He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union on 22 October 1938, the son of a worker at the Goznak factory.
Among them was Artyom in The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998) and as Igor in I Want to Go to Prison (1998).
[1] In 1988 Furmanov founded the Andrei Mironov Theatre "Russian Entreprise" [ru] in Leningrad, and in 2008 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
[3][2] Furmanov died on 9 April 2021 in Saint Petersburg, Russia at the age of 82 from COVID-19.
[4][3] Governor of Saint Petersburg Alexander Beglov was among those offering tributes, stating that "Saint Petersburg culture has suffered a heavy loss.