Yuri Stepanov was a popular Russian actor of film and theatre. He was born Yuri Konstantinovich Stepanov on June 7, 1967, in the village of Rysyevo, Irkutsk province, Russia. His father, Konstantin Stepanov, was director of a Soviet collective farm in Siberia. His mother was a schoolteacher. Young Yuri Stepanov grew up in rural Siberia. There he ...
He and his wife, Russian costume designer Irina Sorokina, now a widow, have three sons. The older two are Konstantin and Dmitriy, who were both born in the 2000s. Irina was in her eighth month of pregnancy when Yuriy died in an automobile accident on March 3, 2010. Just under four weeks later, on March 30, 2010, she gave birth to their third son, Yuriy, who she named in honor of his late father.