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Filmmaker · Armenia

Yuri Yerznkyan

Died in 1996

Yuri Yerznkyan was born on 26 January 1922 in Tiflis, the son of the Bolshevik Aramais Yerznkyan. A set painter at the Yerevan theatre from 1939 to 1942 and a trainee at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, he joined the Armenfilm studio in 1943 as a set designer, then became a director there, at first of documentaries. A graduate of the Yerevan theatre institute in 1952, he brought Sundukian to the screen in 1971, taught directing and was named People's Artist of Armenia in 1975. He died in Moscow on 19 December 1996.

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