{{Short description|Russian actor}} {{Family name hatnote|Nikolayevich|Chernov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Yuri Chernov | native_name = Юрий Чернов | native_name_lang = ru | image = Chernov U. 20250729 210853.jpg | caption = Chernov in 2025 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|04|24}} | birth_place = Kuybishev, RSFSR, USSR | occupation = {{hlist|actor|theatre teacher}} | years_active = 1968–present | awards = People's Artist of Russia | spouse = Valentina | children = 2 | alma_mater = Russian Institute of Theatre Arts }}
'''Yury Nikolayevich Chernov''' ({{langx|ru|Юpий Никoлаeвич Чернов}}; born 24 April 1949) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia (1994), and People's Artist of Russia (2008).<ref name="1783-1994">{{cite web | url = http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/ros/4733/bio | title = Юрий Чернов | language= ru | website = kino-teatr.ru| access-date = 18 November 2020 }}</ref>
== Biography == Chernov was born on 24 April 1949 in the city of Kuibyshev. He graduated from the Moscow Circus School and GITIS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womanhit.ru/psychology/family/657627-yuriy-chernov-nam-naznachili-brakosochetanie-napervoe-aprelya.html|publisher=womanhit|title=Юрий Чернов: «Нам назначили бракосочетание на первое апреля» |first1=Ekaterina |last1=Koresheva|language=ru|trans-title=Yuri Chernov: "We were scheduled to get married on April 1"|website=WomanHit.ru|date=28 March 2014}}</ref>
Chernov made his film debut in 1968 in the film ''We'll Live Till Monday'', where he played a high school student, Syromyatnikov. He has acted in film since.
In 1969, he was already approved by the director Vladimir Motyl on the role Petrukha who later became a very popular Soviet action movie ''White Sun of the Desert'', but Chernov chose the circus.
He played in the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, and since 1994, at the Theater of the Moon. Since 2004, he has been an actor of the theater "School of Modern Drama".
From 1995 to 2000, he was a co-host of the game show Wheel of History.
In 1999, together with other well-known artists Victor Merezhko and composer Yevgeny Bednenko, he participated in the project ''Sing the stars of theater and cinema'', where he performed as a singer. The project resulted in concerts and music CDs, released in the United States and dubbed by the Radio MPS.
In addition to film, Chernov acted in the comic newsreels ''Fitil'' and ''Yeralash'' and was one of the hosts of the popular children's television program ''Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!''.
He works actively for the Society of the Disabled and is engaged in publishing. He teaches at the Institute of Folk Art (guitar, harmonica, vocals).
Since 2013, he is an actor at the Theater of Satire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tele.ru/stars/private-life/yuriy-chernov-ray-na-chetyrekh-sotkakh/|publisher=tele.ru|title=Юрий Чернов: «Рай на четырёх сотках»|date=23 November 2018|language=ru|trans-title=Yuri Chernov: "Paradise on four hundred parts"}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chernov is married and has two children.<ref name="1783-1994"/>
==Selected filmography== * ''We'll Live Till Monday'' (1968) * ''Village Detective'' (1969) * ''In the Zone of Special Attention'' (1978) * ''Errors of Youth'' (1978) * ''The Adventures of the Elektronic'' (1979) * ''Along Unknown Paths'' (1982) * ''After the Rain, on Thursday'' (1985) * ''What a Mess!'' (1995)
==Awards== * 29 August 1994, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation for services in the field of cinema.<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/6879 Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России от 29 августа 1994 года № 1783]</ref> * 10 January 2008, People's Artist of the Russian Federation for great services in the field of cinema.<ref>[http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/26778 Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России от 10 января 2008 года № 27]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0155947}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114921/http://www.teatron-journal.ru/intervyu/item/2278-chernov Interview Teatron Magazine] * [http://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/273129/ Filmography of Yuri Chernov]
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