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Jüri Krjukov

Born
Sep 5, 1954 · Aged 43
Died
Oct 18, 1997
Place of birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]
Gender
Male
Movie credits
28
TV credits
3
Also known as (4)
  • Юрий Крюков
  • Yury Kryukov
  • Юри Крюков
  • Yuriy Kryukov

Biography

Jüri Krjukov (September 5, 1954 – October 18, 1997) was an Estonian actor. Jüri Krjukov was born in Tallinn to Igor Krjukov, an engineer of Russian origin, and Maria Krjukov (née Pirson), who was Estonian. He had an older brother Oleg, seven years his senior. When he was six-months-old, his father died and his mother supported the family by working as a hairdresser. In 1968, aged fourteen, Krjukov made his film debut in a starring role as Ilmar, an Estonian boy in the Pioneer organization, in the Aleksandr Kurochkin directed Russian language children's film Passenger from the "Equator".…