Yuriy Alexandrovich Kuzmenkov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Кузьменко́в; 16 February 1941 – 11 September 2011) was a Soviet-Russian screen and stage actor.

[6] He got work in a factory but found that he enjoyed acting and took part in amateur performances at his workplace.

As his passion for acting increased, he went to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre.

[7] Kuzmenkov made his screen debut in 1963 in the Soviet film In the Name of the Revolution.

He rose to fame in 1970, with movies such as Taymyr Calls You (1970) and Big School-Break (1972).