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Born December 23, 1936, Moscow - Soviet and Russian poet, composer, playwright, screenwriter.
Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1959), until 1963 he worked at a school in Kamchatka (the village of Anapka, Karaginsky District), then for several years in Moscow, taught literature, history and social science (including boarding school number 18 at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov) .
Already during these years, Julius Kim began to write and act out with the students author's song compositions with interludes and vocal scenes, which contained all the elements of the musical. In 1965-1968, Yuli Kim became one of the activists of the human rights movement, as a result of which he was forced to publish under the pseudonym Yu. Mikhailov until 1985. In 1966, he married Irina Petrovna Yakir (1948-1999), the granddaughter of the repressed commander Yona Yakir. Irina's father, a well-known human rights activist and dissident Pyotr Yakir, was arrested at the age of 14 and released only at the age of 32. In 1967-1969, Julius Kim signed numerous collective letters demanding respect for human rights, addressed to the authorities. Together with his father-in-law P. Yakir and I. Gabai, he co-authored the address "To the workers of science, culture and art" (January 1968) about the persecution of dissidents in the USSR. Passed in the operational reports of the KGB under the code name "Guitarist". A number of Kim's songs, thematically related to "dissident" plots, also belong to the same period: courts, searches, surveillance, and the like. In 1968, Kim finally left the school at the behest of his superiors, who did not forgive him for participating in the human rights movement (as well as songs such as "Lawyer's Waltz", Gentlemen and Ladies, and others). Since then, Kim has led the life of a freelance artist.
While still a student at the Pedagogical Institute, Julius Kim began to write songs based on his poems (since 1956) and perform them, accompanying himself on a seven-string guitar with a special "gypsy" system. His first concerts rolled around Moscow in the early 1960s, the young author quickly entered the circle of the most popular bards in Russia. Since 1968 he has become a professional composer of songs and plays for theater and cinema. As 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 for the authorities the surname Kim sounded like a dissident seditious. At the same time, he could not publish even under the pseudonym
In March 1968, Julius Kim, together with Alexander Galich, Vladimir Berezhkov and other bards, took part in the Festival of Author's Song, organized by the Pod Integral club. Most of Yulia Kim's songs were written to his own music, much was also written in collaboration with such composers as Gennady Gladkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Alexei Rybnikov.
In 1970-1971, Julius Kim took part in the preparation of the Chronicle of Current Events. Some of her issues of this period were almost completely edited by him. Then Yuliy Kim withdrew from active human rights activities. In 1974, Julius Kim joined the Moscow Trade Union Committee of Playwrights and began work on his own plays. In 1985 he starred in a play based on his play Noah and His Sons, 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 - "Fish-whale" .
After the start of perestroika, the Melodiya recording company released a disc with Kim's songs (1988); his surname appears in the credits of movies. The song-piece "Moscow Kitchens" (1990) became a kind of milestone in the theme of dissidence in Kim's work. To date, Julia Kim's discography includes more than 20 titles of discs, audio and video cassettes with recordings of songs. Yuli Kim's songs were included in all anthologies of the author's song, as well as in many poetic anthologies of modern Russian poetry, including "Stanzas of the Century" (compiled by Evgeny Yevtushenko, 1994) .
Member of the Filmmakers Union (1987), Writers Union (1991), Pen Club (1997). The author of about five hundred songs (many of them sound in films and performances), three dozen plays and a dozen books. Laureate of the Golden Ostap Prize (1998). Laureate of the Russian State Prize named after Bulat Okudzhava (2000). In 2002 he translated the musical Notre Dame de Paris into Russian, is the author of the Russian version of the script for this famous performance and most of the songs. Later on the stage of the Moscow Operetta Theater were staged the musicals “Monte Cristo”, “Count Orlov”, “Anna Karenina”, the libretto of which is Julius Kim. Since 1998 he has been living alternately in Jerusalem and Moscow. Member of the Editorial Board of the Jerusalem Magazine .
On March 7, 2008, Yuliy Kim, together with other bards, took part in the Festival of the author's song "Again" Under the Integral "- 40 years later", dedicated to the revival of the club "Under the Integral" and the fortieth anniversary of the 1968 Festival. In 2010, he wrote poems to the music of P. Tchaikovsky for Harry Bardeen's full-length cartoon "The Ugly Duckling" (after G.-H. Andersen) .
In 2015, by the decision of the jury of the Society for the Encouragement of Russian Poetry, Yulia Kim was awarded the National Poet Prize, which caused a negative reaction, on the one hand, from Alexander Kushner and Yevgeny Rein, who left the jury of this prize for refusing to award it to a 58-year-old writer from St. Petersburg to Alexei Purin, on the other hand - Evgeny Yevtushenko and Oleg Chukhontsev, who wanted to see Naum Korzhavin as a laureate, as Yevgeny Yevtushenko announced right at the Yuliy Kim award ceremony on May 28 in Moscow.

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