Yury Solomin

Yury Solomin studied at M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre School. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is film, theatre and politics. Employment is recorded with Maly Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class, Order of Honour, People's Artist of the USSR and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class.

• Name — Yury Solomin • Born — 18 June 1935 • Birthplace — Chita, East Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR • Died — 11 January 2024 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Years Active — 1957–2024 • Spouse — Olga Nikolaevna Solomina (1931–2019) • Children — One daughter

Solomin studied at the Malyi Theatre School and joined its troupe in 1957. He was acclaimed as Khlestakov in Igor Ilyinsky's production of The Government Inspector (1966), Tsar Feodor in Tsar Feodor Ioannovich (1976), Slavin in TASS Is Authorized to Declare... TV series (1984), Nicholas II in Az Vosdam... (1990), and Famusov in his own production of Woe from Wit (2000). Solomin was cast as a Russian imperial officer in many Soviet movies, including Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (1975), which won him a Japanese decoration for the outstanding contribution to the world culture (1993). • Illustration — Solomin and Kirill Lavrov (2005) Solomin served as the Russian Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1992. On 11 March 2014, he signed the appeal of culture of the Russian Federation in support of the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and Crimea. In December 2015, he supported the policy of Putin with respect to Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea. In February 2022, he supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His younger brother Vitaly Solomin (1941–2002) was also a noted actor. Yury Solomin died of kidney failure on 11 January 2024, at the age of 88.

• Sleepless Night (1960) as Pavel Kaurov • A Mother's Heart (1965) as Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov • A Mother's Devotion (1966) as Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov • Strong with Spirit (1967) as Major Martin von Güttel • Spring on the Oder (1967) as Captain Aleksandr Meshchersky • The Red Tent (1969) as Troiani • The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969) as Captain Pavel Andreyevich Koltsov • Dauria (1971) as Semyon Nagorny, Bolshevik blacksmith • The Fourth (1972) as Charles Howard • Sokolovo (1974) as General Shafarenko • Dersu Uzala (1975) as Vladimir Arsenyev • Melodies of a White Night (1976) as Ilya, composer-conductor • School Waltz (1978) as Pavel Knushevitsky, Zosya's father • An Ordinary Miracle (1978) as Emil the innkeeper • Die Fledermaus (1979) as Heinrich Eisenstein • Moon Rainbow (1983) as Nikolsky • The Shore of His Life (1984) as Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay • TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984) as Vitaly Vsevolodovich Slavin, KGB colonel • Sofia Kovalevskaya (1985) as Grand Duke • Singing Russia (1986) as Mitrofan Pyatnitsky • Anna Karamazoff (1991) as Colonel general • Dreams of Russia (1992) as Count Alexander Bezborodko • Moscow Saga (2004) as Boris Nikitich Gradov, doctor • Man of East (2008) as Vladimir Timofeyevich Rokotov, lieutenant general

Yury Solomin was recorded at birth as Юрий Мефодьевич Соломин. The authorities additionally record the headings Yury Mefodyevich Solomin and Yury Mefodievich Solomin. His recorded language was Russian.

Yury Solomin is recorded as having received Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class, Order of Honour and People's Artist of the USSR. Yury Solomin is recorded as actor, film director, theatre director, drama teacher and public figure.

Yury Solomin was born in 1935 at Chita.