Yuri was a Russian soldier who was held captive at the Dusterstadt fortress in 1916. During an escape attempt, he fell into the Danube River and was killed.
Biography[]
In 1914, Yuri was taken prisoner and held at Dusterstadt on the banks of the Danube River in Germany. Although Yuri and Leonid, a fellow captive, came up with several escape plans, for two years the Russians weaved a rope out of the string from the prisoners' mail.[1]
When Indiana Jones arrived in 1916, Yuri and Leonid informed him of their escape attempt in the belief that as all Americans were cowboys, Jones was the ideal candidate to wield their rope and lasso a spike on the building opposite which would provide a bridge over the steep drop so they could make their break for freedom.[1]
Jones agreed to help but during their escape attempt the rope snapped as the Russian pair were making their way across it and Yuri and Leonid fell to their deaths in the waters of the Danube.[1]
Legacy[]
The next day, Dusterstadt commander Otto Richter presented Yuri and Leonid's bodies to the inmates as proof that the prison was inescapable.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Yuri was played by James Nesbitt in "Germany, Mid-August 1916".[1]