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Yuri Timofeevich Zhdanov

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Yuri Timofeevich Zhdanov

Birth
Moscow Federal City, Russia
Death
9 Apr 1986 (aged 60)
Moscow Federal City, Russia
Burial
Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia Add to Map
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Russian artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR, choreographer, teacher and artist. He graduated from the Moscow Ballet School, with the class of Nikolai Tarasov in 1944, of the choreography department GITISa them. Lunacharsky (Prof. L.M. Lavrovskiy and R.V. Zakharov) in 1968. In the 1944-1967 - the leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. He played the main role in "Romeo and Juliet", "Giselle", "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", "The Bronze Horseman", "Red Poppy", "Les Sylphides", "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Raymonda", "Don Quixote", "The Flame of Paris", "Gayane", "Firebird", "Walpurgis Night." In 1951-1960, he was an constant partner of Galina Ulanova, and played with her ​​in the first six ballets and concerts. Together they made ​​a tour on the cities of the USSR (1952), in subsequent years, participated in the first tour of Soviet ballet in Paris (1954, appeared in films ("Romeo and Juliet"). In 1953 at the studio "thumbnail" for the film "Masters of Russian Ballet". The film includes clip of the ballet, Boris Asafiev "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", and "Flames of Paris" and the ballet "Swan Lake" by P. Tchaikovsky. He played in many films, and was the major artist. He has also performed with Svetlana Adyrkhaeva, Sophia Golovkina, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Yekaterina Maximova, Maya Plisetskaya, Raisa Struchkova, Nina Timofeeva, Alla Shelest and other Russian and foreign dancers. The audience of more than thirty countries, are familiar with Zhdanov.
Russian artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR, choreographer, teacher and artist. He graduated from the Moscow Ballet School, with the class of Nikolai Tarasov in 1944, of the choreography department GITISa them. Lunacharsky (Prof. L.M. Lavrovskiy and R.V. Zakharov) in 1968. In the 1944-1967 - the leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. He played the main role in "Romeo and Juliet", "Giselle", "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", "The Bronze Horseman", "Red Poppy", "Les Sylphides", "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Raymonda", "Don Quixote", "The Flame of Paris", "Gayane", "Firebird", "Walpurgis Night." In 1951-1960, he was an constant partner of Galina Ulanova, and played with her ​​in the first six ballets and concerts. Together they made ​​a tour on the cities of the USSR (1952), in subsequent years, participated in the first tour of Soviet ballet in Paris (1954, appeared in films ("Romeo and Juliet"). In 1953 at the studio "thumbnail" for the film "Masters of Russian Ballet". The film includes clip of the ballet, Boris Asafiev "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", and "Flames of Paris" and the ballet "Swan Lake" by P. Tchaikovsky. He played in many films, and was the major artist. He has also performed with Svetlana Adyrkhaeva, Sophia Golovkina, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Yekaterina Maximova, Maya Plisetskaya, Raisa Struchkova, Nina Timofeeva, Alla Shelest and other Russian and foreign dancers. The audience of more than thirty countries, are familiar with Zhdanov.

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