Boris Yukhananov

Directing

30 Sept 1957

† 05 Aug 2025

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Biography

Boris Yurievich Yukhananov (Russian: Борис Юрьевич Юхананов; born 30 September 1957; Moscow) is a Russian director of theatre, video, cinema and TV, a theatre educator and theorist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow. He was a pioneering figure in Russia’s underground art movement in the 1980s and 1990s and was one of the founders of the Soviet Parallel Cinema movement, which provided an alternative cinema to that which was produced by the state. His...