Yuri Gorny gained popularity by demonstrating in public his own phenomenal abilities. He always called his numbers psychological studies. Among his crown representations - shooting blindly from a pistol at targets for sound, performing up to six tasks at the same time, searching for a needle in the auditorium.
Biography: early years
Yuri Gavrilovich Gorny (real name - Yashkov) was born on August 27, 1941 in the Altai village of Lokot. The war was in full swing. By that time, the Russian army suffered a series of defeats and began a retreat. Yuri's early childhood was in the most difficult period for the country. In an interview, he admitted that that time left an imprint on his whole future life.
Yuri grew up an ordinary guy, his unique abilities in childhood did not show up. Like many Soviet children in the post-war period, he was actively involved in sports. Yuri attended three sections at once: volleyball, skiing, and athletics. He knew all the champions and prize-winners of the Union by name, remembered the score in various matches.
As a teenager, Yuri became interested in hypnosis and the possibilities of human consciousness. In those years, newspapers began to publish articles about the famous Rosa Kuleshova and Wolf Messing. Yuri was delighted with their unique gift.
While studying at the Omsk Institute of Physical Education, he accidentally met Ilya Tseytlin. He traveled to Soviet cities as an artist of the original genre. Zeitlin arranged hypnosis sessions on stage. It was he who became the first teacher for Yuri. He supplied him with literature and showed several tricks. The first viewers of Yuri were classmates who enthusiastically looked at the abilities of his friend.
At debut performances, Yuri showed mostly hypnotic numbers. He later mastered reading thoughts.
Career
After the institute, Yuri worked in several Barnaul sports societies, including Harvest, Labor, Vodnik. In the latter, he presided. Once, within its walls, he organized his own performance, without notifying superior persons. After that, he had to leave Vodnik.
Yuri went to the local philharmonic society, where he was allowed to arrange performances at his own risk. His genre in those years balanced between the permitted and the forbidden. Then a sonorous pseudonym appeared - Mountain.
His popularity grew with each new presentation. Soon the police became interested in him and started hunting for him. The mountain was caught for three years, but was never caught. Soon he moved to neighboring Kazakhstan, where he was able to work relatively calmly.
Gorny openly said that he was not a psychic, but an artist. His unusual abilities opened up thanks to his training. He did not consider them a gift from above.
Gorny was skeptical of the abilities of other phenomenal personalities, including Wolf Messing, Vladimir Kashpirovsky, Alan Chumak, Wang. He did consider the famous predictions of the latter to be the machinations of KGB officers. Yuri is a member of the Commission on the fight against pseudoscience at the RAS.
