The famous Soviet songwriter and performer, actor, director, writer. Poet, journalist, founder of the musical trend “song - reporting”.
A family
Yuri's father - Joseph Ivanovich - was born back in 1903 in Lithuania, in the city of Libava. He was repressed and rehabilitated only in 1958, posthumously.
The mother of the future bard was born in Krasnodar in 1912. Before the war she graduated from specialized courses of midwives. During the war years she worked as an ordinary employee of the sanitary and epidemiological station and studied at the First Medical Institute. Then, for about 30 years, she worked at the Ministry of Health of the Soviet Union, was a member of many medical organizations, and visited almost 50 foreign countries.
Childhood and youth
The biography of Yuri Vizbor is woven from creativity in all its manifestations. Yurochka was born on June 20, 1934 in Moscow. At the age of 14, he wrote his first poem, which marked the beginning of his work. While studying in high school, the boy was seriously involved in football, attended a flying club, and wrote down his impressions in verses in a student’s notebook.
In 1951, Yuri entered the Moscow Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin. Just at that time, a new trend of the author’s song was born in the walls of the mentioned university. It was then that Yuri Vizbor wrote his first song, Madagascar. During his studies at the institute, he composed dozens of songs. In addition, it was he who became the author of the anthem of the Moscow State Pedagogical University and MGTI.
In 1955, Vizbor received a diploma of a teacher of Russian language and literature. After working for several months at school, he was drafted into the ranks of the
Soviet Army.Yuri Vizbor: Poems and Prose
While serving in the army, Yuri Iosifovich takes an active part in amateur performances. His prose and poems are published in army publications. In 1959, he wrote the feuilleton for Musical Life, a popular magazine in which he sharply criticized the tastelessness of many futuristic songs of the time. By the beginning of the sixties, perhaps, one of his most popular and beloved works - “Dombay Waltz”.
Bard's creativity
After serving in the army, Yuri Vizbor, whose biography was already inextricably linked with creativity, began his career in the newspaper “Speaks Komsomoliya” as a journalist. Since 1958, interest in bard song has intensified not only among tourists and students, but also began to appear in other, wider circles.
Fans began to recognize Yuri Iosifovich. Between 1951 and 1960, more than 50 songs were written. They sounded everywhere. Yuri Vizbor, whose songs are popular today, used the tunes of other composers in his work. For example, with Svetlana Bogdasarova, songs such as “Karelian Waltz”, “Guy from Kentucky” were written. But at the same time, he worked independently.
The first such experience was the work “Little Radio Operator”, “Romantics”, “Blue Mountains”. In 1962, Yuri Vizbor took an active part in the opening and further development of the Yunost radio station.
Biography of Yuri Vizbor: journalism
Since 1964, with a group of like-minded people, Yuri Iosifovich has been participating in the publication of the Krugozor magazine. Visbor travels a lot around the country, meets people of various professions. The impressions accumulated during the trips are formed into the original genre of the reportage song. The first of them, “On the Rasvumchorr Plateau,” and all subsequent ones, are published on floppy disks as annexes to the magazine.
Yuri Vizbor - screenwriter, director and actor
Since 1970, Visbor began work in the Ekran association, on Central Television. He takes part in the creation of forty paintings, among which are such popular ones as “Year 1943” and “Year 1944”, “Watch on Kama”, “Bratsk yesterday and tomorrow”. According to his script, the feature films “Leap”, “Year of the Dragon”, and others were shot. As an actor, Yuri Iosifovich starred in such beloved millions of films as “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, “Rudolfio”, “Red Tent”, “Retribution”,
"Moscow, passing through." These films have become a favorite for several generations of viewers ... In the July Rain art picture, Vizbor sang his own song, "Calm, Comrade, Calm" and "Forgive the Infantry" - a song by Bulat Okudzhava.
Visbor - climber and traveler
One of the most serious hobbies of this talented person was mountain climbing and traveling. I must say that the biography of Yuri Vizbor is a series of extraordinary adventures. He was seriously engaged in mountaineering, with great pleasure took part in expeditions to the Pamirs, the Caucasus, the Tien Shan. He worked as an instructor on ski slopes. This hobby was reflected in the songs “Wake”, “And hoping for a faithful friend ...”. They have become extremely popular in the tourist environment. Often, not everyone knew who their author was, sincerely believing that they were folk.
Personal life
Yuri Iosifovich was married three times. His first wife was Ada Yakusheva. A daughter Tatyana was born in the family, later on she became a successful radio and television journalist. Yuri’s second wife was the popular actress Yevgenia Uralova, whom she met on the set of the film “July Rain”. A second daughter appeared - Anna. The last, third time, Yuri Iosifovich married in 1974. The chosen one was Nina Tikhonova, with whom he lived until the end of his days.
Biography of Yuri Vizbor: disease
In April 1984, a very young Yuri Vizbor (50 years old) was diagnosed with liver cancer. And on September 17, 1984 he was gone.
A wonderful bard was buried at the Novokuntsevsky cemetery. Yuri Vizbor, whose songs became a truly national treasure, lived a very short, but extremely bright life. Over 33 years, he has created more than three hundred musical works, and more than five hundred of his poems are put on the music of other composers. His amazing talent was manifested in everything that he had to touch, everything was up to him. His songs are known and loved until now.
The memory of the poet is immortalized on Mount Cheget, in Kabardino-Balkaria. In 2006, a memorial plaque dedicated to this talented man was installed. Of course, in our article a very short biography is presented. Yuri Vizbor and his work deserve great research works, which undoubtedly exist and are published in special publications.