Yury Alexandrovich Kuznetsov

Yury Alexandrovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Кузнецо́в; born September 3, 1946) is a Russian film and theatre actor, recipient of the Meritorious Artist award of Russia.

Biography

Yury Kuznetsov was born on September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Khakass Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.^[1] In 1969, he graduated from the acting department of the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute (ru) in Vladivostok. He started a theatrical career and was a member of the following institutions:

• 1969 — 1979: Khabarovsk Drama
• 1979 — 1986: Omsk Drama Theater (ru)
• 1986 — 1999: Leningrad Theatre of Comedy (ru)

He received the award of Meritorious Artist in 2006.

Selected films

• 1984: My Friend Ivan Lapshin - Superintendent
• 1990: Afghan Breakdown - Shchup
• 1997: Brother - Nemets (the German)
• 2002: Antikiller
• 2006: The Island - Tikhon
• 2009: Tsar (film) - Malyuta Skuratov

References

Sources

• Yury Kuznetsov at the Internet Movie Database
• Kynoslovar. Т.2. Vol.2. Ed., 2001. - P.94-95.