Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (born April 25, 1928 in Moscow) was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film actors. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

In the 1960s and 1970s Yakovlev's career was varied and interesting, his roles ranging from Stiva Oblonsky in the classic Soviet adaptation of Anna Karenina (1968) to the paranoically jealous Ippolit in another of Ryazanov's comedies, Irony of Fate (1975). His participation in a series of films on the WWII won him the USSR State Prize for 1979.

Yakovlev enjoyed perhaps his greatest popular acclaim in Leonid Gaidai's screening of Mikhail Bulgakov's egregiously funny Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Occupation (aka Back to the Future, 1973). His film career effectively came to a halt after Georgi Daneliya's sci-fi extravaganza Kin-Dza-Dza, in which he appeared alongside Yevgeny Leonov. He still works in the Vakhtangov Theatre, however.

External links

• Yury Yakovlev in IMDB database
• Yakovlev's son Anton in IMDB database
• Yakovlev on the Vakhtangov Theatre Homepage

Russian actors Soviet actors | 1928 births | Living people People's Artists of the USSR

Яковлев, Юрий Васильевич