- Survivor of the Siege of Leningrad during WWII.
- Arguably he was the most famous actor in the Soviet Union.
- Minutes after Mikhail Vartanov received the Russian Academy Award for Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992), on the same stage presenter Yuri Nikulin received a huge tree-shaped cake as he had just turned 71 that day; Yuriy Nikulin, one of the greatest Soviet comedians, was admired by one of the greatest Soviet filmmakers Sergei Paradjanov, the subject of Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
- Father of Maksim Nikulin
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