Yuri Shatunov is an exemplary family man (10 photos). How old is Yuri Shatunov? Where does Yuri Shatunov live now?

On September 6, 1973, the idol and favorite of the fair sex, Yuri Shatunov, was born in Bashkiria (Kumertau). Now he is over forty years old, but his charming smile still excites the hearts of women. What can we say about the 80s, at that time this singer, together with the group “ Tender May"was at the very top of the musical Olympus of the Soviet Union. Judge for yourself, the singer gave about 7 concerts a day, sometimes more. Not many people have ever achieved such stunning popularity, given the fact that Shatunov’s career began in an orphanage.

They say that childhood is the happiest time, but this statement does not apply to Yura. His mother got married at the age of 18, Shatunov’s father was also not many years old at that time, only 23. The couple was too young to take life seriously, or maybe two frivolous people simply came together by nature. Be that as it may, the child born shortly after the wedding did not add seriousness to the parents.

The boy's father, Vasily Klimenko, did not adequately react to the appearance of an heir, although most fathers were overjoyed at the birth of their son. Vasily did not even want to give the newborn his last name, so the guy grew up under his mother’s last name.

In a word, dad and mom were minding their own business, and they entrusted the upbringing of their son to his grandparents. However, the parents were never able to create strong family After living together for only 3 years, they divorced. Left alone, Yura's mother decided to move to the village, little son took it with me. Grieve alone, young and attractive woman wasn't going to, she soon met new love and got married again. New chosen one was partial to alcoholic drinks, Yura could not put up with his drunken brawls and often ran away from home.

It is interesting that it was at that time that Shatunov made his first public debut. A wedding was celebrated in the village; instead of the ensemble, the village accordionist played, as usual. It was to this kind of musical accompaniment that Yura sang the song, the boy liked it so much that he decided to become a singer. Only before this dream it was like before the moon.

Place of residence – boarding school

When Shatunov was in third grade, his relationship with his stepfather completely deteriorated. At the same time, the boy’s mother experienced serious health complications; she suffered from acute heart failure. They decided to send the boy to a boarding school; there was no other choice. Soon after this, his mother died, one year short of her thirtieth birthday.

After the death of his mother, Shatunov, one might say, was left an orphan. Klimenko, as before, did not show fatherly feelings for his son; he did not need Yura. Native sister The mother became the boy's guardian, but raising him turned out to be very difficult. He was too independent and stubborn, despite his young age. The aunt's guardianship ended with the boy running away from her. He liked wandering around the expanses of Bashkiria more than living under his aunt’s wing.

Naturally, the unauthorized traveler was caught. His further fate ended up in the hands of the Commission on Juvenile Affairs. According to her decision, Shatunov was assigned to Orphanage in the vicinity of Orenburg. The guy, accustomed to freedom, would not have stayed there either, but he developed a trusting and warm relationship with the headmistress. She found an approach to the stubborn rebel. When she is transferred to manage the Orenburg orphanage, Yura, without a moment’s doubt, runs away and goes after her.

The birth of “Tender May”

If it had not been for the move to Orenburg, perhaps Shatunov’s fate would have been completely different. The fact is that in the city orphanage the boy’s vocal abilities were noticed by Sergei Kuznetsov. Being the leader of amateur performances, he composed songs himself. Kuznetsov began singing seriously with Shatunov. It was decided to create the “Tender May” group.

The young team began their path to fame from the stage of the boarding school assembly hall. The year was 1986, the group’s success was stunning, it exceeded all the expectations of Kuznetsov and his charges. In addition to the “Tender May” orphanage, he began performing at the Orenburg House of Culture and at discos. Their songs instantly became hits; it seemed that “Grey Night” and “White Roses” were sung by everyone without exception.

The group included only children from the orphanage, their popularity was off the charts. At the end of the eighties, the first album “ Happy May" Kuznetsov simply sold it at the station for only 30 rubles. Immediately after this, Sergei and Yura left for the capital in order to find a way to further development creativity.

The pinnacle of fame of Yuri Shatunov

Shatunov was looking for happiness in Moscow, not suspecting that happiness itself would soon find him. The fact is that the album “Tender May” falls into the hands of the famous producer Andrei Razin. Andrey collaborated with the popular group “Mirage”. Experience told him that the Orenburg orphanage children, under his sensitive mentoring, could go very far. Razin goes to Orenburg to find Shatunov, but the guy went to visit his aunt in the village.

The producer does not stop halfway; he leaves an invitation to the young talent. Soon Yura is already standing at the Moscow station in the company of Razin, who is meeting him. This was followed by Shatunov’s transfer to a Moscow boarding school. From this moment on, “Tender May” is moving by leaps and bounds to the pinnacle of glory. After a tour across the vast expanses of the Soviet Union, cassettes with the group's recordings are selling out like hot cakes on a frosty day. Shatunov started new life with crowds of fans and the popularity of a pop star.

Kuznetsov gave way to Razin, but the lead singer of “Tender May” did not collaborate with Andrey for long. In the early nineties, the singer began a solo career. During this time his popularity declined. This did not stop Shatunov from touring, starring in videos and recording songs. Times were turbulent in the country; after his friend was killed in front of Yura, the singer thought about traveling abroad. Soon a suitable opportunity presented itself to him.

In the mid-nineties, Shatunov left for Germany; he never returned to his homeland. The singer not only stayed to live abroad, but also began studying there to become a sound engineer.

Wife and personal life of Yuri Shatunov

On New Year's party in 2000, Shatunov met his love. The singer’s chosen one turned out to be Svetlana, who also drew attention to handsome guy with a mesmerizing voice. The romance flared up instantly! The couple did not formalize their relationship for 7 years. It’s good together, what else is needed!

The birth of her son Dennis forced her to walk down the aisle. Shatunov’s little heir was 4 months old when his parents finally got married in Frankfurt am Main.

They decided to baptize their son in a church in Sochi in 2007. The Shatunov couple does not forget their homeland. In the same city they have a huge cottage with 5 floors. Godparents Dennis became the sister of Svetlana and Andrei Razin. In 2013, his wife gave Shatunov a daughter. They named the baby Estella.

So the personal life of the idol of the 80s. V in perfect order. The family lives in Germany, visiting their homeland, Moscow, from time to time.

In September 2006, the couple had a son, Dennis, and in January 2007, the couple officially sealed their relationship with legal marriage.

“I visit Russia much more often than at home. But this does not in the least prevent me from communicating with my family, seeing my son, and so on. There is Skype, there is the Internet, there is a telephone, after all. And then there’s the plane: I boarded, two hours later and I’m home,” says Yuri.

In March 2013, they became parents for the second time when they had a daughter, Estella. It’s interesting that the godfather of the children was former manager“Tender May” Andrei Razin.

Together with his family, Yuri Shatunov periodically lives in Moscow, then in Germany, in the city of Munich.

The singer has been asked more than once why he doesn’t show his family or talk about it. The answer is always the same:

“I don’t want any people who are not the most mentally healthy people began to persecute loved ones. And my wife asked that she and her son be protected from such attention. Svetlana does not want her and her child to be recognized.

Plus, there are many inadequate people who constantly write in the same Odnoklassniki: “Yura, I love you, I want you.” I answer: “I have a family, children,” and they: “So what?” And why exploit the family? Am I lacking popularity?

In addition to playing music and raising children, the singer is seriously passionate about computer games and even became the champion of Russia in racing computer cars. Yuri Shatunov returned to children's hobby sports, loves hockey and diving. He also provides financial assistance to orphanages and often participates in charity concerts.

“They often ask: do you believe in love at first sight and is it even possible? Maybe. This is exactly how it happened for me. It was enough to just look at each other. We met in Germany on New Year's Day 2001. We met by chance at the hotel - and that’s it...” shares Yuri.

Despite the passion that quickly flared up between them, the future Shatunovs did not get married right away. This happened only in the seventh year of their acquaintance. By that time, their son Dennis had already been born and Yura became the Father. The newlyweds had their wedding in Germany, and that same year they decided to baptize their first-born. The baptism ceremony took place in the homeland of the spouses, in Sochi.

Svetlana’s sister and the singer’s longtime acquaintance, Andrei Razin, acted as godparents. In 2013, a new addition appeared in the Shatunov family - a daughter was born in Germany, who was named Estela. According to Yuri Shatunov, he is very lucky to have such a wonderful wife in his life, who gave him two charming children.

At one time, almost every girl was in love with a sweet-voiced boy with simple songs. And the group “Tender May” gave a crazy number of concerts. Of course, the biography of Yuri Shatunov had both light and dark stripes. But he is rightfully considered one of the most popular Soviet and Russian performers. Over the years of his creativity, Yuri Shatunov gave fans many songs that became hits for a long time.

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Yuri Shatunov was born on September 6, 1973 in the city of Kumertau. When the boy was three years old, his parents divorced and he stayed with his mother. Since 1984, Shatunov began studying at a boarding school in Kumertau due to his mother’s illness. At this time Yura was 11 years old. That same year, his mother dies of heart failure.

Already in 1986, Yura moved to Orenburg, to orphanage No. 2. It was there that he met the future songwriter of the group “Tender May,” poet and composer Sergei Kuznetsov.

At the age of 13, Yura began his first rehearsals and performances. Already in October of the same year, Kuznetsov wrote for him the first song “Evening cold winter”, and then the second - “Blizzard in a foreign city”. From that time on, the group “Tender May” began to perform successfully in their boarding school and the local cultural palace. In the first line-up of the group, in addition to Yuri Shatunov, there were Vyacheslav Ponomarev (bass guitar) and Sergey Serkov (light music). During this period, the main hits appeared - “White Roses”, “Gray Night”, “Melting Snow” and many others.

In 1988, the group had a significant event. “Tender May” recorded their first album at the local Children's Art Center. Sergei Kuznetsov immediately took the recorded tape to the railway station. Thanks to this, in the same 1988, the manager of the Mirage group, Andrei Razin, quite by chance heard the songs of “Tender May” on the train. Of course, he wanted to see the sweet-voiced boy who sounded on the recording. Razin got off at the nearest station and went in the opposite direction in search of Shatunov. In September, a new “Tender May” begins its existence in Moscow.

The group, and in particular Yuri Shatunov, had fabulous popularity among the public of different ages and both sexes. They gave 8 concerts a day, and the number of performances jumped over 40 per month.

In 1992, Shatunov left the group and went to Germany. There he received his education as a sound engineer. Yuri has a new producer, Arkady Kudryashov. In the same year, Shatunov recorded a solo album, “So May is Over,” which was later renamed “You Know.”

In 1992, Yuri had another important event - he performed for the first time as a solo performer with the song “Starry Night”. And all thanks to the fact that Alla Pugacheva invited Shatunov to participate in her “Christmas meetings.”

In the spring of 1994, PolyGram Russia offered to collaborate with the artist. As a result of quick negotiations, Yuri signed a contract with Boris Zosimov. Immediately, the artist began a lot of hard work, he shot videos for the songs “Starry Night”, “And Falling to His Knees”. In September 1994, Shatunov presented a new album called “Do You Remember.”

The singer released several more collections, and in 2001 the album “Remember May” was released. The main hit was the song “Forget”.

In 2002, Yuri received the “Song of the Year 2002” award for the hit “Grey Night”, and in 2009 a certificate for the song “Childhood”. Also in 2009, Yuri Shatunov went on a big tour of Russia in support of feature film"Tender May".



A few years later, in 2011, several new songs appeared on the singer’s website. Among them are the tracks “From White Roses” and “Tete-a-Tete”. In the same year, Shatunov received the “Song of the Year 2012” diploma for the super-hit “Grey Night”.



On February 23, 2015, at the anniversary ceremony of the Sound Track award, Yuri Shatunov received an award for his contribution to development Russian show business.

Shatunov’s personal life was stable. While in Germany, in 2000, he first met his future wife Svetlana and fell in love with her at first sight. 6 years later, in 2007, Svetlana gave birth to his son Dennis, and in 2007 they got married. In 2013, another joyful event occurred in the Shatunov family - their daughter Estella was born. Svetlana and Yuri have been together for more than 15 years, 11 of which were spent in marriage.

The name of Yuri Shatunov is known to everyone in our country. The group "Tender May", whose lead singer he was, simply thundered on all stages of the USSR in the late 80s. Rarely has anyone achieved such popularity as this group had; it was simply stunning. There were periods when musicians gave up to 8 (!) concerts a day and up to 40 concerts a week.
Yura Shatunov was born on September 6, 1973 in Bashkiria in the city of Kumertau. His parents were young and got married when his mother was 18 and his father was 23. The father was not too interested in the baby, and the first years of his life, Yura’s grandparents were raised by his maternal grandparents.
The parents did not live together for long; their marriage broke up three years later. The mother remarried, but new husband had problems with alcohol, little Yura disliked him and kept running away, as a rule, to his grandparents.

At the age of 7, Yura, like all children, went to school. And four years later, tragedy struck - his mother died of heart failure. Two months earlier, she transferred Yura to a boarding school, as she learned about the exacerbation of the disease. Since his own father did not need his son, his mother’s sister took custody of him. But Yura, who had a wayward character, decided to run away and wandered until the fall of next year in the Orenburg region and Bashkiria.
In November, a commission met in Orenburg that decided the boy’s fate. The director of an orphanage in the suburbs of Orenburg felt compassion for the boy and took him into her orphanage. There he became seriously interested in hockey and was a left winger.

Career of Yuri Shatunov

And a year later, the director of this orphanage was transferred to the same position in Orenburg, and Yura fled there after her. It was in Orenburg that he met Sergei Kuznetsov, who led an amateur art group. The boy began to study singing and together they recorded the first songs composed by Kuznetsov. This is how the story of creation began Happy May" They came up with the name of the group together, taking a line from a song.

Yuri Shatunov is a soloist in the group "Tender May"



At the New Year's party, Yura already performed several songs in the assembly hall of the boarding school.
A group gradually formed and included other performers. The group began to actively perform at discos and at the local House of Culture. Over the next year, the group recorded its main hits, which later brought it fame.
At the beginning of 1988, the group’s first album was recorded, which Kuznetsov sold to a record kiosk at the railway station, and in the fall Kuznetsov decided to go to Moscow. Yura followed him, escaping from the boarding school.



Andrei Razin, who at that time was producing the Mirage group, once listened to a purchased recording of “Tender May” on the train. He went to Orenburg to find a talented performer, but did not find him in the city. They later met in Moscow. Yura and the other guys from the group were transferred to a Moscow boarding school, where they lived for the first time.
In the fall of 1988, the group’s first big tour took place in the cities of the USSR. Soon, performances of “Tender May” began to be shown on central television. The popularity grew like a snowball.
And in March 1989, Kuznetsov left the group and Andrei Razin became its leader.
In October 1991, Yuri Shatunov left the group, deciding to pursue a solo career. After his departure the group broke up.



After leaving the group, Yura moved to live in Germany, trained as a sound engineer and began studio work. Over the next ten years he recorded several albums.



In 2009, the film “Tender May” was released, dedicated to the history of the group. During these years, Yuri actively toured Russia in support of the film, and today he is also a frequent participant in retro concerts.

Personal life of Yuri Shatunov

Now in family life he's quite happy. With your chosen one Svetlana he met back in 2000. He wanted the girl not to know about his popular past, but to treat him as to a simple guy. Sveta, who lived in Germany, really knew nothing about Tender May.



7 years after they met, they got married, and a year before that their son Dennis was born, and their daughter Estella was born in 13. Yuri lives mainly in Germany, but often comes to Russia for concerts.

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Yuri Shatunov was born in the city of Kumertau, which Soviet time belonged to the Bashkir Autonomous Republic. The parents of the future singer were Vasily Dmitrievich Klimenko and Vera Gavrilovna Shatunova, who got married when the girl was only eighteen years old. The father's attitude towards the child was extremely dismissive, so even Yuri received his surname from his mother's side. For the first four years, Yura lived with his grandparents on his mother’s side, then his parents divorced and he moved in with his mother.

The boy’s childhood can hardly be called happy and cloudless. After Vera Gavrilovna got married for the second time, Yura runs away from home for the first time, since his stepfather abused alcohol and arranged high-profile scandals. Later, escapes will become regular for the boy and become a habit.





When Yura was eleven years old, his mother began to serious problems with health. She places her son in a boarding school and goes to the hospital, where she dies two months later. Yura moves in with his aunt, but the already ingrained habit of running away from home takes over, and the boy wanders throughout Bashkiria and the Orenburg region for a year.

At the end of 1985, Shatunov was placed in an orphanage in the village of Akbulak, and a year later he was transferred to boarding school No. 2 in the city of Orenburg. This translation will be key in creative path future singer.

"Tender May"

The head of the music club at the boarding school was musician and composer Sergei Kuznetsov, who was looking for a talented teenager among the children of the orphanage to perform his songs. As a result, his choice fell on Yura Shatunov, although the boy himself did not want to study music at all, preferring noisy boyish games of hockey and football. However, by the end of 1986, the first songs “Cold Winter Evening” and “Blizzard in a Foreign City” were recorded, and the group “Tender May”, made up of orphans, began performing at discos and musical evenings at the local Palace of Culture.

Later songs appeared that became business card collective: “White Roses”, “Summer”, “Let There Be Night”, “Gray Night”, “Well, What Are You”, “Melting Snow”. In 1988, Sergei Kuznetsov recorded the group’s first magnetic album and began distributing the record through music kiosks on train station. Somehow the cassette gets to the manager, thundering throughout Soviet Union group "Mirage" to Andrei Razin, who liked the songs and boyish voice so much that he decided to make the vocalist a new star. Razin goes to Orenburg, but Shatunov went on the run again, so winning fans was postponed for another six months.

Nevertheless, the first teenage group in Soviet times quickly burst into the musical environment. The guys performed music in the Euro-disco style and were guided by their peers: the listeners of “Tender May” were teenagers from twelve to eighteen years old.

Best of the day

The group gave a huge number of concerts, performances sometimes reaching an amazing figure - eight a day. Moreover, 40-60 thousand spectators gathered at the concerts. The group recorded more than twenty albums and remained at the top of the charts for three years. But repeat the success of the first and most famous songs the team was never able to do so, and in 1991 Yuri Shatunov left “Tender May”.

Solo career

Instead of increasing his popularity on the wave of success, Yuri Shatunov leaves for Germany, where he receives an education as a sound engineer. He continues to record songs and releases his first solo album, “You Know,” although it was originally planned to be called “So May is Over.” But Shatunov does not resume concert activities, preferring to work exclusively in the studio

Later, Yuri resumes collaboration with composer Sergei Kuznetsov and on the second album, “Do You Remember,” which was released in 1994, more than half of the songs were written by him. In 1999, the album “Diary” was released in Germany, which is associated with a strange story of the theft of demo recordings.

Then, with regularity of four or five years, several new albums followed, which consisted half of old time-tested hits and half of new songs. During this period, the songs “Don’t be afraid”, “If you want...”, “It’s hard for me to speak”, “Days are passing” and others appeared.

Yuri Shatunov’s last full-length studio album, “I Believe...”, was released in 2012.

Since 2012, Yuri Shatunov has maintained a personal website where you can find news, performance schedules, videos from concerts, song recordings, a gallery of portraits of the musician drawn by fans, and even uniforms feedback for potential songwriters. Posted on the website official biography Shatunov until 2013. In addition, the musician maintains accounts on the social networks Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Facebook, on the microblogging service Twitter and has official channels on YouTube and iTunes.

In 2013, the musician released two new videos for the songs “Tete-a-tete” and “A Summer of Colors” in support of the album. In the same year, Yuri Shatunov received the “Song of the Year” award for the composition “A Summer of Colors”.

In December 2014, the singer became a guest of the “First Shift” program on Retro FM radio and visited Ivan Urgant on the “Evening Urgant” television program on Channel One.

Since 2014, the singer began working on a new album. Shatunov recorded and posted on the Internet the tracks “Trains”, “Dreams”, “Next to Her” and “Hair”. In May 2015, the singer presented the song “Odnoklassniki”, dedicated to the website of the same name. In August of the same year, the song “Star”, the lyrics of which were written by Sergei Kuznetsov, joined the already released singles.

On February 23, 2015, the musician received an award for his contribution to the development of Russian show business at the anniversary “Soundtrack” awards ceremony.

Personal life

Yuri Shatunov met his only wife, Svetlana, in Germany in December 2000. The girl had nothing to do with the musical environment and show business. Svetlana is a lawyer by profession. Moreover, he is an extremely non-public person. In September 2006, the couple had a son, Dennis, and in January 2007, the couple officially sealed their relationship with legal marriage.

In March 2013, they became parents for the second time when they had a daughter, Estella. It’s interesting that the children’s godfather was the former head of Tender May, Andrei Razin.

Together with his family, Yuri Shatunov periodically lives in Moscow, then in Germany, in the city of Munich.

In addition to playing music and raising children, the singer is seriously interested in computer games and even became the champion of Russia in racing computer cars. Yuri Shatunov returned to his childhood passion for sports, loves hockey and diving. He also provides financial assistance to orphanages and often participates in charity concerts.

Yuri Shatunov now

In January 2016, Yuri Shatunov recorded a video message to fans. The singer spoke about his creative plans and explained how to find him on social networks and official resources.

In November 2016, Yuri Shatunov performed in Moscow and Krasnodar at the “Discotheques of the 80s”, organized by Avtoradio.