Zolotukhin Valery S., actor of the theater of the Soviet period, was born in 1941 in the Altai village of Fast Istok. Parents, Sergei and Matryona Zolotukhiny, led a measured life of a moderately prosperous peasant family. Valera grew up in the company of his elder brother Vladimir, who was both his friend and mentor. After graduating from school, the young Zolotukhin moved to Moscow, driven by a thirst for new impressions and a desire to devote himself to theatrical art.
In 1958, the entrant Valery Zolotukhin, whose biography began in Moscow from scratch, was admitted to the acting faculty of GITIS, where he studied for five years. In the fifth year the merry student life ended, Valery married his classmate Ninel Shatskaya. The marriage was untimely, the newlyweds had to prepare for the final exams. Friends helped as best they could, and as a result, a happy married couple successfully passed the exams and set off on an independent voyage through life. The first place of work of the graduate became the Mossovet Theater, and a year later the actor Valery Zolotukhin, whose biography developed rapidly, moved to the Taganka Theater Company. The actress Shatskaya was also accepted into the theater of Yuri Lyubimov, and, thus, the Zolotukhin's spouses became inseparable.
For Valery began a period of creative success, he was given important significant roles, and he gradually became a characteristic actor with his own role. In 1968, actor Valery Zolotukhin starred in the detective film "The Master of the Taiga", playing the role of district militiaman Vasya Snezhkin. The film was also played by Valery's friend and his theater colleague Vladimir Vysotsky. The picture was spectacular thanks to a good direction, a talented play of the cast, as well as the author's songs of the popular Vysotsky. However, a truly stellar film work for Valery Zolotukhin took place three years later. It was the role of Bumbarash, a character from the works of Arkady Gaidar.
Valery Zolotukhin, whose biography began to replenish with new pages, after the release of the screen "Bumbarash" became even more popular. The audience went to the Taganka Theater on Bumbarash. On the street, the actor was not given a passage. But in his personal life Zolotukhin was not so radiant: marriage with actress Shatskaya gave a break and soon broke up. Ninel went to actor Leonid Filatov, who also worked in the troupe Yuri Lyubimov. The growing son of Denis, born in 1969, Shatskaya took with her. Valery Zolotukhin lived for a while alone, and then on the set of the film "The Only One" directed by Joseph Heifits, he met Tamara, who was engaged in musical accompaniment of the picture. Valery soon made his new acquaintance an offer, and they got married.
In 1987, at the height of perestroika, Valery Zolotukhin, whose biography could serve as an example of a successful theatrical career, became People's Artist of Russia. Work in the theater went on as usual, some roles were replaced by others, the main director Lyubimov then left and returned. Finally, with the beginning of the 2000s, Valeriy Zolotukhin has a creative upsurge. Several roles were played in serials and blockbusters: "Site", "Master and Margarita", "Night Watch" and others. Then Zolotukhin also had another (civil) wife, Irina Lindt, from whom Ivan's son was born. Valeria was tormented by nostalgia for his native places, he tried as often as possible to visit the Quick Source. On his own money, Zolotukhin built an Orthodox church in the village. In 2011, the actor, after the theater left Yuri Lyubimov, was appointed to the post of director of the Taganka Theater. But a few months later he fell seriously ill and soon died. After farewell ceremonies People's Artist of Russia Valery Zolotukhin, whose date of death fell on March 30, 2013, was buried in his native village on the territory of the church he built.