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'''Yuriy Alexandrovich Kuzmenkov''' ({{langx|ru|Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Кузьменко́в}}; 16 February 1941 – 11 September 2011) was a Soviet-Russian screen and stage actor. He was known for portraying working class and military people.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fomina|first1=Inna|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov: They asked me 'Are you still alive?|url=http://7days.ru/stars/privatelife/yuriy-kuzmenkov-mne-govorili-razve-ty-ne-umer.htm|website=7 Дней|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov: All of a Sudden I Demanded They Paid Me Five Thousand Dollars. And So They Did.|url=http://www.segodnya.ua/life/interview/jurij-kuzmenkov-ja-c-bukhty-barakhty-poprocil-honorar-pjat-tycjach-dollarov-i-mne-dali.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329050753/http://www.segodnya.ua/life/interview/jurij-kuzmenkov-ja-c-bukhty-barakhty-poprocil-honorar-pjat-tycjach-dollarov-i-mne-dali.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 29, 2017|website=Segodnya|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref> He was awarded the Honored Artist of Russia (1980).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Yutkevich|first1=Sergey|title=Encyclopedia of Film (Кино: Энциклопедический словарь)|date=1986|publisher=Soviet Encyclopedia|pages=637}}</ref>
==Early life ==
Kuzmenkov was born and grew up in Moscow. He came from a working-class family. His father was a metal worker and his mother was a hairdresser.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fomina|first1=Inna|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov: They asked me 'Are you still alive?|url=http://7days.ru/stars/privatelife/yuriy-kuzmenkov-mne-govorili-razve-ty-ne-umer.htm|website=7 Дней|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>
Upon graduating high school, Kuzmenkov went to trade school to become a metal lathe operator.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov - A Short Bio|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20110911/434968366.html?share-img=#ss434968366=p%3D2|access-date=28 March 2017|agency=RIA News|date=11 September 2011}}</ref> He got work in a factory but found that he enjoyed acting and took part in amateur performances at his workplace. As his passion for acting increased, he went to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre.
== Career == After graduation in 1964, he stayed on at the Mossovet as a member of the acting troupe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mossoveta.ru/history/persons/kuzmenkov/|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov's bio|website=Official Website of the Mossovet Theatre|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>
Kuzmenkov made his screen debut in 1963 in the Soviet film ''In the Name of the Revolution''. He rose to fame in 1970, with movies such as ''Taymyr Calls You'' (1970) and ''Big School-Break'' (1972).
== Personal life == He married theatre actress Galina Vanuyshkina in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov|url=http://zobxan.narod.ru/news/kuzmenkov/2013-04-25-5|website=In Memoriam (Памяти ушедших)|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref> Their son, Stepan, is a diplomat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Lecture Given by the MFA Representative for International Relations Students at Mari State University|url=https://marsu.ru/lv/news.php?ELEMENT_ID=48475|website=Official Website of Mari State University|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>
He died from a heart attack on 11 September 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yuriy Kuzmenkov's Obituary|url=http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=566535&cid=7|website=Vesti.ru|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>
== Partial filmography == {{Div col}} *1965: ''Our House'' as passenger with a suitcase *1966: ''Flying Days'' as Kuzmenkov, entertainer *1967: ''The Journalist'' as Kuzmenkov, entertainer *1968: ''Two Comrades Were Serving'' as soldier *1969: ''By the Lake'' as train passenger *1972: ''The Love of Mankind'' as Yuri Alexandrovich Strumilin *1973: ''Big School-Break'' as Fedoskin *1974: ''Autumn'' as police sergeant major *1976: ''The Age of Innocence'' as Alka's father *1995: ''What a Mess!'' as man with a goat *2005: ''Brezhnev'' as Nikolai Podgorny {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|476776}} * [http://www.mossoveta.ru/history/persons/kuzmenkov/ Yuriy Kuzmenkov at the Mossovet Theatre]
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