Career
He is also the Distinguished performer of arts of the Russian Federation (Russia) and the Distinguished artist of the Chechnya-Ingushetia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1983). Yuri Mikhailovich Antonov was born into the family of an officer of the Soviet Army, Mikhail Vasilievich Antonov, who after World World War II stayed to serve in the military administration of Berlin. Yuri"s sister, Zhanna (Jane) was born there.
His mother, Natalya Mikhailovna (Litovchenko), who was from Kremenchuk (Poltava Region), died in 2008 at age 85. in 1997 Yuri Antonov get star on the Star Square in Moscow.
He has released 30 albums, including a 19-track Civil Defense in 1992 on Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, entitled Mirror.