UViktor Grigoryevich Il'ichev, wazalelwa eLeningrad ngoFebruwari 5, 1946. Lapho eseyingane, uViktor wafunda esikhungweni sezingane esiseTheatre. Umkhandlu waseLeningrad City. Ngo-1967 waphumelela kumqondisi wezemidlalo uGeorgy Tovstonogov eLeningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema futhi wayengomunye wabafundi abaqedile kakhulu kumqondisi odumile. Ngonyaka ofanayo waba umlingisi weLeninsky Theatre okuthiwa yiMkhandlu waseLeningrad City, wase esebenza eTheatre. Komissarzhevskaya. U-Ilyichev unemisebenzi eminingana emitapo ohlwini lwakhe: Alyosha (Horse Przewalski), de Jussac (The Three Musketeers).
Ngemva kokuphothula iziqu, ngo-1968 uVictor ngobusuku obugubha e-WTO kuNevsky Prospekt wahlangana nomfundi osemncane oqeqeshwe yiVaganovsk School Svetlana, abashada naye ngonyaka futhi bahlala ndawonye ukuze baphile.
Umsebenzi wefilimu kaViktor Grigoryevich waqala ngesikhathi esifundweni sakhe ngo-1966, wabhekana nesiqephu sefilimu ethi "Omdala Udadewethu." Kusukela ngo-1977, usebenza njengomdlali we-Lenfilm studios. Kumele kuqashelwe ukuthi kuze kube manje uke waba namafilimu angu-13 futhi indima eyinhloko kwifilimu ethi "Ukuphila Komuntu siqu kaZuzyaev Valentine" ngaphansi kokuqondiswa kuka-Ilya Averbakh no-Igor Maslennikov, le filimu ibhekwa abaningi ukuba babe umsebenzi wakhe omuhle kakhulu. Ingqikithi ifilimu ye-actor ithatha ama-81 emidwebo. Wasebenza okuningi kuma-studios eMoscow, e-Odessa, eLeningrad nakwamanye amadolobha, waba ngumculi ofanelwe we-RSFSR, angabizwa ngokuthi umculi kazwelonke ngezinga lokuqashelwa nokudumeka ngaphandle kwe-conscience ye-conscience. Phakathi kwamafilimu ase-Ilyichev kukhona izigcawu ezidume kakhulu nezithandwayo zezilaleli zaseRussia, njenge "Inja E-Manger" (1977, indima yenceku Fabio); "Thembela ukuthi kuqhuma" (1983, edlalwe nguRufus); "UVictor Glushakov - umngane we-Apaches" (ngo-1983, enendima kaGennady Stepanovich); "Genius" (1991, edlalwe nguMakar); "The Chronicle of the Dive Bomber" (1967, esikhundleni se-Osadchy); "Fraka for the Shoal" (1979, uGeorgia Myakishev's syglal); "Umhloli GAI" (1982, indima ye-Andrianov); "I-Green Van" (ngo-1983, idlala i-Fedka Byka).
Ngo-1995, ngenxa yezinkinga zemali nezinye izinto ezivusa amadlingozi zaseRussia, uViktor Grigoryevich wahamba nomkakhe uSvetlana Osiyeva, owayengumdlali we-ballerina weMaryinsky Theatre nomntwana wakhe uMichael e-US (iBoca Raton, eFlorida). UmkaVictor wabiza esikoleni se-ballet. E-United States, uVictor wabhekana nokuntuleka kwesidingo sokuba ngumlingisi: wayengamenywanga eRussia, futhi kwakungeke kwenzeke ukuthi afike eHollywood ngaphandle kolwazi oluphelele lolimi. Noma kunjalo, umlingisi akazange alahlekelwe ukuziqhenya kwakhe, akazange aqale ukushintshanisa zonke izinhlobo zezindima ezincane futhi wathola umsebenzi ongaxhunyiwe nobuciko. Eminyakeni eyishumi emva kokuhamba, u-Ilyichev wamenywa ngumqondisi u-Anatoly Eyramdzhan ukuba athole izinkanyezi ezinkampanini ezintathu eziphansi zesabelomali - "Brave Reflex", "Umshado emahoreni angu-24" nangokuthi "Ngaphandle Kokuphula uMthetho", le filimu yayiyisikhathi sokugcina kuViktor Grigorievich ngo-2004. Njengoba u-Eyramdzhan ngokwakhe ekugcineni wathi, "Nganelisekile ngakho, wadlala ngaphandle kokungabaza", kodwa izimali zala mafilimu nazo zazinamabhasi aphansi-2000-3000. Ngesikhathi u-Ilyicheva emenywa ukudubula futhi ngonyaka ka-Anatoly Eyramdzhan, umdlali wecala wacela ukukhokhela umsebenzi wakhe kancane kancane futhi wenqatshwa, futhi akazange avele efilimu ethi "Isipho Sokuphila".
Ngo-2010, umlingisi wathola umdlavuza, lesi sifo sasesimweni sokunganakwa. Wazama ukuphathwa esibhedlela e-University of Miami, lapho kwenziwa khona imisebenzi eminingi eyinkimbinkimbi. Ngesinye isikhathi odokotela bathola izidakamizwa, ukwelashwa kwaba ize, ukuphulukisa uVictor Ilyichev ngeshwa kwahluleka. Wafa ngo-Okthoba 8, 2010, eneminyaka engu-65 edolobheni elincane laseBoca Raton ogwini oluseningizimu-mpumalanga yeFlorida.