Yuri Vizbor

Yuri Vizbor
Yuri Vizbor
Born	(1934-06-20)20 June 1934 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	17 September 1984(1984-09-17) (aged 50) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Poet, bard, actor

Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (Russian: Юрий Иосифович Визбор; June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor.

Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and press correspondent, a ski instructor, and an actor in many Russian films and plays.^[1] He participated in and documented expeditions to remote areas of the Soviet Union. His compositions included songs, poetic prose, plays, screenplays and short stories.^[2]