Yuri Mamin was born on May 8, 1946 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR as Yuri Borisovich Mamin. He is a director and writer, known for Okno v Parizh (1993), Russkiye strashilki (2003) and Ne dumay pro belykh obezyan (2008). He is married to Lyudmila Samokhvalova. They have one child.