- 1984 - 1988: studied acting at Irkutsk Theatrical School under N. Arno and Valentina Dulova.
- 1988 - 1992: studied at GITIS under Pyotr Fomenko.
- He and his wife, Russian costume designer Irina Sorokina, now a widow, have three sons. The older two are Konstantin and Dmitriy, who were both born in the 2000s. Irina was in her eighth month of pregnancy when Yuriy died in an automobile accident on March 3, 2010. Just under four weeks later, on March 30, 2010, she gave birth to their third son, Yuriy, who she named in honor of his late father.
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