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Yuriy KazuchitsActor
Date of Birth: 20.05.1959
Country:  Russia |
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Biography of Yuri Kaziuchits
Childhood and YouthYuri Kaziuchits was born on May 20, 1959, in the village of Irsha near Krasnoyarsk. His parents moved to Siberia from Belarus for work: his father worked as a driver, and his mother worked on the railway. Yuri grew up in Norilsk. From the sixth grade, he participated in a theater club at the House of Culture, hosted a children's program on local television, and had a radio show at school. After finishing school, Yuri moved to Moscow and auditioned at the Shchukin School. His classmates included Ludmila Nilska, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Andrey Smolyakov, and Philip Smoktunovsky. He graduated from the university in 1980 and joined the army, but he regularly took leave for filming in movies.
Theater and Film
The aspiring actor was assigned to the Maly Bronnaya Theater. However, the Shchukin School graduate declined a career in the capital in favor of the Minsk Film Actor Studio, where he was promised a service apartment. The role that brought the most popularity was the lead role in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet." In 1992, the Belarusian theater toured Moscow, where Oleg Yankovsky personally evaluated Kaziuchits' performance and left him a program with an autograph. Alongside his work on stage, Yuri actively expanded his filmography. He made his screen debut in 1981 with the lead role in the film "The Polissian Chronicles" about a Belarusian village and the arrival of Soviet power. Kaziuchits portrayed the local resident Vasily in the two-part drama films "People in the Swamp" and "Breath of Thunder." Interestingly, initially the young man auditioned for an episodic role, but he impressed director Victor Turov so much that he promoted him to the lead.
Personal Life
Yuri met his future wife, Nadezhda, in a drama club in Norilsk when they were both 14 years old. She saw the young star on television and immediately decided that she wanted to meet him, so she joined the same club. However, when they met in person, Kaziuchits did not impress her. But the young man surrounded Nadezhda with care, helped her with everyday problems, and she gave in.
After graduating from high school, the long-time lovers briefly separated. Yuri went to study in Moscow, while Nadezhda applied to the Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute, where she became a therapist.
They finally got married in 1982. Shortly after, Nadezhda became pregnant, and the couple expected a boy. However, in the summer of 1983, their first daughter, Anna Kaziuchits, was born. The girl resembled her father in both appearance and character.
In early 1986, the family welcomed their second daughter, Tatyana Kaziuchits. She looked more like her mother, although she inherited long eyelashes from her father. Both Kaziuchits' daughters were born in Norilsk while the head of the family was building his career and trying to get housing.
The family finally reunited in Minsk when Yuri was given an apartment. In their daily life, Kaziuchits loved perfect cleanliness, mended his daughters' tights himself, and organized entire home performances while cooking.
Yuri already saw his little Anna as an actress and believed that the gentle and sensitive Tanya had nothing to do with cinema. He said that the different characters of the girls were evident even in photographs. Contrary to her father's expectations, both sisters became actresses.
Anna Kaziuchits recalled that her parents always lived in harmony, but at the age of eight, she found their divorce certificate. Her mother explained that the marriage was dissolved to expand their living space.
On their tenth anniversary, the couple had a wedding ceremony in a rural church in the Belarusian countryside, where their daughters had been baptized. Together with his wife, Yuri dreamt of having a third child – a long-awaited son. However, the actor passed away a year after their lead wedding.
Immediately after the funeral, the daughters learned about the unpleasant details of their father's personal life: in the late 1980s, he had an extramarital daughter from a fleeting romance with a makeup artist at the Belarusfilm studio, Nadezhda Sipegova. The woman had no intention of breaking up the family, so she did not tell Kaziuchits about the pregnancy. Later, he accidentally saw Nastya, the grown-up girl, and figured out everything.
Nadezhda Kaziuchits already knew about the affair but managed to maintain their relationship. Nadezhda Sipegova and Anastasia moved to Moldova before Yuri's death.
Death
Yuri Kaziuchits tragically passed away. He was only 34 years old when he started experiencing back pain. He sought medical help, thinking it was sciatica, but he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. His health was affected by a long-standing spinal injury and dangerous trips to Chernobyl.
The Union of Cinematographers and the Minsk Theater were willing to pay for the actor's treatment at a German clinic, and Nadezhda began collecting documents, but it was all in vain. Kaziuchits died in the late summer of 1993. The cause of death was bone marrow cancer, with metastases spreading to his liver. The actor was buried in the Belarusian village of Belaya Luzha, where his mother lived at the time.
