Yuriy Kireev was born on October 16, 1923 in Novgorod-Severskiy, Chernigovskaya guberniya, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Novgorod-Siverskyy, Chernigivska oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for
Po tonkomu ldu (1966),
Neulovimye mstiteli (1967) and
Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972). He was married to Lyudmila Ilina. He died on March 10, 1988 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].