Gennadi (birth name Geniy[1]) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (Russian: Геннадий (Гений) Гаврилович Юхтин; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor.

At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin was orphaned: his mother died at the front during the Second World War in 1942, and his father died of wounds in 1946.

[2] He ended up in a special orphanage for the children of dead army and navy officers.

Later he ended up in the Volga region, where the teacher, a former actress, introduced her pupils to amateur art.

Yukhtin graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography.