Where Was Nureyev Born

Rudolf Nureyev, in full Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev, (born March 17, 1938, Irkutsk, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Where did Rudolf Nureyev grow up?

Nureyev was born in 1938, and, like most Soviet citizens who didn’t starve to death in the years that followed, he almost did. He grew up in Ufa, a small town in the republic of Bashkiria. The family was Tatar, and poor—the father was a security guard in a factory.

What did Nureyev die from?

Michel Canesi, Rudolf Nureyev’s doctor for the last nine years, announced today that the dancer and choreographer, who died in a suburban Paris hospital on Jan. 6, had had AIDS.