Yevgeni Urbansky

Yevgeni Urbansky
Евгений Яковлевич Урбанский
Yevgeni Urbansky in the film Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Born(1932-02-27)February 27, 1932
DiedNovember 4, 1965(1965-11-04) (aged 33)
Cause of deathAccident during filming
Burial placeNovodevichye Cemetery, Moscow
EducationMoscow Art Theatre School, 1952-1957
OccupationActor
Years active1957-1965
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
AwardsHonored Artist of the RSFSR

Yevgeni Yakovlevich Urbansky (Russian: Евгений Яковлевич Урбанский; born February 27, 1932, in Moscow – November 5, 1965, Bukhara Region) was a prominent Soviet Russian actor.

The creative life of Yevgeni Urbansky was short but very bright. A whole cinema epoch with peculiar aesthetics was created by him in the films The Communist (1958), Ballad of a Soldier (1959), and Clear Skies (1961). At the age of thirty-three, the actor died in an accident while performing a stunt during filming.