Yevgeniya Uralova

Yevgeniya Vladimirovna Uralova (Russian: Евге́ния Влади́мировна Ура́лова; née Treitman; 19 June 1940 – 17 April 2020) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1994.

She was born on June 19, 1940, in Leningrad.

During World War II, as a child, she was evacuated from besieged Leningrad with her mother. On the way, they were surrounded and lived for some time in a partisan detachment. Later she lived in Izborsk. After the war ended, she returned to Leningrad, living with her mother in a shed since there was no available apartment. She performed poorly in school.^[1][2]

She participated in an amateur theater studio. She made her film debut in the movie Tale of Newlyweds in an episodic role as the heroine's friend. With her fee, her mother sewed her a tweed coat.^[1]

After school, she graduated from a technical school and was assigned to a factory as a draftswoman. Together with a friend, she went to enter a theater institute and successfully passed the entrance exams. She studied in the evening department of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography while working various jobs as a janitor, lab assistant, and cleaner.

In 1964, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, from the course of F. M. Nikitin. She moved to Moscow together with Vsevolod Shilovsky.^[3] At the same time, she took the stage name Uralova.

From 1965, she was an actress at the Moscow Yermolova Theatre.

Besides her subsequent many years of work in this theater, Yevgeniya Uralova starred in more than 40 films, but is best known for playing the main role in Marlen Khutsiev's film July Rain (1966).^[4]

In 1994, she received the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.

Her last work was the drama Say the Truth (2019).

She died in an Israeli hospital on April 17, 2020, at the age of 79 after a severe illness.^[5] She was buried on April 20, 2020, in Israel at a cemetery in the city of Pardes Hanna-Karkur.^[6]

In 1961, her fiancé Yuri Gakkel, an assistant cameraman at the Lenfilm studio, drowned in the sea during the filming of Barrier of the Unknown in Feodosia. At that time, the actress was pregnant with twins by him, but his death caused a miscarriage.^[1]

She was married three times:

• First husband — Nikolai Podlesov (1934–1998), an artist.
• Second husband — Vsevolod Shilovsky (1938–2025), actor, director, teacher, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).^[3]
• Third husband (from 1967 to 1974) — Yuri Vizbor (1934–1984), Soviet bard, poet, film actor, writer, journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. She met him during the filming of July Rain.^[1][4] There is a version that Vizbor dedicated the song "Milaya moya, solnyshko lesnoye" (My darling, forest sun) specifically to Yevgeniya Uralova.
  • Daughter — Anna Yuryevna Uralova, married, works as a teacher at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
    • Two granddaughters.

• 1973 — A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev. Director: Yekaterina Yelanskaya — Natalya Petrovna
• 1975 — Kruzhilikha, television play based on the novel by Vera Panova

• Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (6 July 1994) — for merits in the field of theatrical art.^[8]

• Zorkaya N. Vokrug kartiny "Iyulskiy dozhd" [Around the film "July Rain"] // Iskusstvo Kino. — 1968. — No. 2. — P. 27–35.
• Iyulskiy dozhd: Putevoditel. Kollektsionnoe izdanie [July Rain: Guide. Collector's Edition] / Ed.-comp. S. Dedinsky, N. Ryabchikova. — [Extended edition]. — Moscow: Kinovedcheskaya artel 1895.io, 2024. — 350 p., ill. — ISBN 978-5-6040-9677-2.

• Yevgeniya Uralova at IMDb