Йыван Кырля
Йыван Кырля (Кирилл Иванович Иванов) [4(17).3.1909 — 1943],
марийский сов. поэт и киноактёр.
Родился в дер. Купсола, ныне Сернурского
района Марийской АССР. Исполнял роль
Мустафы в первом сов. звуковом кинофильме
"Путёвка в жизнь" (1931). Начал
печататься в 1929. В 1931 вместе с Олык Ипаем
опубликовал сборник стихов "Мы —
ударники". В 1932 вышел сборник "Голос
революции я пою", в 1935 — "День
рождения".
Yvan Kyrlya (real name Kirill
Ivanovich Ivanov) (Russian: Йыва́н
Кы́рля; 17 March 1909 – July , 1943, Moscow)
was a Mari Soviet actor and poet, famous for his role of Mustafa Fert
in the first Soviet sound film Road to Life (Putyovka v
zhizn) (1931).
Born into a poor peasant family, the boy had to work as
a farm labourer, a herdsman, and also beg. In autumn of 1926 the
Komsomol Committee of Mari Autonomous Region assigned him to study at
workers' courses in Kazan University. Noticing his artistic gift
the teachers gave him an assignment to the Actor’s Department of
the State Cinematography School in 1929.
Among the students of ethnic studios Yuvan was engaged
in crowd scenes during production of the first Soviet sound feature
film Road to Life. After watching its first episode the film
director Nikolai Ekk took notice of the young actor and cast him for
the role of the waifs’ leader Mustafa.
After graduation the actor worked at the Vostokfilm
Studio; in 1934-1936 he played the lama in Buddha’s Vicar by
director Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov. In 1937 Yuvan Kyrlya moved
toYoshkar-Ola, the capital of Mari-El, to play in the Mari State
Drama Theatre. In addition to his actor’s talent Yuvan Kyrlya was
also a poet. Three books of his poetry saw the light in his lifetime.
Little is known about the last years of his life. There
is a version that on 23 April 1937 he was arrested and sentenced to
10 years on charge of the "counter-revolutionary activity”.
According to official data, Yuvan Kyrlya died in one of the Ural
prison camps in July 1943.
One of the streets of Ioshkar Ola was named after Yuvan
Kyrlya in March 1969.