Photo credit: artistic director of the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia Yuri Solomin / kremlin.ru (CC BY 4.0)
People's Artist of the Soviet Union Yuri Solomin has passed away, TASS reports. The artistic director of the Maly Theater died on Thursday, January, 11. He was 88 years old.
The day before he was discharged from the hospital, where he was treated for the consequences of a stroke.
Farewell to the actor will take place on January, 15 at the Maly Theater. He will be buried at Troekurovsky cemetery.
Yuri Solomin was born in Chita and, when he decided to become an actor, he traveled to the capital for eight days. He entered the Shchepkinsky Drama School and was accepted into the Maly Theater upon graduation. Solomin devoted more than 60 years of his life to this theater. For half of the term he held the position of artistic director, for the first time in the history of the Maly Theater chosen by the team.
Yuri Solomin appeared on stage in plays by Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Griboyedov, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky. He worked a lot as a director both in Russia and abroad.
The cinema brought Solomin enormous popularity and love from millions of viewers. His filmography includes hundreds of films, including such well-known ones as ''An Ordinary Miracle'', ''TASS Is Authorized To Declare...'', ''Adjutant of His Excellency''. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's ''Dersu Uzala'' with the participation of Solomin received an Oscar.
Yuri Solomin received many awards for his creative work. In 2020, he was awarded the gold star of the Hero of Labor.
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