Yuri Aleksandrovich (Shayevich) Muzykant (Russian: Юрий Александрович (Ша́евич) Музыкант; 7 April 1900 - 3 October 1962), was a Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter.
[1] He was in St. Petersburg to Shai Peysakhovich (russified as Alexander Pavlovich), a Jewish goldsmith who died in 1916.
The same year he entered the acting department of the Screen Art Institute in Leningrad, graduating in 1924.
[2][3] During World War II he participated in the defense of Leningrad and on the Belorussian front, initially with the People's Militia and later with the regular Red Army.
Later he worked as a physical therapist for soldiers with lower limb injuries, and as a political officer in the army hospital.