People who have lived in Siberia for a long time or once came here must have listened to the song "Behind the Fog". The song is a bit sad, but with powerful optimistic overtones. The author of this work is a legendary man, Yuri Alekseevich Kukin.
Starting conditions
The biography of Yuri Alekseevich Kukin remains typical of a whole generation of people who lived next to him. A talented performer of his own songs was born on July 17, 1932 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents at that time lived in the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region.
It is interesting to note that at a certain stage of his development, Yura was not interested in music and vocals. He was fond of sports. Natural data allowed him to show decent results in athletics and gymnastics. After school, Kukin entered the famous Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education. In 1954 he graduated with honors from this educational institution and received a specialized education in the specialty of a trainer. The certified specialist has been putting young skaters on skates for almost twenty years.
Creative routes
Even at school age, when Kukin was fourteen years old, he became interested in playing the drums. The guitar was not available in those days, and jazz bands were often shown in American films. Yura played homemade percussion instruments with great enthusiasm and even wrote a song to a jazz tune. Creativity in this vein lasted a long time. In the early 60s, a close friend invited him to spend a field season in Gornaya Shoria. It was here, by the fire, that Kukin wrote poetry and set them to music.
Yuri began to work seriously in the genre of amateur songs. The career developed slowly, but successfully. In 1971, Kukin was admitted to the staff of the Leningrad Philharmonic. It will not be an exaggeration to say that his songs "Behind the Fog", "Train", "Hotel" and many others were sung by the whole country. They are especially popular among young people. The people were looking forward to each new work.
Essays on personal life
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, interest in art songs, as they say, began to decline. But, oddly enough, love and respect for Yuri Kukin were preserved by those people who moved to permanent residence in other countries. The popular singer-songwriter received invitations to come and perform from Germany and the USA, France and Israel, Canada and the Czech Republic. These trips have always inspired Yuri Alekseevich to create new works.
The personal life of the cult author can be told in a nutshell. Yes, Yuri Kukin married twice. In the first marriage, a husband and wife raised and raised two children - a son and a daughter. As often happens, after many years of living together, the spouse decided to leave. In recent years, the poet and composer has lived with a friend who is more than twenty years younger than him. That was the kind of man he was. Yuri Alekseevich Kukin died on July 7, 2011.
