Hnat Yura

Yuriy Velichko is recorded as having studied under Hnat Yura. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Employment is recorded with Kyiv National I. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Hnat Petrovych Yura • Born — January 8, 1888 • Birthplace — Fedvar, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — January 18, 1966 (aged 78) • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Actor, Director • Years Active — 1936-1958 (film)

Yura was born in village Fedvar (today Pidlisne). His stage experience started in 1904 within an amateur club, while his professional performance started in 1907 as part of the Maksymovych troupe. Before the World War I he emigrated to Austria-Hungary where in 1913–1914 performed as an actor at the Ruska Besida Association theater in Lemberg (Lviv). Soon after the start of World War I, Yura was a member of the "Molodyi Teatr" theatre (Les Kurbas troupe) located in Kiev. In 1919 "Molodyi Teatr" was added to the newly reformed First Theater of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic based on the State Drama Theater of Ukraine. In 1920 a group of former "Molodyi Theatre" led by Yura joined "Novyi Lvivskyi Teatr", which in Vinnytsia was reformed into the Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre, and for a few years (1920–1923) toured Ukraine.

• Prometheus (1936) • Cossacks Beyond the Danube (1937) • Shchors (1939) • Taras Shevchenko (1951) • The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1952) • Martin Borulya (1953)