Yuri Gulyayev

Yuri Aleksandrovich Gulyayev (9 August 193023 April 1986) The singer's voice was a lyric baritone.

Career He studied at the Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk. After graduating from the Conservatory, he sang at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1955, he became a soloist of the State Russian Opera and Ballet Theater in Stalino. Amongst his most notable performances were those at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The most successful roles are Germont ("La traviata" by G. Verdi), Onegin ("Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky), Valentin ("Faust" by C. Gounod), Count Di Luna ("Il trovatore" by G. Verdi), Figaro ("The Barber of Seville" by G. Rossini). Vocal works such as "The Russian Field", "On the Nameless Height", "My Kiev", "Song of Restless Youth", were especially popular with listeners. the romance "Along the street the snowstorm sweeps", considered folk songs "From behind the island on the Strezhen" and "The Cliff of Stenka Razin", a number of Russian folk songs, in particular "Vdol po Piterskoy".

Gulyayev toured the Soviet Union and abroad a lot: he performed in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Canada, Cuba, Poland, United States, France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Japan and other countries. In 1964 he performed at the Olympia in Paris.

The singer's last recording took place on 12 April 1986, on Cosmonautics Day – it was a teleconference with cosmonauts Solovyov and Kizim, who were in orbit. The singer performed a song "My beloved waved a handkerchief at the gate" to his own accompaniment on the accordion.

He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1968. Gulyayev died on 23 April 1986 of heart failure at the age of 55.

Personal life Gulyayev loved to drive a car. In his spare time, his favorite activities were chess and playing the piano. From literature, he was very fond of the works of Anton Chekhov and Sergei Yesenin. Merited Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1960) USSR State Prize (1975) Honorary Citizen of Tyumen (2005)

Selected songs

Do You Know What Kind of Guy He Was Do the Russians Want War? Embracing the Sky

Mezh Vysokikh Khlebov Zateryalosya My Kiev On the Nameless Height

Wait for Me Zhuravli