 One of his favourite film roles was that of General Skobelev in "The Heroes of Shipka" (1955).After the Meyerhold theatre was disbanded, Samoilov moved to Nikolay Okhlopkov's Mayakovsky Theatre, where he would work until the director's death in 1967.His role of Oleg Koshevoy in the first stage version of "The Young Guard" won him another Stalin Prize.