Yuri Stoyanov


Yuri Nikolaevich Stoyanov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, musician. People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Most famous comedian duo with Ilya Oleynikov.

Biography

Yuri was born July 10, 1957 in Odessa, as a child he moved under Odessa to the village of Borodino. Mother is Russian, Yevgenia Leonidovna Stoyanova, worked as deputy director for educational work, director of a pedagogical college and taught Ukrainian language and literature, honored worker of education of Ukraine. He lives in Odessa. Father — Bulgarian, Nikolai Georgievich Stoyanov worked as a gynecologist, died in 1993.
In 1974 he entered the GITIS. After graduation in 1978, he played at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, where he worked as an actor until 1995.
Yury Stoyanov received nationwide fame after the release of the sketch show :ru:Городок|Gorodok, which he created and led together with Ilya Oleynikov from 1993 to 2012.
October 30, 2018 Stoyanov joined the Council on Public Television by decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

Selected filmography

Stoyanov married three times. Stoyanov has three daughters and two stepdaughters.