Mikhail Yurievich Yakovlev
Editor. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1961. Born on September 7, 1929, in the city of Namangan, Uzbek SSR, in a family of a civil servant. From the age of seven, he was raised in an orphanage. In 1942, he was sent to study at the Moscow Military Music School for Cadets of the Soviet Army. After graduating, from 1945 to 1952, he served on military ships in the city of Sevastopol. He completed his secondary education independently and in 1951 entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in the literary and editorial department. After being discharged from service, he arrived in Frunze in 1952 and began working as a proofreader for the newspaper "Soviet Kyrgyzstan." From 1954 to 1958, he headed a department at the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolets of Kyrgyzstan" while simultaneously studying part-time at the journalism faculty of the Kazakh State University (graduated in 1960). From 1958 to 1960, he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper "Soviet Sport" in the Kyrgyz SSR. Since January 1961, he moved to the Committee for Radio Broadcasting and Television under the Council of Ministers of the Kyrgyz SSR as the chief editor of the youth editorial office.
From 1965 to 1969, he was the chief editor of the Kyrgyz Television Studio. Since 1970, he has been a member of the script and editorial board of the newly organized studio "Kyrgyztelefilm." Under the editorship of M. Yakovlev, four feature-length and dozens of short documentary and artistic films were released — "When Shadows Retreat" (1972) by U. Tokombaev, "Soviet Kyrgyzstan: From Congress to Congress" (1975); "Gift" (1974) by E. Orozbaev; "My Tursun-Apa" (1970), "The Commissioner Testifies" (1971), "Kerez" (1973), "Following the Fairy Tale" (1974), and others.
M. Yakovlev, as a director, filmed the essays "Russia — My Homeland" (1964), "Trial" (1971), "Bread Producers" (1975), "If Not Me, Then Who?" (1977), "If You Are a Working Person" (1978), "I Want to Live" (1979).
Awards — medals "For Victory over Fascist Germany" (1945), "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin" (1970).
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1977.
