Early years: Stanislav Yarushin’s career in KVN
Stanislav Sergeevich Yarushin was born on January 14, 1981 in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk. In this place he grew up and formed as a person. Our today's hero received his secondary education at local school No. 46. Immediately he began performing for the first time in the local KVN team, the name of which is unlikely to be remembered by anyone now.
Stanislav Yarushin - star of the TV series Univer
It is very noteworthy that the father of our today’s hero, Sergei Valentinovich, was also actively interested in humor. Surprisingly, the leader of that very school KVN team was Yarushin Sr.
Perhaps it was thanks to his participation that Stanislav began to become seriously interested in humor. After graduating from high school, he entered the Chelyabinsk State Agricultural Engineering University, where he immediately became part of the local KVN team “Tear Line”. This team performed in some of the “junior” leagues of the Cheerful and Resourceful Club, but did not find great fame.
Despite this, Stanislav Yarushin always stood out compared to his other teammates. His performance was appreciated by his senior colleagues, and at one point the young comedian found himself in the Chelyabinsk national team “Countrymen”. At first, the team performed under this name, but the designated team achieved its greatest success after merging with the team of neighboring Magnitogorsk. As a result of the merger, the “District City” team appeared on the KVN map, which instantly moved to a leading position in the Club of the Merry and Resourceful.
In 1999, Stanislav Yarushin and his teammates managed to become champions of the KVN First League and earn the right to play in the club’s Major League. From that moment on, our today's hero became well known among fans of the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful. The “County City” team quickly rose to a leading position in the KVN world. Therefore, awards and titles began to fall on the comedians one after another. “Small KiViN”, “Big KiViN in Light”, “Summer Cup”, as well as the title of champion of the KVN Major League (2002) - all these prizes are just a small fraction of the success of the team from Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk.
After this, the “District City” actually ceased to exist for a long time. However, Stanislav Yarushin did not leave the club's games. In 2003, our today's hero became the leader and ideological inspirer of a new Chelyabinsk team - LUNA ("Persons of Ural Nationality"). Throughout its history, the team performed very brightly, but still failed to win gold medals in the Major League. The highest achievement in the team's history was second place in the 2006 season.
Stanislav Yarushin: “Alena thought that I was such a major”
He is associated primarily with Anton Martynov from Univer and sincerely believe that Stanislav Yarushin, like his serial hero, is a kind of major, to whom all the blessings of the world fall on his head at his first desire. However, in real life, the actor is not at all like Anton, and everything that he achieved, he achieved on his own. But I am still very grateful to Univer. After all, he even met his wife thanks to this series.
— Stanislav, you are originally from Chelyabinsk. Did the desire to move to Moscow and become an actor appear in your youth?
- There was no such thing. I played hockey professionally until I was seventeen. He entered the university (it was the Chelyabinsk State Agricultural Engineering University) as a hockey player. Therefore, thoughts about the future were connected specifically with sports: I hoped that maybe some Moscow team would notice me. But I never really worried about it. As it will be, so it will be.
— Where do boys usually go after school in Chelyabinsk?
— In Ancient Sparta, as you know, ugly and sick boys were thrown from a cliff. So, we have a joke that if a boy does not know how to play hockey, he is thrown from the Ural Mountains. But in reality, few people stay in Chelyabinsk. Everyone is leaving there: the environment is bad.
— But in the end you didn’t get along with hockey, but you did with KVN.
— I always loved watching KVN on TV. I thought: how good it is there, how fun it is... I really wanted to go there. Time passed and I ended up there. And then I realized that this was not only good, but also very difficult. Unreal mode. Probably those overloads are now affecting me.
From an early age, our hero had another hobby - music.
Photo: personal archive of Stanislav Yarushin
— When did KVN appear in your life?
— Back in my school years. I also took part in theatrical productions. For me, hockey and creativity went in parallel. I remember sitting in the locker room, getting ready for the match, all my thoughts were about the game, and my dad asked me: “Do you want to perform at the competition for young vocalists?” And I’m going through puberty, so I don’t think so: “Do you want the guys in the locker room to call me a woman?..” But I performed, it was shown throughout the Chelyabinsk region. I took second place. By the way, the guys appreciated my performance. I remember when I entered the locker room, everyone started clapping - just like in the movies. Respect, in a word! After all, in those years, if you are on TV, that’s all, the highest degree of recognition! So at some point my dad told me to stop playing hockey, my place was on stage. Already in my first year at the institute, I was selected to the KVN team as a vocalist.
— Did you finally graduate from university?
- No. Actually, I went there because of my mother. She insisted that I have a technical education: that’s how Soviet people were raised, and it seemed important to get a diploma. And so I sat at the university for the first two years and did not understand what I was studying there. Theory and production of vegetation, some animal husbandry... I was supposed to become an agricultural mechanical engineer. Damn it, where am I supposed to go with this?.. I finished the first year without a C: I still had school subjects. And when I began to delve deeper into rural life... I got a license to drive a tractor. And I didn’t understand why.
— When did you decide that you didn’t want to study anymore?
— In 2001–2002, when the “District City N” team, in which I participated, became mega-popular. We toured extensively throughout Russia. This was the point of no return. All! I realized: what a university - I was enrolled there for seven years, but did not receive a diploma. Guys from the young Kaveen generation met me and said that they were studying in the same group as me. I replied that I was pleased, but I never appeared there.
And his artistic abilities brought him to KVN
Photo: personal archive of Stanislav Yarushin
— Kaveen players have always been popular. Did that flatter you?
- Yes, and it didn’t take me quite in that direction. When fame comes in your twenties, you are recognized on the streets, not everyone manages to adequately survive this period. I was blown away by the cuckoo. I even became an arrogant type towards my parents. Well, we managed to stop in time. Father helped. He, a teacher of history, psychology, social studies, just talked to me. But it’s good that it hit me at twenty-one. I have seen those who took off at the age of forty or fifty, and even with the mentality of the nineties. That's where the trouble is!
— How did you get to Univer?
— The guys who produced and wrote the script for “Univer” are my friends, KVN members from my city. They said there was a character in a twenty-episode series that they thought would suit me. But we have the concept of “friendship”, and there is the concept of “work”. Therefore, we immediately agreed: I am going through the casting on a general basis. I passed the casting and everything worked out. These twenty episodes have been going on for several years...
— Have you completed any acting courses?
- No. In 2003, maybe 2004, I entered GITIS, but did not study. It was a correspondence department, a course by Viktor Rakov. Probably what stopped me at that moment was the fact that I am not from a rich family. My parents earned money, we were not poor, but I helped them. Therefore, the Kavehan story was spinning in my head, from which it was scary to leave: tours, finances... And if I started studying, I would have lost everything.
In the popular TV series “Univer” Stanislav played major Anton
Photo: press materials
- But do you want to go beyond this established image? Play for some venerable director in a feature film?
— I have a play “The Weasel.” This is an enterprise where I play a killer. It was based on a French play. So, the audience says that they like to see me in a different role. It’s clear that I still have the stigma of being a comedian. But I can say that I had offers and auditions for dramatic stories. And they should have happened, but for one reason or another it didn’t work out. Of course, I would like to play in some unexpected character. In the meantime, in most cases they send scripts for lightweight comedies - something that I have already done millions of times. I refuse.
— So you don’t run after money?
- No way. For what?..
- You can afford it. Your rear is now covered by Univer...
- Yes, he will be filming for a long time. But I also think about business projects that are not related to the film industry. I can’t disclose details yet. But I don’t understand the actors I know who sit and wait to be invited to some project. I ask them: why not come up with something completely different?
— By the way, about something else. You've also started singing, haven't you?
“I’ve been singing since I was in school.” I also had a group in Chelyabinsk. I suggested that the boys go to Moscow, but they did not dare to move from their homes - they sang “Flying Gait” in restaurants. They were afraid of losing their stable income. And I finally fulfilled my childhood dream. Last year he released a solo disc. I will not hide: my media exposure played a role. But I'm very happy.
Last year Yarushin released a disc with his songs and shot a music video. He also tours with concerts throughout Russia
Photo: personal archive of Stanislav Yarushin
- What are you going to eat?
— Mostly my own songs, also my dad’s songs: he created them when I was eighteen or twenty years old. Ilya Zudin, the lead singer of the Dynamite group, wrote me several things. I don’t perform cover versions - I don’t like them, I don’t understand them.
—Are you touring?
- Certainly. The plan is to create a band whose musicians would play only with me. And this is not jealousy, we just have a good team now. We play in Moscow, Krasnodar, Chelyabinsk... I like what I do, I have no patrons, I don’t owe anyone anything, no one imposes their tastes on me musically. The audience, it seems to me, sees that I am not artificial. When there are no concerts for a long time, I get nervous when I go on stage. But we were so hot at the last concert that... Sometimes thoughts come: what am I doing, who needs this? But after such meetings with the audience, I understand that I want to live creatively.
- What about hockey?
— I continue to play hockey. But it doesn’t bring me any money. For me, this is exclusively an opportunity to keep fit and have a healthy lifestyle. I like it. I was buzzing during the Kavehan years, now all my free time is the gym and family.
Stanislav met his future wife Elena on the set of the TV series “Univer”
Photo: personal archive of Stanislav Yarushin
- Let's talk about her. You are a married man, the father of a family (Stanislav came to the interview with his daughter, who bravely sat through the entire time we talked - and it took more than an hour. - Author's note.) Tell me how you met your wife.
“Everything turned out beautifully for us.” We met on the set of the TV series “Univer”. Alena came to the site to visit her friend - on some business. She was even persuaded to act as an extra. On the first day, I must admit, I didn’t even pay attention to her. And when she appeared on the second day to pick up something, my eyes were already opened. I realized: this is fate. A week later we started living together. A month later, on New Year's Day, I proposed. As I remember now: on January 2, Alena flew home to Tomsk. And I went with friends to continue celebrating the New Year at a country house. But after a couple of hours I realized that I couldn’t live without her. And right there in my ski suit, with my passport in my hands, I dropped everything and rushed to the airport. Of course, there are no tickets, and check-in for the flight is completed. But the woman at the counter recognized me from KVN. She said she would try to help. A ticket was discovered - however, the cost was as much as eighty thousand rubles. Okay, I just had a hundred thousand on my card. They let me onto the plane. I'm flying completely alone in business class. I come to Alena, sleep, come to my senses after the New Year's parties, and then propose to her in front of the whole family. Everyone agrees. It turns out that Alena’s mother knew me from KVN. But Alena herself didn’t watch it. But for some reason I thought that I was such a big deal. And I kept worrying that they had a toilet on the street... And I have a mother from a village near Anapa, I lived the same way, I’m not used to it. And I met the woman at the counter who helped me find a ticket about a year ago. I thanked her very much and told her that Alena and I have two children. Since then we have been communicating.
- But Alena’s family had no prejudices against you? Still, public people, in the understanding of many, are not the best party...
- No, there was nothing like that from Alena’s family. But my dad “performed” at the wedding. “Alain, do you understand who you are marrying?” - he asked my future wife. "Understand!" - Alena answered firmly. I appreciate my wife's trust. Yes, I have fans, but so what? It’s important how I behave towards them. There are such fans that men, pah-pah-pah, leave the family. And sometimes it’s adequate. I keep everyone at a distance. If a person is pleasant, not crazy, subordinately tactful, I calmly start communicating and then look further. Someone starts to rot and play around - I immediately break off relations with such people. Of course, there are times when fans come running up on the street. I remember one of them, with wild eyes, grabbed the phone from my hands and started shouting: “Take a photo with me!” I was taken aback. All he asked was how old he was. He answered that it was nineteen. But in general I feel shy when people recognize me. I try not to appear in crowded places.
— You and Alena have two children, Stefania and Yaroslav. The eldest child is a daughter. I wasn’t worried that a girl was born first: after all, for some reason many men dream of an heir?..
— I just wanted a daughter. I wanted it madly. And the second - a boy. We have an excellent doctor Lev Lazarevich Nemirovsky. He is our family friend. Before the first birth, we tell him: we want a girl. Chick! Happened. Then - to him: we want a boy. Chick! Happened. That’s what I told him: either he really is a genius in his field, or he’s just getting lucky. He and I laugh about this. My friends then went to see him, and everything they planned happened. I'm already thinking about a third child. But Alena took a time out for now. He says he wants to live for himself a little. Otherwise, everything worked out quickly for us in five years: a week later we began to live together, a month later I proposed, in the summer of the same year we got married, and at the wedding she was already pregnant. Therefore, the celebration was not particularly celebrated. None of my friends really knew. I called this morning and said that I was getting married. They replied: “What a moron! Why didn’t you say it before?!” (Moron - in a good way.) So many of those who were invited were unable to attend. But I think when Alena and I reach a more serious relationship before God, then we’ll throw something up. Women need a good wedding. And I, respecting my wife, will definitely do this.
Now they have two children: Stefania and Yaroslav
Photo: personal archive of Stanislav Yarushin
— Did the birth of your daughter change you?
- Very. I remember she was born, and the first temperature - thirty-seven - brought us to hysterics. Alena is crying, I’m rushing around, calling my friends, rushing somewhere... Traffic jams... We lived outside the city then, in Shchelkovo. Now the second child has a temperature of forty - we are both calm. Everything comes with experience. I think when the first child is born, all parents behave in much the same way. They panic even over small things. It's unpleasant when your baby is sick. There were situations - and the two of us were in the hospital. But nothing, this is life.
— Is it already clear what children gravitate towards? What do they like to do?
- The little one, he is now two and a half years old, I have a guy with character. I want to become a hockey player. Let's see. The main thing is to have something to do. The street, of course, should be present, but in moderation. For me it was normal: football, hockey... There were fights. But bad habits passed me by. And now there is a lot of this, especially in Moscow. I'm afraid for my son. When parties and clubs start, it seems to me that I will go there myself. In any case, I will know all the passwords on Instagram. (Laughs.)
— What are your methods of raising your family?
- No matter how trite it sounds, carrot and stick. The children know that when it comes to business, I can even give you a slap on the head. I teach Yarik to fight back. We thought Stefania would be jealous when her brother arrived. But, fortunately, this did not happen. They love each other very much. Yarik defends Stefania. Sometimes, however, they fight among themselves. But this is normal.
— Do you have enough time to educate?
- Trying. It happens, of course, that I am busy. But on Saturday I am always with my family. I even go to children's programs. It seems to me that the main thing in education is not to overload a child with information, not to make him a child prodigy. And then everything will be harmonious. During the years that we have been together, Alena does not work, but takes care of her family and household chores. Therefore, children are under the constant supervision of their mother.
Career after KVN, filmography of Stanislav Yarushin
Having managed to earn a name for himself over the years of performing in the Merry and Resourceful Club, Stanislav Yarushin did not get lost even after the end of his KVN career. For some time, our today's hero worked on writing jokes for other teams and performers. However, in 2008, Stanislav received an offer to become part of a new project. Together with another KVN player Sangadzhi Tarbaev, he began hosting the entertainment program “Color of the Nation” on the STS channel.
This TV show was only the first work experience for a talented guy. In May 2009, Stanislav Yarushin appeared as part of the musical and humorous program “Everything Our Way,” and a few months later he also began to host, together with Tatyana Arno, Irena Ponaroshka and some other presenters, the information and entertainment project “Big City.”
In September 2010, Stanislav Yarushin also joined the humorous show “Yesterday live”, which became a new important stage in his life and career.
In 2011, the talented native of Chelyabinsk also joined the cast of the youth series “Univer”. As part of this project, he first tried himself as a professional actor. He worked with such actors as Ararat Keshchyan, Maria Kozhevnikova, Vitaly Gogunsky, Andrey Gaidulyan and others. “First Pancake” turned out to be quite successful, and therefore soon our today’s hero became a permanent participant in the youth sitcom. It is very noteworthy that Stanislav Yarushin also worked on the creation of this series as a screenwriter (in company with some other former members of the KVN “LUNA” team).
Despite the initial role of an antagonist, his character quickly fell in love with the audience. Thanks to this, Stas very soon became one of the regular actors in the series. Subsequently, Yarushin also took part in the new season of the project - “Univer. New dorm”, and also starred in several episodes of the spin-off of the series – the show “SASATANYA”.
Television work
Stas Yarushin’s career as a TV presenter began in 2008, when he was a co-host in the game show “Color of the Nation” along with another KVN player, Sangadzhi Tarbaev. In 2009, his work continued in another project of the STS channel, the musical parody program “Everything Our Way.” In the same year, Stas hosted a column in the Big City program, and in 2010 he participated in the humorous show Yesterday Live. Then came the acting peak in his career - filming in the series “Univer”, where the hero Yarushin appears in the final episodes and portrays the careless son of an oligarch, sent by his father to live in a dormitory for poor academic performance. Anton Martynov organically fit into the composition of the residents of the university block and became one of the three main characters who moved to the new dorm: after the end of filming of the first series, a new project was opened, in which Stas Yarushin also took part - “Univer. New Dorm", which can be watched in the evening on TNT.
Stanislav Yarushin currently
Stanislav Yarushin is currently filming new seasons of the sitcom. In addition, it is already known that in 2014, our today’s hero should appear in another series - “General Sobolev”. What this project will be like is currently unknown.
Actor Stanislav Yarushin with his wife
As for other professional endeavors, in this regard it is worth noting the fact that Stanislav Yarushin currently acts as the frontman of the Moscow basketball team CSKA. In this capacity, he often appears at club games.
In addition to everything else, in recent years the famous showman has also been working as a voice artist (“Monsters University”, etc.).
Personal life of Stanislav Yarushin
Even during his KVN career, Stanislav met the daughter of the mayor of Kopeysk, Polina Biserova, at the club. At that time, Yarushin was considered one of the most eligible bachelors of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region. Therefore, it was not difficult to gain the girl’s favor. The lovers dated for a long time, and after that they legalized their relationship.
Subsequently, reports appeared in the press that this marriage was allegedly concluded for convenience. However, there is no exact evidence of this.
One way or another, after registering the marriage, the lovers did not live together for long. After the divorce, Yarushin also did not grieve much, and therefore very soon found himself a new passion. The actor's beloved name was Alena. After a short romance, the lovers got married. Currently, Alena and Stanislav have a daughter together, Stefania.
Stas Yarushin: I met my wife thanks to Univer
The career of Stas Yarushin (35), like many other famous showmen, began with KVN. He played for the teams " Uyezdny Gorod " and " Persons of Ural Nationality ". But, it turns out, he got there not for his sparkling sense of humor (although this cannot be taken away from Yarushin), but for his vocal abilities: “In my first year at the institute, I went on stage and sang a song. That’s how the local KVN team drew attention to me. I’ve been singing since I was 13 years old, and I shot my first video when I was 15. And when I played in KVN, I even tried to create a pop group. But nothing came of it. And now, apparently, my time has come! This year I assembled a team of musicians and released an album as a solo artist. Music is something new, something not yet explored .”
But Yarushin is not going to give up filming in TV series and movies. “I have a current contract with Comedy Club Production and the TV series “Univer,” so we will see it through to the end: we must film another 60 episodes. And then I will think in which direction to move next. I understand that many people think that this is a stigma and that for everyone I am Antokha Martynov from Univer. But when you meet competent and adequate people, they know perfectly well that you are actor Stas Yarushin.”
Coat, sweater, jeans, Strellson; boots, Alberto Guardiani
Sweater, Windsor; shirt, Aeronautica Miliare; trousers, Trussardi; Jimmy Choo shoes; glasses, Ray Ban
After KVN, Stas moved to Moscow and immediately started working, and a little later he brought his first wife here, but a year later they fled. But Stas doesn’t regret anything. Stas and his second wife Alena have been together for five years: they met on the set of the TV series “Univer”. “She wasn’t filming, she just came to the set to visit her friend. I was discussing something with the director, and she walked past. It was probably love at first sight ." Stas found Alena’s phone number and called her that same evening: “We chatted until six in the morning! From the conversation, I immediately realized: this is mine. And the very next day we met.” The secret of Yarushin’s strong marriage is a mystery to himself: “It seems to me that we need attention, we need to forgive and understand each other more often, because the stamp in the passport still means nothing, at least for me. If you want to go through life with this person, then go with him. But tying yourself to yourself and forcing your partner to do what you want from him is wrong. I would like people to be wiser in marriages, but, unfortunately, this wisdom is not always manifested.”
Stas and Alena are raising two children: daughter Stefania is four years old, and son Yaroslav is two. “ I am a strict father . And, no matter how trite it may sound, I use the whip method. Because I know that if you don’t hit me in the butt now, you will miss me, and it will get worse in the future,” Yarushin shares his secrets of education. – We love in moderation, we scold in moderation. I think this is correct. We try to keep a tight rein on our family.” There are also things in life that he regrets. But Stas is sure that people learn from their mistakes: “Why does a person become wiser? Because with age he already knows which mistakes should not be repeated. I regret that somewhere I didn’t do something, somewhere I didn’t say something, somewhere, on the contrary, I said too much. It seems to me that even psychologically you can encounter such mistakes every day; you drive and think: “Oh, I should have done it differently.” Or an unpleasant aftertaste remains. But there is no need to regret, we need to live and move forward.”
Yarushin says with confidence that he can call himself a happy person. But he adds: “ If you ask what happiness is, I will never tell you: it’s some kind of vague concept .” Stas is sure that he doesn’t need much to be happy: “When your family is nearby and everyone is doing well. Happiness is when I’m in a moronic mood, but I don’t care, and I smile. In these seconds I become happy and don’t think about anything.”
Stas has more than enough energy: “In the near future, I will continue filming the TV series “Univer,” and I’m working hard on recording a second music album.” And the grandiose plans include more creativity, popularization of the musical project and tours around the country, as well as a big movie. Stas has been receiving quite lucrative offers for a long time, but he refuses to film. He says he has no desire to spoil his career with bad roles: “I always want to go to a big movie. This is not even ambition, but simply desire. I want to play in some kind of drama. For example, I played a killer in the play “The Weasel.” This is a serious role, not a comedy character at all. But I don’t want to look too far. This is life, no one knows what will happen tomorrow .”
Georgy Kardava. Style: Lusine Avetisyan. Producer: Oksana Shabanova
