Yuri Nikolayevich Galtsev (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Гальцев; born April 12, 1961, Kurgan) is a Russian entertainer and clownery, TV presenter, parodist, singer, theater, film and television actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2003).^[1] Art Director of the Raikin Variety Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Yuri Galtsev was born on April 12, 1961, in Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His father, Nikolai Afanasievich Galtsev (1935–2011), was a director of the reinforced concrete products factory, Honored Builder of the USSR.

In 1988, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, with a degree in Music Speech Estrada, where he made friends with Gennady Vetrov.^[2]

• Of Freaks and Men (1998) as Impresario
• Streets of Broken Lights (1998, 2000, 2012) as Yurik, singer, Eduard Zaslavsky
• Deadly Force (2000) as expert Yuri
• Empire under Attack (2000) as Alexander Iosifovich Frank
• Dead Man's Bluff (2005) as Sergei (voice)
• Yeralash (2006) as teacher of history
• Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors 92007) as Abag
• Hitler Goes Kaput! (2008) as Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller
• The Best Movie 2 (2009) as herald
• Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon (2012) as mayor^[3]
• Sheep and Wolves (2016) as Ziko (voice)
• Koschey: The Everlasting Story (2021) as Vodyanoy (voice)

• Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (May 19, 2003)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (March 30, 2020)
• Entry into the Gallery "Kurgans — the pride of the city" (June 28, 2017)

• Yuri Galtsev at IMDb
• Yuri Galtsev at the Last.fm