Yuri Temirkanov was born on December 10, 1938 in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia]. He is known for his work on Alexander Nevsky (1938), Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974) and Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya (1975).