Theater and film artist Yuri Ustinov died

MOSCOW, May 18 - RIA Novosti. The famous theater and film artist, academician of the department of theater and film decoration of the Russian Academy of Arts, Yuri Ustinov, died at the age of 72, his family told RIA Novosti.

“Very unexpectedly, he passed away on May 17 at two o’clock in the morning. Before that, he worked very actively, 12 hours a day,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

Ustinov graduated from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1980, where he studied with Mikhail Kurilko-Ryumin and Valery Leventhal. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and Theater Workers of Russia.

He designed performances at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater, the Boris Eifman State Ballet Theater, and the Moscow State Russian Ballet Theater under the direction of Vyacheslav Gordeev. In addition, Ustinov worked at the Mayakovsky Theater, the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, and the Stanislavsky Drama Theater.