Yuliy Kim(I)

Julius Kim was born in Moscow. After the arrest of his parents, he left the capital in 1938 for 16 years, which he spent in the Kaluga region and in Turkmenistan. Since 1954 - again a Muscovite. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1959), worked for five years in Kamchatka, then for several years in Moscow, taught history and social science (including boarding school number 18 at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov). Already in these years, Yuliy Kim began to write and act out author's song compositions with interludes and vocal scenes with students, in which there were all the elements of a musical. In 1965-1968, Yuli Kim became one of the activists of the human rights movement. In 1966, he married Irina Petrovna Yakir (1948-1999), the granddaughter of the repressed army commander I. E. Yakir. Irina's father, a well-known human rights activist and dissident, was arrested at the age of 14 and was released only at the age of 32. In 1968, Kim left the school forever at the behest of his superiors, who did not forgive him for participating in the human rights movement. (Probably such songs as Lawyer's Waltz, Gentlemen and Ladies and others). Since then he has been a freelance artist. While still a student at the Pedagogical Institute, Julius Kim began to write songs on his own poems (since 1956) and perform them, accompanying himself on a seven-string guitar with a special "gypsy" tuning. His first concerts swept through Moscow in the early 1960s, the young author quickly entered the circle of the most popular bards in Russia.Since 1968, he began to professionally compose songs and plays for theater and cinema. Being a member of the dissident movement, for a long time he appeared in the credits of films and playbills under the pseudonym "Yu. Mikhailov", since the surname "Kim" sounded seditious to the authorities.Most of Yuli Kim's songs are written to his own music, many are also written in collaboration with such composers as Gennady Gladkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Alexei Rybnikov.In 1974, Julius Kim joined the Moscow Trade Union Committee of Playwrights and began work on his own plays. In 1985, he played the lead role in a play based on his play Noah and His Sons. In the same year, he abandoned the use of a pseudonym and began publishing under his own name.At the same time, the first disc with his songs was released - "Whale Fish". To date, Yuli Kim's discography includes more than 20 titles of discs, audio and video cassettes with recordings of songs.The songs of Yuli Kim were included in all anthologies of author's songs, as well as in many poetic anthologies of modern Russian poetry, including "Strophes of the Century" (compiled by E. Yevtushenko, 1994).