Background
YURA, Gnat was born on January 8, 1888 in village Fedvar, now Kirovograd Oblast.
YURA, Gnat was born on January 8, 1888 in village Fedvar, now Kirovograd Oblast.
Began acting with amateur groups in Yelisavetgrad. 1907 stage debut; actor and stage director with South. Maksimovich’s troupe, then from 1913 with “Russian Conversation” Social Theater, L’vov. 1917-1919 at Kiev Young Theater.
1919 directed New Theater in Vinnitsa (from 1920 Franko Theater). Actor, stage director and director, above theater. From 1938 taught stagecraft at Kiev Institute of Stagecraft.
Also did film work; Roles: Kopystka in Kulish’s “97”. Maloshtan in Mikitenko’s “Dictatorship”. Schweik in “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwcik”. after HaSek.
Figaro in “The Marriage of Figaro”. Productions: “97” (1924. Kulish’s “Commune in the Steppes” (1925).
Myatezh (Revolt), after Furmanov (1928). Bornepoyezd' 14-69 (Armored Train 14-69) (1928). Mikitenko’s “Dictatorship” (1929), “Personnel" (1930), “An Affair of Honor” (1931), “The Girls of Our Country” (1932), “The Bastille of the Mother of God” (1934) and “Flute Solo” (1935).
A. Ye. Korneychuk’s Kamennyy ostrov (Stone Island) (1930), Gibel' eskadry (The End of a Squadron) (1933), Bankir (The Banker) (1937), Pravda (Truth) (1937), “Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy” (1939), V stepyakh Ukrainy (In the Ukrainian Steppe) (1940), Priyezzhayte v Zvonkovoye (Come to Zvonkovoye) (1945), “Makar Dubrava” (1948), Kalinovaya roshcha (Viburnum Grove) (1950) and Kryl’ya (Wings) (1954). Kocherga’s Mastera vremeni Masters of Time) (1934) and Svad’ba Svichki (Svichka's Marriage) 1960). Yu. I. Yanovskiy’s Potomki (Descendants) (1940).
Karpenko-Karyy’s Suyeta (Fuss) (1920). Sto tysyach (The Hundred Thousand) (1945). Franko’s Ukradennoye schast’ye (Stolen Happiness) (1940).
Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths) (1920). “Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1927). “Don Carlos” (1936), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1938.
