Yuriy Puzyryov(1926-1991)

Yuriy Puzyryov is Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Yuriy Puzyryov was born in the village of Serebryanye Prudy of the Moscow Region. His childhood passed in Leningrad. At the beginning of World War II, his mother, Evgenia Arefyevna, was sent to the evacuation. He returned to Leningrad in 1944 and entered the machine-building technical school. At the request of the mother, he was admitted to the Bolshoy Drama Theater to participate in the crowd scenes. When a group came from Moscow to recruit talented young people to the Moscow Art Theater School, Puzyryov was selected and in September 1948 he was enrolled in the acting faculty, which graduated in 1952. In 1952-1958 he served in the Central Theater of Transport, in 1958 he was invited to the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the Art Theater in 1987, Yuriy was an actor of Moscow Art Theater headed by Tatyana Doronina. In March 1991, due to disagreements with the artistic leadership, he was forced to leave the theater. In the cinema, Yuriy Puzyryov made his debut in 1954, starring in Vladimir Nemolyayev's film Morskoy okhotnik (1954). Widespread fame actor brought the role of Viktor Bezays in the movie Po tu storonu (1958).