[1][2] Born in the Semyonovskoe village near Dmitrov (now Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast) into a Russian working-class family, one of the five children of Konstantin Ilyich Yudin, a miller who died in 1904.
Konstantin joined the Red Army and fought as part of the cavalry in the North Caucasus up till 1920, then returned to Moscow.
[3][4] In 1926 he joined his brother Nikolai Yudin who was working as a cinematographer and took part in several documentaries before enrolling in the State Institute of Cinematography to study directing.
After graduating in 1932 he spent seven years working as an assistant director with Grigori Aleksandrov (on Volga-Volga), Boris Yurtsev and Igor Ilyinsky.
1950 marked his sudden turn to the action genre as he directed two adventure films Brave People and A Fortress in the Mountains with young Sergei Gurzo in the leading roles.
[9] He then directed two movies based on Anton Chekhov's comedy stories and an adaptation of Lev Gurych Sinichkin vaudeville by Dmitry Lensky.