Yuri Gorny gained popularity, demonstrating his own phenomenal abilities in public. He always called his numbers psychological studies. Among his signature performances are blind shooting with a pistol at targets for sound, doing up to six things at a time, searching for a needle in the auditorium.
Biography: early years
Yuri Gavrilovich Gorny (real name - Yashkov) was born on August 27, 1941 in the Altai village of Lokot. The war was in full swing. By that time, the Russian army suffered a series of defeats and began to retreat. Yuri's early childhood fell on the most difficult period for the country. In an interview, he admitted that that time left an imprint on his entire future life.
Yuri grew up as an ordinary guy, he did not manifest unique abilities in childhood. Like many Soviet children in the post-war period, he was actively involved in sports. Yuri attended three sections at once: volleyball, skiing, athletics. He knew all the champions and prize-winners of the Union by name, remembered the score in various matches.
In adolescence, Yuri became interested in hypnosis and the possibilities of human consciousness. In those years, newspapers began to publish articles about the famous Rosa Kuleshova and Wolf Messing. Yuri was delighted with their unique gift.
While studying at the Omsk Institute of Physical Education, he accidentally met Ilya Tseitlin. He traveled to Soviet cities as an artist of the original genre. Zeitlin arranged hypnosis sessions on the stage. It was he who became the first teacher for Yuri. He supplied him with literature and showed him several techniques. The first spectators of Yuri were classmates who looked with delight at the abilities of their friend.
At his debut performances, Yuri showed mostly hypnotic numbers. Later he mastered mind reading.
Career
After graduation, Yuri worked in several Barnaul sports societies, including "Harvest", "Trud", "Vodnik". In the latter, he chaired. Once within its walls, he organized his own performance without notifying the superiors. After that he had to leave "Vodnik".
Yuri went to the local philharmonic, where he was allowed to stage performances at his own peril and risk. His genre in those years was balancing between the permitted and the forbidden. Then a sonorous pseudonym appeared - Gorny.
Its popularity grew with each new performance. Soon the police became interested in him and began to hunt for him. The mountain was caught for three years, but never caught. Soon he moved to neighboring Kazakhstan, where he was able to work relatively calmly.
Gorny openly said that he was not a psychic, but an artist. His unusual abilities were revealed to him through training. He did not consider them a gift from above.
Gorny was skeptical about the abilities of other phenomenal personalities, including Wolf Messing, Vladimir Kashpirovsky, Alan Chumak, Vanga. He considered the famous predictions of the latter to be the intrigues of the KGB officers. Yuri is a member of the Commission for the Fight against Pseudoscience at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Personal life
Yuri Gorny tries not to talk about his personal life. It is known that he is married. In 1970, his wife Galina gave birth to a son, Arkady. The boy was born in Kazakhstan.
