSFSR, had died.