Yury Yakovlev
Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
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Yury Yakovlev

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- Name
- Yury Yakovlev
- Birth Name
- Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev
- Born
- 25 April 1928
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Died
- 30 November 2013
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russia
- Occupation
- Actor
- Spouse
- * Kira Machulskaya
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Education
- Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
- Honours
- USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
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Yury Yakovlev (1928–2013) was an actor, memoirist and writer, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The actor was born and died in Moscow.
Yury Yakovlev was educated at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The actor worked for Vakhtangov Theatre and was a member of Russian Academy of Arts.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Figaro Award, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and Order of Lenin, among others.
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Biography
Biography
Yury Yakovlev studied at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Vakhtangov Theatre. Distinctions recorded are USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and People's Artist of the USSR.

Эльдар Рязанов и актеры Валентин Абрамов, Юрий Белов, Юрий Яковлев и Сергей Юрский на съемках фильма "Человек ниоткуда". 1961 год
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![(в источнике) Юрий Яковлев слушает радиоприёмник в перерывах съёмок фильма "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию" (фактически) переносной магнитофон National RQ-158S [1]. Простой на вид монофонический прибор с наибольшей скоростью 9.5 см/c имел автореверс ("авто" при наличии проводящих наклеек на ленте)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Yury_Yakovlev_with_radio.jpg/800px-Yury_Yakovlev_with_radio.jpg)
(в источнике) Юрий Яковлев слушает радиоприёмник в перерывах съёмок фильма "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию" (фактически) переносной магнитофон National RQ-158S [1]. Простой на вид монофонический прибор с наибольшей скоростью 9.5 см/c имел автореверс ("авто" при наличии проводящих наклеек на ленте)
Igor Gnevashev · Mos.ru
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Yury Yakovlev • Birth Name — Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev • Born — 25 April 1928 • Birthplace — Moscow, Soviet Union • Died — 30 November 2013 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Resting Place — Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1952–2013 • Title — People's Artist of the USSR (1976) • Spouse — * Kira Machulskaya • Ekaterina Raikina • Irina Sergeeva
Main works
Main works
Yury Yakovlev is best known for his roles in late Soviet film, particularly for his roles in Eldar Ryazanov's and Leonid Gaidai's comedies. Yakovlev's most popular comedic roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films are Poruchik Rzhevsky in Hussar Ballad (1962), Ippolit in The Irony of Fate (1976), and the comic roles of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his namesake Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha in Leonid Gaidai's comedy Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973). He also played dramatic roles, such as inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in The Idiot (1958), and other cinema roles (Dangerous turn, Earthly Love movies). He was the leading artist of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre during its heyday.
The early years
The early years
From a young age he was fond of acting and theatre. At the turn of the 1940s, he studied acting at Shchukin Theatrical School of Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow starting to work as an actor at Vakhtangov Theatre.
Theatrical career
Theatrical career
Yakovlev joined the ensemble of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in 1952. He played over seventy roles onstage, including Casanova in Three Ages of Casanova, Duke Bolingbroke in Glass of Water, and Prokofiev in Lessons of Master.
Film career
Film career
• Illustration — Yakovlev in 2008 Yakovlev became really famous as a cinema actor in 1958, after his inimitable, complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in The Idiot directed by Ivan Pyryev. He achieved international fame playing the role as Prince Myshkin. Yakovlev made his first appearance in an Eldar Ryazanov comedy in 1961, in The Man From Nowhere. Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances in Ryazanov's comedies, most notably splendid film the Hussar Ballad in 1962, in which he played phantasmagoric role of Poruchik Rzhevsky. The feature was such a resounding success that Rzhevsky's character gave rise to innumerable Russian jokes. In the 1960s and 1970s, Yakovlev branched out into further various roles, from the nobleman Stiva Oblonsky in the 1967 adaptation, the classic Soviet movie adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, directed by Alexander Zarkhi, to jealous fiancé Ippolit in Ryazanov's The Irony of Fate. Perhaps his most famous roles were the tsar Ivan the Terrible and his namesake Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha in Leonid Gaidai's 1973 comedy Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future – the movie about the travel using the time machine (based on the play Ivan Vasilievich (play) by Mikhail Bulgakov).
Decline in popularity
Decline in popularity
His participation in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny" – a series of movies about the World War II brought him the USSR State Prize for 1979. His film career effectively came to a halt after the role of the alien Bi in Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 sci-fi comedy Kin-dza-dza! where he starred alongside Yevgeny Leonov and Stanislav Lyubshin. The last role in Ikno was the role in the film The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония судьбы. Продолжение) as Ippolit Georgievich.
Death
Death
Yakovlev felt ill in early morning of 29 November 2013. He soon fainted in his home. He was rushed to the Moscow hospital where he died there on 30 November 2013 from heart failure, aged 85. On the same day, the death of Yuri Yakovlev was reported by RIA Novosti to Times.am 'with reference to the theater's press service. RIA News posted that day the information:
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• 1953: The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (') as Warrior • 1956: Early Joys (Первые радости) as Vasily Dibich, lieutenant • 1957: No Ordinary Summer (Необыкновенное лето) as Vasily Dibich, lieutenant • 1957: Pervye radosti as Dibich (uncredited) • 1958: The Idiot (Идиот) as Prince Myshkin • 1958: Wind (Ветер) as Leonid Zakrewsky, lieutenant • 1959: Gorod na zare as Altman • 1959: Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате) as narrator (uncredited) • 1960: Zare navstrechu as Pyotr Sapozhkov • 1961: Nowhere Man (Человек ниоткуда) as Vladimir Porazhaev • 1962: Hussar Ballad (Гусарская баллада) as Lieutenant Dmitry Rzhevsky • 1963: Bolshaya doroga as Polivanov • 1964: Summer Is Over as Narrator (voice, uncredited) • 1964: An Easy Life (Легкая жизнь) as Alexander P. Bochkin, underground businessman • 1964: Russkiy les as German Officer Walter Kittel • 1966: Beware of the Car (Берегись автомобиля) as narrator (voice) • 1966: Friends and Years (Друзья и годы) as Yuri Derzhavin • 1967: A Pistol Shot (Выстрел) as count • 1967: Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) as Stiva Oblonsky • 1968: Crash (Крах) as Andrey Pavlovich Fyodorov • 1969: Subject for a Short Story as Potapenko • 1970: Korol-olen as Deramo • 1970: Sinyaya ptitsa (voice) • 1972: The Seagull (Чайка) as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin, writer • 1972: Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники) as narrator (voice) • 1973: Skhvatka as Joachim • 1973: Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию) as Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha, building superintendent • 1973: Much Ado About Nothing (Много шума из ничего) (TV Movie) (uncredited) • 1975: Earthly Love (Любовь земная) as Tikhon Bruchanov, Secretary of district committee of Communist Party • 1975: The Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) (TV Mini-Series) as Ippolit Georgievich • 1977: Destiny (Судьба) as Tikhon Bruchanov, Secretary of district committee of Communist Party • 1978: Yuliya Vrevskaya as Nikolai Nikolaevich • 1978: Pravo pervoy podpisi as Narrator (voice) • 1979: Barkhatnyy sezon • 1980: Poema o krylyakh as Igor Sikorskiy • 1981: An Ideal Husband (Идеальный муж) as Sir Robert Chiltern • 1982: Carnival (Карнавал) as Mikhail Solomatin, father of Nina • 1982: Beshenye dengi as Ivan Telyatyev • 1986: Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!) as Bee – the wandering Patsak singer • 1986: Vremya synovey • 1987: Levsha • 1987: Izbrannik sudby as Narrator (voice) • 1988: Shtany • 1988: Treasure Island as Ben Gunn (voice) • 1990: A Trap for Lonely Man as Police inspector • 1991: Sem dney posle ubiystva • 1992: Plashchanitsa Aleksandra Nevskogo • 1992: Tantsuyushchiye prizraki • 1992: Gardemarines-III (Гардемарины-III) as Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin • 1992: Davayte bez fokusov!... as Ot avtora • 1993: Children of Iron Gods (Дети чугунных богов) as general • 1993: Supermen ponevole ili eroticheskiy mutant • 1999: East/West as Vieil Homme Kommonalka • 2007: The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония судьбы. Продолжение) as Ippolit Georgievich (final film role)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev. His recorded language was Russian. He married Catherine Raikina, Kira Machulskaya and Irina Sergeeva. 3 children are recorded: Alyona Yakovleva, Aleksey Yakovlev and Anton Yakovlev.
Identity
Identity
Yury Yakovlev is recorded with the occupation memoirist. Recorded as having received USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Life and career
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1928
Yury Yakovlev was born on 25 April 1928.
2013
Yury Yakovlev died on 30 November 2013.
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Honors and awards
• Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts • Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961) • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1968) • People's Artist of the USSR (1976) • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland": • 2nd class (10 June 2008) – for outstanding contributions to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts, many years of creative activity • 3rd class (17 October 1996) – for services to the State and outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical arts • Order of Lenin (1988) • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1978) • USSR State Prize (1979) – for his role Tikhon Ivanovich Bryukhanova in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny" • Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1970) – for his performance as Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov in the play "The Wise Man Stumbles" by Alexander Ostrovsky • State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1994 (29 May 1995) – for the performance of the State Academic Theatre named Eugene. Vakhtangov "Guilty Without Guilt" on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky • Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2003 (13 February 2004) – for outstanding creative and scientific contribution to the artistic culture of Russia • Golden Mask Awards, awarded with "Silver Mask" for best actor (Salvador Allende, "Unfinished Dialogue") (1976) • Gold Medal for AP Dovzhenko film Destiny (1978) • Crystal Turandot Award (1998) • Prize of the business community, "Idol" for high service to art (1999) • Chekhov Medal (2010)
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- 1.Lenta.ru. Скончался актёр Юрий Яковлев. 30 November 2013.
- 2.KM.RU. Ушёл из жизни народный артист СССР Юрий Яковлев. 30 November 2013.
- 3.Peter Rollberg. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. 281–283. 2009. 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- 4.Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service. BELOVED RUSSIAN ACTOR YURI YAKOVLEV DIES AT AGE OF 85 Article BELOVED RUSSIAN ACTOR YURI YAKOVLEV DIES AT AGE OF 85 (02.12.2013) RUSSKIY MIR FOUNDATION. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/19 (19 January 2021)
- 5.Биография Юрия Яковлева
- 6.TIMES. USSR People's Artist Yury Yakovlev died in the hospital Times.am Retrieved 2021/01/20 (20 January 2021)
- 7.RIA News. Theater and film actor Yuri Yakovlev died RIA News. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/20 (20 January 2021)
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Recognition and collections. Yakovlev received USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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