He showed Yumatov to the State Theater of Movie Actors and in a couple of years cast him in the top-grossing film The Young Guard.

Between 1950 and 1970 he performed in many popular war and action films, usually portraying heroic, yet down-to-earth lads with a glimpse of humour.

While Yumatov didn't have much regard for this role nor for the film, it quickly turned into a cult classic.

She was afraid that pregnancy might ruin her chance to perform «the role of her life» and kept making abortions.

Investigation showed that after the burial they drank in the dog's memory, and the janitor told Georgi that he regretted that the Nazis hadn't won the war.

Yumatov, a war veteran, was outraged and started a fight, during which he was wounded in the head with a kitchen knife.

[4] He spent two months in prison, but was pardoned following the 1995 amnesty dedicated to 50 years since the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War.

On 9 May 1997 he made his last appearance on public in a popular TV show Pole Chudes dedicated to the war victory.