Background
Kim was born in 1936 in Moscow to Kim Chersan, a journalist of Korean origin, and Nina Valentinovna Vsesvyatskaya, a teacher of Russian language and literature of Russian origin.
Kim was born in 1936 in Moscow to Kim Chersan, a journalist of Korean origin, and Nina Valentinovna Vsesvyatskaya, a teacher of Russian language and literature of Russian origin.
Moscow State Pedagogical University.
His songs, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, appear in at least fifty Soviet movies, including Bumbarash, The Twelve Chairs, and An Ordinary Miracle, as well as the songs "The Brave Captain," "The Black Sea," "The Whale-Fish," "Cursed Lips," "Captain Bering," and "Baron Germont Went to War." Since 1998, he has been living in Israel and has made periodic tours through Russia, Europe, and the United States. She was rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw period in 1958, but before that, she was under the "101st kilometer" law and could not live in Moscow, so Kim"s family settled in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Oblast. In 1951, the family moved to Turkmenistan.
Kim returned to Moscow in 1954 to enter the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
In 1959, Kim graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University. During his student years, he began writing poems and setting some of them to music
Upon graduation, he was sent to teach in the village of Il"pyrsky, Kamchatka, near Anapka, where he taught for three years. He taught history, literature, geography, and other subjects, and also directed a number of musical plays with the schoolchildren.
Since then, the sea has become one of the main themes of his songs.
In 1969, he signed An Appeal to The United Nations Committee for Human Rights. After returning to Moscow, Kim taught school, and at the same time participated in the dissident movement, which cost him his job in 1968. Subsequently, Kim earned a living by writing songs for plays and movies as well as publishing plays under the pseudonym Yu.
Mikhailov, which he used until 1986.
At the same time, while he was barred from giving concerts, he continued his singing underground. With the advent of glasnost, Kim was finally able to perform legally.
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, he has been acclaimed throughout the Russian-speaking world and has performed in numerous locations in Russia, Europe, and the United States. Today, Yuliy Kim"s discography includes over 20 titles on Civil Defense, audio and video tape, and Digital Video Disc. His songs have been included in almost all anthologies of author’s song as well as many anthologies of modern Russian poetry.
He currently lives between Jerusalem and Moscow.