Yuri Galtsev

{{short description|Russian actor, clown, television presenter, singer and stand-up comic}}

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|name=Yuri Nikolayevich Galtsev

| native_name = Юрий Николаевич Гальцев

| native_name_lang = ru

|image= Юрий Гальцев на концерте группы Дискомафия (08.04.2019) (1) (cropped).jpg

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|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1961|4|12}}

|birth_place= Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union

|years_active=1988—present

|occupation=actor, comedian, singer

|nationality ={{flag|Soviet Union}}
{{flag|Russia}}

|awards = {{Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class}}
Several others (see below)

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Yuri Nikolayevich Galtsev ({{langx|ru|Юрий Николаевич Гальцев}}; born April 12, 1961, Kurgan) is a Russian entertainer and clownery, TV presenter, parodist, singer, theater, film and television actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2003).[http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=017485 Указ Президента России No. 537 от 19 мая 2003 года] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104114942/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=017485 |date=2012-01-04 }} Art Director of the Raikin Variety Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Life

Yuri Galtsev was born on April 12, 1961, in Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His father, Nikolai Afanasievich Galtsev (1935–2011), was a director of the reinforced concrete products factory, Honored Builder of the USSR.

In 1988, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, with a degree in Music Speech Estrada, where he made friends with Gennady Vetrov.{{Cite web |url=http://mignews.com/news/interview/cis/100507_140006_09282.html |title=Юрий Гальцев: Я знаю себе цену! |access-date=2019-01-25 |archive-date=2016-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914051428/http://mignews.com/news/interview/cis/100507_140006_09282.html |url-status=dead }}

Selected filmography

Of Freaks and Men (1998) as Impresario
Streets of Broken Lights (1998, 2000, 2012) as Yurik, singer, Eduard Zaslavsky
Deadly Force (2000) as expert Yuri
Empire under Attack (2000) as Alexander Iosifovich Frank
Dead Man's Bluff (2005) as Sergei (voice)
Yeralash (2006) as teacher of history
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors 92007) as Abag
Hitler Goes Kaput! (2008) as Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller
The Best Movie 2 (2009) as herald
Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon (2012) as mayor[http://www.kinopoisk.ru/level/80/film/417854/ Премьеры: Ржевский против Наполеона]
Sheep and Wolves (2016) as Ziko (voice)
Koschey: The Everlasting Story (2021) as Vodyanoy (voice)

Honours and awards

20px Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (May 19, 2003)
{{Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class}} Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (March 30, 2020)
Entry into the Gallery "Kurgans — the pride of the city" (June 28, 2017)