Yuri Anatoleyvich Bykov (Russian: Ю́рий Анато́льевич Бы́ков; born August 15, 1981) is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the films The Major, The Fool and the TV series The Method.
Yuri Bykov was born on August 15, 1981 in Novomichurinsk, Ryazan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. First he lived with his parents in a trailer. Bykov's father was a chauffeur by profession, his mother worked at the Novomichurinsky plant of large-panel housing construction. Around 1987 his father left for Tyumen and he did not see him again. Approximately for 12 years, Bykov lived only with his mother. Later, the mother remarried, the stepfather was employed as a crane operator at a power plant. Bykov grew up in poverty. His mother would force him to steal food from the neighbours lot.
He was fond of literature, wrote stories and poems in a local newspaper, went to music school, played in music groups, worked as an arranger in a local studio. He was a good student at school, but from the ninth grade his grades dropped due to the loss of interest in studies and focus on creativity.