Actor Yuri Kayurov: biography, family, films

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Soviet and later Russian actor Yuri Kayurov was born in Cherepovets, Vologda region (1927-30-09). In 1979 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. The actor has been repeatedly awarded government awards of various categories. Consider the biography of this honored stage figure, who continues to serve as Melpomene at the Moscow Maly Theater, despite his advanced age.

Short biography

• Mother - Olga Alekseevna (1900-1977).
• Father - Ivan Dmitrievich (1896-1941).
• Wife - Valentina Leonidovna (born in 1928), a dentist by training.
• Son - Leonid Yurievich (b. 1956). He began his acting career after graduating from VGIK, and successfully, but then he changed his creative profession to a spiritual dignity (serves as a deacon).
• Zodiac sign is Libra.
• Working area - cinema and theater.

Difficult childhood

Actor Yuri Kayurov grew up in the Vologda region, many generations of his family were hereditary peasants. The artist's father and mother also began their working life, doing agriculture. Later, due to a series of circumstances, they ended up in Cherepovets, then in Tikhvin.

Ivan Dmitrievich in these cities worked as a stateemployee. In 1937, he was repressed, put in prison, which was located in the former Tikhvin Monastery. The mother left two children in her arms, she worked as a teacher in a kindergarten. Father came out of prison in 1939, miraculously avoiding execution. After the outbreak of the war, Ivan Dmitrievich went to defend his homeland and soon died defending Tikhvin.

War years

After the loss of his father, the future actor Yuri Kayurov became the eldest man in the family. Leaving school in the seventh grade, he enters a vocational school, which was eventually evacuated to Vologda. In 1944, the guy gets a job as a turner at the Leningrad Vulkan plant. The main occupation at the plant is the turning of shells of mines and shells for the front. The artist himself wanted to get to the front line faster. As a result, he enters the Kuibyshev Naval Aviation School.

Yuri met the victory of the Soviet troops over the Nazis at a military post in Kuibyshev. He ended his service in Leningrad (commander on the famous cruiser "Aurora"). Yuri Ivanovich was demobilized in 1949, after which he applied to the Ostrovsky Theater Institute. Kayurov thought about the acting profession during his service, accidentally getting into a theater studio, where he enrolled without far-reaching plans. However, the stage classes so captivated the young man that he seriously began to think about an acting career.

Studying at the theater institute

Yuri Ivanovich Kayurov enters the university immediately for the second year thanks to the experience gained at the theater school. Hefalls into the class of the legendary actress of the Pushkin theater (E. Time) and Professor Serebryakov. At the institute, a not very educated guy received the support and care of intelligent teachers, who opened up a completely different and wonderful world for him.

Several roles became the student's graduation work, namely: Maria's father in The Living Corpse, Pyaterkin in Vassa Zheleznova and participation in Korneichuk's play Plato Krechet. The artist successfully passed the final exams in 1952, after which he was invited to work at the Drama Theater named after Karl Marx (in Saratov).

First theatrical roles

In Saratov, Yuri Kayurov, who is known to many for the film "Walking Through the Torments", worked for 15 years. During this time, he managed to play a huge number of stage images. He participated both in the productions of contemporary authors and in classical performances. Among all the variety, the following works can be noted:

• Arbuzov's play "Years of Wanderings" - Vedernikov.
• The main role in "My poor Marat".
• "Optimistic Tragedy" by Vishnevsky - Alexey.
• "Ocean" by Stein-Chasovnikov.
• "Dowry" - Karandyshev.
• "Guilty without guilt" - Neznamov.
• Zykovs by Gorky - Mikhail.

The Saratov Theater at that time gathered a unique troupe, which included V. Dvorzhetsky, A. Vysotsky, Shutova, Salnikov, Muratov and others. This stellar ensemble was led by N. Bondarev, who remains one of the artist's favorite theater directors.

Work inMaly Theater

Working back in Saratov, actor Yuri Kayurov came to Moscow. He decided to visit the Maly Theatre, where the Leningrad team toured at that time. The artist really wanted to see the new productions of the troupe, where he was brought up and grew professionally while he was studying. Turning to the administrator for a pass, the actor heard that they had been waiting for him here for a long time.

It turned out that the leaders of the Maly Theater noticed the work of Yuri Kayurov in the role of Lenin (the film "Through the icy mist"). The premiere performance was the production of "John Reed". After that, he was invited to work at the Maly Theater (1967), where Yuri Ivanovich has been a leading artist for over 30 years. On this stage, the artist created a lot of classical images in productions based on the works of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Ostrovsky. Now the actor lives and works in the capital of Russia.

Yuri Kayurov: films

In 1961, the artist of the Saratov small theater was offered the role of young Lenin in the film "At the Beginning of the Century". The next film in the same role - "Through the icy mist" (1965). In the future, Kayurov repeatedly played the leader of the world proletariat. This image of the actor is embodied in the following pictures:

• "Lenin in Paris" (1981).
• Film "The Pain" (1977).
• "Post novel", "Kremlin chimes" (1970).
• Exodus, The Sixth of July (1968).

Part of the rest of the artist's filmography:

• "The Lost Expedition" (the role of Volzhin).
• "Golden River".
• "Flame"(Lagoon).
• "White snow of Russia".
• "Pronchat Engineer".
• "Bribe".
• "My Anfisa".
• "Chief Designer".
• "Petersburg secrets" and others.

Interesting facts

Actor Yu. I. Kayurov has received many awards. Among them:

• Honorary title People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• USSR State Prize (twice).
• Stanislavsky Award.
• Chevalier of the Orders of Honor, the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, the October Revolution.

The artist devotes his free time to music and reading classical literature.

Kayurov's birthday symbolically falls on the name day of Faith, Hope and Love. An interesting story related to the work of the actor is connected with this. As the artist himself noted, he enters the stage so that the viewer feels love for the world around him for a while, has hope for the best and the belief that his expectations will come true.