Yuri Vizbor

Career overview

Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor was born on June 20, 1934, in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR, and died on September 17, 1984, at the age of fifty. He was a Soviet songwriter, bard, film actor, journalist, writer, screenwriter, and poet, as well as a theatre actor. He is recognized as one of the founders of the author's song genre and the creator of the reportage song genre, having authored more than 300 songs.

In 1955, Vizbor graduated from the faculty of Russian language and literature of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. During that same year, he wrote the text for his first song titled Madagascar, utilizing music borrowed from the performance of Sergei Obraztsov under the title Under the rustle of your eyelashes. While studying at the institute, he began writing songs, typically using his own poems. Between 1950 and 1960, he composed approximately 40 songs. Over the course of his life and career, he also worked as a teacher, served in the army, and, starting in 1958, worked on the All-Union Radio.

In the realm of film and television, Vizbor is known for his work in acting, holding twenty-four known credits on the Movie Database platform under his stage name.