Russia (bbabo.net), - On the eve of his birthday, January 12, the oldest artist of the Vyatka Philharmonic, Yuri Kvyatkovsky, passed away. He would have turned 98 today.

The death of Yuri Stepanovich is reported on the website of the Philharmonic. He was born on January 13, 1924 in Dnepropetrovsk, in a family of circus performers. He went through almost the entire Great Patriotic War - from 1942 to Victory Day, which he met in Vienna. He was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and others.

Yuri Stepanovich arrived in Kirov in 1954. Here he met his future wife, singer Aelita Tkachuk, with whom he had been married for 70 years.

The creative path of Yuri Kvyatkovsky includes numerous tours of Russia, filming in films - in such cult films as "The Legend of Til" and "Tehran-43".

"Yuri Stepanovich was an amazingly bright, kind and charming person, he was respected and loved by colleagues and spectators," the Vyatka Philharmonic emphasized.

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