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Yuriy Yuryevich (Georgiev) Yakovlev is Bulgarian theater and cinema - actor , the son of Russian actor and director Yuri D. Yakovlev , who lived and worked in Bulgaria in 1920-1922 and from 1933 until his death in 1938. His son Yuri was born on October 5, 1930 in Riga, Latvija at the time when his father worked for the founding of the Theatre in the city. Three years later the family settled permanently in Sofia. His mother was a famous opera singer Zhana Sladkarov - Yakovleva. Her brother Angel Sladkarov is the creator of the operetta in Bulgaria. In this artistic family logically Yuriy Yakovlev's launch on the stage became when he was 7 years old in the performance of his father's "Black Spot" at the National Theatre. This does not interfere that his first application in National Academy for Theatre and Film Art to be broken, but next year he has adopted in the class of Professor Boyan Danovski . In 1955-1956, he has played on the stage of Pernik Drama Theater. Between 1956 and 1964 he participated in the Theater troupe "Labor Front". Then - three years in the theater " People scene ." In 1967, he was invited by his professor Boyan Danovski in the creation of New Drama Theatre " Tears and Laughter ", where he played until his retirement in 1992. On October 26, 1989 he was one of those arrested in the garden of the "Crystal", but not as an activist of "Eco-Glasnost" and because of his civil resentment and defiance of the order does not come into the garden. He died on August 15, 2002 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
