December 18 marks 90 years to Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Nikulin was born on December 18, 1921 in Demidov, the Smolensk region. His father, Vladimir Andreevich Nikulin worked in the Drama Theater in Demidov. The actress was his mother, Lidia Ivanovna Nikulina. In 1925, the family moved to Moscow. On November 8, 1939, he was drafted into the army, served in the 115th anti-aircraft artillery regiment. During the Soviet-Finnish war, the anti-aircraft battery, where he served, was near Sestroretsky and guarded air approaches to Leningrad.