10 Facts About Yuliy Kim

Yuliy Chersanovich Kim is a Russian bard, composer, poet, and songwriter.

Yuliy Kim's parents were victims of the Great Purge of 1937 and 1938, in which his father was executed and his mother was sentenced as a "family member of a traitor of the Motherland" to five years in a labor camp and three years of exile, so that Yuliy Kim didn't see her until age 9.

Yuliy Kim 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.

Yuliy Kim returned to Moscow in 1954 to enter the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.

In 1959, Yuliy Kim graduated from the Department of History and Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Yuliy Kim taught history, literature, geography, and other subjects, and directed a number of musical plays with the schoolchildren.

Subsequently, Yuliy Kim earned a living by writing songs for plays and movies as well as publishing plays under the pseudonym Yu.

Yuliy Kim has received numerous awards, such as the Bulat Okudzhava Prize of the Russian Federation.

Today, Yuliy Kim's discography includes over 20 titles on CD, audio and video tape, and DVD.

Yuliy Kim's songs have been included in almost all anthologies of author's song as well as many anthologies of modern Russian poetry.