MOSCOW, January 11 People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin died at the age of 89, the management of the Maly Theater reported .
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“People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Maly Theater Yuri Methodievich Solomin died today,” the agency was told.
According to the director of the Maly Theater Tamara Mikhailova, the farewell will take place on the main stage of the theater on January 15, the ceremony will begin at 11: 00. The funeral will take place at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
On November 6, Solomin was hospitalized with a stroke. Later, he was transferred from intensive care to a regular ward of the neurology department; it was reported that the artist’s health was improving. Two days ago it became known that he was discharged from the hospital.
Yuri Solomin was born on June 18, 1935 in Chita into a family of professional musicians. In 1957 he graduated from the M. S. Shchepkin Higher Theater School, where he taught since 1961. He worked as a director in theater and television, and played in almost 60 films and TV series.
In 1988, Solomin was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, and he also became a laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev Brothers (1971), and the State Prize of Russia (2001). He was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1985), the Order of Honor (2010), and was a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
In In 2020, he was awarded the title of Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation.
Solomin was also awarded the Order of Japan – “For Contribution to World Culture” (1993) and the “Rising Sun” (2011), and had the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow and St. Andrew Rublev I degree of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The artist was a laureate of the Golden Aries award (1996), the International Stanislavsky Theater Prize (2001), the Theater Star award (2010), and the FSB award (2010).
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