Yuri Shumsky was born on November 17, 1887 in Tiraspol, Tiraspol uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Moldova]. He was an actor, known for
The Victors and the Vanquished (1949),
Bennie the Howl (1927) and
Vasya reformator (1926). He died on June 7, 1954 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine].