Yuri Georgiyevich Bogatyryov (Russian: Ю́рий Гео́ргиевич Богатырёв, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ bəɡətɨˈrʲɵf]; 2 March 1947 – 2 February 1989) was a Soviet actor, best known for his roles in five films by Nikita Mikhalkov, including At Home Among Strangers (1974).

[3] Yuri was fond of painting and after the eighth grade he left the school to join the Mikhail Kalinin Art College There, after meeting a member of a youth puppet theatre/studio Globus, he became interested in theater.

Critically acclaimed were his performances in three more Mikhalkov's features, An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano (1976, based on Chekhov's stories), A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1979, the adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's classic), and Family Relations (Rodnya, 1981).

Bogatyryov also starred in the TV series Two Captains (1976, based on Veniamin Kaverin's novel) and an epic Declaration of Love (Obyasnenye v lyubvi, 1978).

"A two-meter giant, he could easily play a bravest knight (or the chekist Yegor Shilov in At Home Among Strangers), then turn into an ecstatically maudlin idiot Manilov in Gogol's Dead Souls.