---
name: "Yuri Klepikov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yuri-klepikov"
fi1m_id: "yuri-klepikov"
imdb_id: "nm0459302"
tmdb_id: 147271
wikidata_id: "Q8061523"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 August 1935"
died: "1 November 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:10:47.310702+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yuri Klepikov

## Identity

Yuri Klepikov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yuri-klepikov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yuri-klepikov
- **IMDb ID:** nm0459302
- **TMDB ID:** 147271
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8061523
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Klepikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8061523, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147271

Writer. Born 24 August 1935 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union. Died 1 November 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 August 1935, Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union
- **Died:** 1 November 2021
- **Also known as:** Yuriy Klepikov, Юрий Николаевич Клепиков, Ю. Клепиков
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Klepikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8061523, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147271

## Biography

Yuri Klepikov was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and actor. He was born in Chelyabinsk in 1935 and graduated from the journalism faculty of Moscow State University in 1960. He completed scriptwriting courses at the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors in 1964 (workshop of E. I. Gabrilovich) and in 1967 at Lenfilm (workshop of G. M. Kozintsev).

Klepikov wrote screenplays for twelve films from 1966 onwards. His credits include *The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved but Did Not Marry* (1966), *Dauriya* (1972), and the screenplay for Larisa Shepitko’s *The Ascent* (1977), adapted from Vasil Bykaŭ’s novella *Sotnikov*. He also appeared as an actor in several productions. He received the Nika Award in 1988 and served as a People’s Deputy of the USSR from 1989 to 1991.

Klepikov died in St Petersburg in 2021.

*Sources: imdb.com, ru.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ascent* (1977), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Twelfth Summer* (2008), Writer
- *The Romanovs: A Crowned Family* (2000), Actor
- *Golem: The Petrified Garden* (1993), Actor
- *I Was Stalin's Bodyguard* (1989), Writer
- *Bum* (1988), Actor
- *Temptation* (1988), Writer
- *Tough Kids* (1983), Writer
- *Summer Trip to the Sea* (1978), Writer
- *The House is Being Built* (1978), Actor
- *The Ascent* (1977), Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)
- *Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches* (1975), Writer
- *Dauria* (1972), Writer
- *The Beginning* (1970), as movie director
- *A Ballad of Love* (1970), Writer
- *Mama Got Married* (1969), Writer
- *The Seventh Companion* (1967), Screenplay
- *The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry* (1966), Writer

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